HCA: Health Care Assistant

Delivers updated guidelines, new illustrative case studies, and the latest evidence-based protocols

This essential textbook on dementia care introduces the knowledge that nurses need, including the evidence base for practice and the guidance to transfer this newly acquired knowledge into everyday practice.

This guide provides a comprehensive resource for home health care professionals, offering assessment guides and interventions to address medication self-administration, family caregiving, and elderly education.

Namaste Care offers compassionate care to people with advanced dementia through sensory input, comfort and pleasure, combining music, therapeutic touch, colour, food and scents.

This practical guide helps student and practicing nurses to understand the impact of their care when working with older people.

This practical pocket guide focuses on what you need to know to support your patients' health and comfort.

Sets out tailored advice for supporting the oral and dental needs of people living with dementia.

This book discusses the practical aspects of eating and drinking as part of person-centred dementia care.

Your best tool to optimize patient care by minimizing restraint

This book restores trust in the power of touch, demonstrating the vital role it plays in supporting personhood, relationships and wellbeing, and challenging the barriers preventing staff from using touch in meaningful ways.