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Aging in Place

Designing, Adapting, and Enhancing the Home Environment

By: Ellen D Taira,Jodi Carlson

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Aging in Place

Designing, Adapting, and Enhancing the Home Environment

By: Ellen D Taira,Jodi Carlson

Provide a comfortable living environment for the aging! Aging in Place: Designing, Adapting, and Enhancing the Home Environment gives you a complete examination of current trends in adaptive home designs for older adults. As a therapist, designer, architect, builder, home planner, social worker, community organizer, or gerontologist, Aging in Place will show you innovative home designs and studies for creating environments that offer optimal living for aging adults. Complete with diagrams, floor plans, and tables, Aging in Place helps you to improve the quality of life for the elderly by offering them state-of-the-art designs that encourage independence and dignity. This unique and exciting book covers topics such as universal design which strives to create everyday environments and products like door handles and light switches that are usable by all people to the greatest extent possible, regardless of age or ability. Aging in Place will also show you how to: use follow-up visits by occupational therapists to ensure successful use of home modifications create environments that are helpful for vision rehabilitation by using controlled lighting and color schemes evaluate the quality of life for elderly people living in personal dwellings, specialized housing, and nursing homes explore architectural barriers and the uses of helping devices for elderly people examine research critiques of adaptive toilet equipment investigate modifications that have been made in homes for the elderly in India analyze ways in which elderly people have changed their homes to make the telephone more accessible Aging in Place is a complete guide to understanding the needs and latest trends in optimizing the living space of elderly persons. The book gives you access to several studies on elderly people's environmental needs and preferences in regard to modifications in personal and public dwellings. This information will assist you with better serving the elderly by helping them live more independently.

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1317826132

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Community Programs for the Depressed Elderly

A Rehabilitation Approach

By: Ellen D Taira

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Community Programs for the Depressed Elderly

A Rehabilitation Approach

By: Ellen D Taira

International experts offer insights into rehabilitative work with the depressed elderly, including examples of successful treatment models, assessment and prevention techniques, as well as other helpful methods of alleviating depression in the institutionalized elderly.

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1317735889

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Therapeutic Interventions for the Person With Dementia

By: Ellen D Taira

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Therapeutic Interventions for the Person With Dementia

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This pioneering volume taps the resources and skills of top rehabilitation professionals and applies them to the person with Alzheimer’s disease and other related dementias.

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Aging in the Designed Environment

By: Margaret Christenson,Ellen D Taira

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Aging in the Designed Environment

By: Margaret Christenson,Ellen D Taira

Aging in the Designed Environment is the key sourcebook for physical and occupational therapists developing and implementing environmental designs for the aging. The physical environment remains one of the most overlooked areas in environmental design. In order to move beyond this status quo, persons responsible for planning elderly environments must develop a new understanding of ways in which their influence can improve the older adult’s physical and mental functioning. Occupational and physical therapists, as well as other health care professionals, will benefit tremendously from the information presented in this unique volume. Designers, developers, and others with minimal health care background will also find a wealth of possibilities within Aging in the Designed Environment. Many concerns are dealt with in the book’s five sections. The first section describes the implications that occur when there are changes in vision, hearing, taste, smell, touch, and the kinesthetic systems. Recommendations for environmental adaptation and modifications which may compensate for the changes in each of these systems are suggested. The second section stresses the relationship between behavior and environment. A variety of environmental attributes--comfort, privacy, accessibility, control, security, dignity--and their impacts are discussed, along with information on ways that attributes can be incorporated into the living settings of older people. In section three the focus is on the older person living independently in his or her own home, and section four covers exclusively the design and selection of chairs for older adults. New ways to assess and evaluate the home to promote independence beyond the traditional activities of daily living are addressed. The last section deals with redesigning the existing long-term care facility. The author examines some of the environmental conditions existing in specific facilities and provides recommendations to compensate for these circumstances.

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Routledge

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1317837886

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Rehabilitation Interventions for the Institutionalized Elderly

By: Ellen D Taira

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Rehabilitation Interventions for the Institutionalized Elderly

By: Ellen D Taira

Gerontology professionals offer suggestions to enrich the quality of rehabilitation services offered to the institutionalized elderly. This exciting volume examines up-to-the-minute ideas--some that would have been unlikely even a few years ago--that focus exclusively on rehabilitation services for the institutionalized elderly. Despite the strong move toward more community health services in the last decade, the essential role of the nursing home in the long term care continuum is continuing to expand. Perspectives on the response of elderly persons to therapeutic interventions are addressed--including the positive effects of such techniques as touch in therapy, group psychotherapy, and verbal and activity interventions. A significant exploration of the use of technological applications to promote independent living adds a new dimension to the use of technology in the field of gerontology--often a mixed blessing to chronically ill persons.

