Informal Caregiver of Older Adults at Home: Let's PREPARE

New from the Try This: Best Practices in Nursing Care for Older Adults from the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing, New York University School of Nursing.

The PREPARE approach provides the home care nurse with a tool to facilitate a successful transition of the patient to home care. The checklist may be utilized to assure that the essential components of informal caregiver preparedness have been assessed. If the informal caregiver is found lacking the necessary health care management skills the nurse, in collaboration
with the primary care provider and the multidisciplinary team, can implement interventions to provide the needed support.

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