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Nursing Homes and Assisted Living: The Family's Guide to Making Decisions and Getting Good Care (2nd Edition)

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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- PART I: CARING DECISIONS -- CHAPTER 1 When Someone You Love Goes Into Care -- Becoming a Caregiver -- Becoming "the Family Member" of Someone in Care -- Learning the Role of "the Family Member" -- Types and Levels of Care -- Other Considerations -- Alastair -- CHAPTER 2 Deciding about Care -- How to Talk about Care -- Choosing the Right Time -- Stress and Burnout -- When a Parent Chooses to Live at Risk -- Making the Decision -- Your Legal Right to Make Decisions for Your Relative: A Warning -- Advance Directives and Medical Decisions -- Lydia Jean -- CHAPTER 3 Family Decision Making -- Family Relationships and Care Decisions -- How to Make Family Decisions -- Family Meetings -- Keep Your Relative Involved -- Mary -- CHAPTER 4 Guilt, Loss, and Grief -- What Is Guilt? -- Conflicts That Give Rise to Guilt -- Families and Guilt -- Adult Children -- Guilt, Culture, and Society Today -- When Guilt Has Other Purposes in Your Life -- Not All Relationships Were Ideal -- Guilt and Dementia -- Dealing with Guilt -- Letting Go -- Grief and Loss -- Handling Grief -- Marjorie -- PART II: THE RESIDENCE -- CHAPTER 5 About Nursing Homes and Assisted Living Facilities -- Keeping Your Relative at Home -- Where to Start Finding a Nursing Home or Assisted Living Facility -- Applying for Seniors Housing -- About Good Care and Good Caring -- Models of Care -- On Abuse -- Specialized Dementia Care Units -- Costs -- Nursing Homes and Legal Responsibility -- Mildred -- CHAPTER 6 Viewing the Residence -- Staffing -- Programming -- Policies -- Dining -- Physical Plant -- Surveys and Accreditation -- John and Joyce -- CHAPTER 7 Staff Roles: Who Does What? -- Receptionist -- Administrator -- Personal Care: Nurse's Aides -- Nurses -- Dietitian and Food Services Staff -- Social Worker -- Recreation Therapists.