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Taylor & Francis

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131794092X

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Assessing the Driving Ability of the Elderly

A Preliminary Investigation

By: Ellen D. Taira

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Assessing the Driving Ability of the Elderly

A Preliminary Investigation

By: Ellen D. Taira

This much-needed book explores the extensive literature on assessing the driving ability of the elderly and provides specific guidelines for practitioners working with the well and the frail older driver. As the number of elderly drivers increases, therapists are being called upon to evaluate drivers who have become physically, cognitively, or otherwise impaired but who wish to continue to drive. Motor vehicle departments are not always equipped to screen out potential hazardous drivers nor are other health professionals with only brief opportunities to assess function. This timely book features preliminary research studies of vital interest to occupational therapists on the driving ability of the elderly. Assessing the Driving Ability of the Elderly provides a general overview of the literature on elderly drivers; reports the results of 21 screening instruments that test older persons visual, motor, and cognitive abilities related to driving; and examines the usefulness of a self-administered driving questionnaire and daily diary as a method of screening individuals for deficits that may affect driving performance. All instruments developed for these studies are included in this groundbreaking book.

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Psychology Press

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0866568956

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Community Programs for the Health Impaired Elderly

By: Ellen D Taira

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Community Programs for the Health Impaired Elderly

By: Ellen D Taira

Here is one of the first volumes focusing on the therapist's role in providing rehabilitation services for the expanding population of health impaired elderly who are living in the community. With changes in reimbursement policies for home care and out-patient services, the increased number of older persons living in the community, and most recently, the DRG and Prospective Payment initiatives, the role of institutions continues to diminish and the press for community alternatives is becoming more urgent with each new directive from government agencies. This exciting book includes an overviw of possibilities for the very frail person who might otherwise require an institutional setting. Other topics include management of the diabetic in the community, the sexual needs of older adults, crucial components to successful community living for anyone with a health impairment, and the timely and personal topic of coping with the death of a patient.

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Psychology Press

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1000526046

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The Mentally Impaired Elderly

Strategies and Interventions to Maintain Function

By: Ellen D. Taira

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The Mentally Impaired Elderly

Strategies and Interventions to Maintain Function

By: Ellen D. Taira

Provide effective support and sensitive care for the most vulnerable segment of the elderly population--those with mental impairment--with the helpful methods and practical strategies outlined in this invaluable new book. Because of the increasing number of older persons with memory impairments, mental health problems, and Alzheimer's disease, it is clear that interventions to delay the loss of function in mentally impaired older adults are desperately needed. The Mentally Impaired Elderly offers optimistic guidelines for caregivers of the mentally impaired elderly and demonstrates through the use of theoretical models, research, and clinical evidence that persons with dementia can participate in activities and family life longer than previously thought. Interventions are demonstrated for maintaining the function level of the mentally impaired elderly by focusing on controlling the environment to increase the patients self-care ability, resulting in lower care costs and an improved level of mental health for the patient. Beginning with the description of a theoretical model, this helpful volume provides a framework on which to base work with the mentally impaired elderly and to offer hope and encouragement to those involved with the task of caring for older persons. Important research is emphasized, including the role of temporal adaptation in self-care, the relationship between apraxia and dressing skills, and a positive view of efforts to enrich the daily lives of institutional residents using program enhancement. Those who care for mentally impaired elderly adults in the home, as well as gerontologists, occupational therapists, physical therapists, nurses, social workers, psychologists, and therapeutic recreation specialists, will greatly benefit from the helpful strategies outlined in this volume.

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Psychology Press

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Aging in Place

Designing, Adapting, and Enhancing the Home Environment

By: Ellen D Taira,Jodi Carlson

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Designing, Adapting, and Enhancing the Home Environment

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Rehabilitation Interventions for the Institutionalized Elderly

By: Ellen D Taira

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Promoting Quality Long Term Care for Older Persons

By: Ellen D Taira

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Promoting Quality Long Term Care for Older Persons

By: Ellen D Taira

Exciting programs in long term care--designed to better serve elderly persons with chronic diseases--are highlighted in this rich volume. The crucial economic and physical factors of long term care that specifically affect and influence the work of physical and occupational therapists are thoroughly addressed. Experts discuss insurance options and pitfalls that are a part of paying the enormous and costly bills for the process of rehabilitation. Several nontraditional, specialized occupational therapy treatment programs aimed at particular patient populations--Hispanics, cancer patients, the very disabled elderly--are closely scrutinized. In detailing the importance of preparing therapists and other health professionals for the specialized work of long term care with older patients, contributors focus on adequate training and education for long term care providers and personal interactions among patients and staff.

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CRC Press

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0866568603

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Aging in the Designed Environment

By: Margaret Christenson,Ellen D Taira

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By: Margaret Christenson,Ellen D Taira

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Community Programs for the Health Impaired Elderly

By: Ellen D Taira

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The Mentally Impaired Elderly

Strategies and Interventions to Maintain Function

By: Ellen D. Taira

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Strategies and Interventions to Maintain Function

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Community Programs for the Depressed Elderly

A Rehabilitation Approach

By: Ellen D Taira

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A Rehabilitation Approach

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Assessing the Driving Ability of the Elderly

A Preliminary Investigation

By: Ellen D. Taira

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A Preliminary Investigation

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Therapeutic Interventions for the Person With Dementia

By: Ellen D Taira

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Therapeutic Interventions for the Person With Dementia

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This pioneering volume taps the resources and skills of top rehabilitation professionals and applies them to the person with Alzheimer’s disease and other related dementias.

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