Caring for Bedbound and Mobility-Challenged Adults
Tuesday, May 12, 2015, 3:46 p.m.Deanwood LibraryParklands-Turner LibrarySouthwest LibraryTenley-Friendship Library
Caring for Bedbound and Mobility-Challenged Adults
Caring for an aging parent with Alzheimer's or a loved one struggling with cancer or a life-challenging illness can take an emotional, physical, and financial toll on a family. The Washington Home and Community Hospices in partnership with the D.C. Public Library will be hosting "Caring for Bedbound and Modbility Challenged Adults" an interactive program to empower caregivers in our communities with information and tips that can help provide the best possible care for a loved one who is homebound or bedbound.
Sarting in January 2015, Denise Bethea Lewis, MSNed BSN RN, Clinical Liaison with the Washington Home and Community Hospices, will be at a a different branch library each month sharing important caregiving information for you and your loved-ones.
Some of the topics she will be convering include:
Sarting in January 2015, Denise Bethea Lewis, MSNed BSN RN, Clinical Liaison with the Washington Home and Community Hospices, will be at a a different branch library each month sharing important caregiving information for you and your loved-ones.
Some of the topics she will be convering include:
- How to support a sick person
- How to turn and change bed linen
- Bathing and dressing a bedbound person
- Incontenance care
- Bed changing while the patient is in bed
- Positioning the patient
- Feeding
- Bedside conversation
- Comfort care
- Medical Equipment use
- Long term care services
- When to call on hospice care
