Providing Home Care: A Textbook for Home Health Aides

The third edition of Providing Home Care: A Textbook for Home Health Aides and the accompanying workbook are now available! Providing Home Care is a full-color, up-to-date, affordable book that meets and exceeds federal and state requirements. This edition contains new and/or updated information on abuse and neglect, nutritional requirements and special diets, advance directives, disasters, Alzheimer's disease, CPR, and infectious diseases.

Thousands of instructors shared their ideas of what would make the perfect home health aide training textbook, and we listened carefully. Providing Home Care is exactly what you wanted a full-color, up-to-date, affordable book that meets and exceeds federal and state requirements. Specifically, it contains:

- Beautiful illustrations and clear photographs with color tabs for easy location of material
- Chapters that are organized around learning objectives and are written at a low reading level
- Creative methods to teach care and related observations, ways to promote independence, and new information on abuse and neglect
- New material on MyPyramid and expanded sections on special diets and nutritional supplements
- New information on advance directives
- Expanded section on disasters and related guidelines
- Additional information and ways to care for clients with Alzheimer s disease
- Up-to-date sections on CPR and infectious diseases
- Chapter-ending material which develops critical thinking, as well as tests the chapter
- A new glossary at the end of the textbook