Home Health Aides - Organization & administration
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Technology and home care: implementing systems to enhance aging in place.

30 May 2009 The national healthcare agenda to improve efficiencies, reduce costs, provide high quality evidence and performance based care while simultaneously meeting stricter legal and regulatory requirements, has forced home care and hospice staff to change ... Read more...

Elder abuse--a family experience.

30 Mar 2007 Abuse happens every day to elderly and disabled individuals either through ignorance or design. Protecting your patient or loved one requires you to be suspicious of everyone who has access to the patient, even other family members. It is the most ... Read more...

Evaluation of a consumer-personal assistant training project.

13 Mar 2007 PURPOSE. This study evaluated a personal assistance services (PAS) training programme that aimed to improve the consumer and personal assistant relationship and increase consumer and personal assistant knowledge on health and wellness issues. ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Home Health Aides - Organization & administration'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• [Social life auxiliary in an aide association and home care services. Interview by Gilles Guillard] 29 Jun 2009
• Technology and home care: implementing systems to enhance aging in place. 30 May 2009
• Care for the caregivers: how to find it. 30 Aug 2008
• [4/6--The social life auxiliary] 29 Jun 2008
• [A night home care service, a useful or superfluous initiative?] 28 Feb 2008
• Improving patient safety--everyone's job. Patient identification: an example of how the wrong man got a bath! 30 Jan 2008
• Home health aides' beliefs regarding pressure ulcer preventive care. 30 Jan 2008
• Elder abuse--a family experience. 30 Mar 2007
• Evaluation of a consumer-personal assistant training project. 13 Mar 2007
• In-home wound care management utilizing information technology. 30 Jan 2007
• Personal assistance in Sweden. 30 Dec 2006
• Testing therapeutic life review offered by home care workers to decrease depression among home-dwelling older women. 29 Nov 2006
• [Public social health services to demented persons living at home in Norway] 8 Aug 2006
• [The Foundation of France supports the floating night aide program] 27 Feb 2006
• [Floating night aide, risky bet or possible development?] 27 Feb 2006
• Clinical practice guidelines to improve shared decision-making about assistive device use in home care: a pilot intervention study. 30 Oct 2004
• [Reform of home nursing care services, a sea serpent?] 30 Dec 2003
• Caring for ventilated children at home. 30 Aug 2001
• Home health aide supervision: finding new meaning in existing requirements. 30 Mar 2001
• Social health maintenance organizations, Part II. 27 Feb 2001

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Technical information about 'Home Health Aides'

Definition: Persons who assist ill, elderly, or disabled persons in the home, carrying out personal care and housekeeping tasks. (From Slee & Slee, Health Care Terms. 2d ed, p202)

Descriptor UI: D018576

Alternative terms: Home Health Aides; Aide, Home Health; Aides, Home Health; Health Aide, Home; Health Aides, Home; Home Health Aide; Homemaker-Home Health Aides; Aide, Homemaker-Home Health; Aides, Homemaker-Home Health; Health Aide, Homemaker-Home; Health Aides, Homemaker-Home; Homemaker Home Health Aides; Homemaker-Home Health Aide; Home Care Aides; Aide, Home Care; Aides, Home Care; Care Aide, Home; Care Aides, Home; Home Care Aide;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; organization & administration; standards; supply & distribution; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics; education; psychology;

Tree Number: M01.526.485.067.350; N02.360.067.350;

History Note: 95

Technical Notes: coord IM with specific home health care (IM)