Restraint-Free Care: Individualized Approaches for Frail Elders - Softcover

Strumpf, PhD Neville

9780826112156: Restraint-Free Care: Individualized Approaches for Frail Elders

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0826112153 ISBN 13: 9780826112156

Publisher: Springer Publishing Company, 1998

This book is designed to help clinicians, administrators, students, and families attain the goal of restraint-free care of the elderly.

Written by leading experts in the field, the book contains specific strategies for understanding behavior, making constructive changes in the individual's environment, and managing the risk of falls and interference with necessary treatments. It is organized in outline form to highlight critical material and to be readily adaptable as a quick reference.

The authors use individualized care as the book's underlying philosophy. The goals of individualized care include promoting comfort and safety, optimizing function and independence, and achieving the greatest possible quality of life. Such care requires clinicians to make sense of behavior rather than to control responses of clients.

Numerous case studies, tables, and figures illustrate this practical and information-packed manual. Lists of resources are also included.

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About the Author:

Lois K. Evans is Viola MacInnes/Independence Professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing where she facilitated the development of the School's network of community based nursing practices - the Penn Nursing Network and provided leadership for the School's evolving agenda to integrate its missions for research, education and clinical care. She also co-directed the Penn-Macy Initiative to Advance Academic Nursing Practice. In addition to models of health care, Dr. Evans research interests focus on individualized care for frail elders, including restraint reduction and behavior in dementia; culture, environments, and quality of care and quality of life in nursing homes, and recognition and management of depression in older adults. She has received numerous awards for her research on individualized care and restraint use with frail elders and is an elected Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing and the Gerontological Society of America. Dr. Evans is Co-Director of the School's Center for Gerontologic Nursing Science and the John A. Hartford Center o f Geriatric Nursing Excellence, Chairs the Family and Community Health Division, Co-Directs the Delaware Valley Geriatric Education Center and teaches in the geropsychiatric graduate nursing program.

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