ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book assists home care providers in developing better and more effective teaching strategies. It provides sample teaching plans, examples of how to assess and develop educational materials for reading level and lists teaching resources for clinicians and clients. The book focuses on family coping when providing care to older members. It also focuses on the magnitude and significance of family caregiving problems and theoretical frameworks that provide explanations of family coping problems. It presents a portion of the material developed by project staff of the three year, Elderly Homecare Project funded by Fred Meyer Charitable Trust. The book identifies the impact of early hospital discharge on the provision of home health care by identifying the types of clinical problems home health care providers encountered in providing services to acutely ill, homebound elders,.
