About The Book

Empowering Caregivers: Relevant Lifestyle Profiles, 2nd Edition is a clinical book that focuses on ‘Functional Cognition’ and the development of the cognitive levels, which have been at the core of the working life of Claudia Kay Allen.  This book is comprised of 98 pages and has a CD with three data gathering forms and three sets of five forms to be used for scoring for use by healthcare clinicians. The data gathering tool ‘Advanced Lifestyle Directive’ is intended to gather personal factors that contribute to the formation of the ‘word story’.  The other two data gathering tools, ‘Brief Daily Life Activities Pre-Guide Checklist’ and the more substantial ‘Daily Life Activities Guide’, are designed to allow primary caregivers to play a role in providing information gathered from watching, noting and/or asking the person with cognitive disability what they are attempting to do. The healthcare clinicians report forms including the Brief Daily Life Activity (DLA) Pre-Guide and the five individual Daily Life Activities Guide - Caregiver Generated Relevant Profiles have been developed to slot into personal files of people with deficits in functional cognition.

Throughout this book the endeavor has been to walk clinicians and caregivers through the processes for using the data gathering instruments which, in turn, will benefit their understanding of functional cognition in everyday practice.  In all instances the data gathering proformae are designed to save precious time and to assist primary caregivers unable to access healthcare services because of the need to travel long distances, the vastness of the country they live in and/or the scarcity of therapists available to service the area in which they live in their country of origin. Further more the information in this book will allow healthcare clinicians who are hard pressed for time, to assist people living in isolated regions and provide primary caregivers with a sense of self efficacy due to the invaluable observations they can make as they go about their caregiving roles.

‘Empowering Caregivers: the Relevant Lifestyle Profiles’ has been designed to capture the life experiences, encompassing responses to both genetic and environmental influences which are critical determinants of personality. These two components combined with ‘unique experiences’, life long habits, routines and rituals do have an influence on how the adult person will accept therapy, assistance, and other support. Therefore, it is vitally important that healthcare clinicians conduct preliminary briefings for informal caregivers (family members and/or close friends) so that they have a firm and accurate basis for the design of both effective care plans and therapy treatment goals.

The two chapters in this book gives the reader an understanding of the theory and research that has occurred in 'the understanding of personal factors, which all or any of which may play a role in disability at any level', this is a quote from the World Health Organisations, International Classifications of Functioning, Disability and Health, (WHO, ICF- 2001).

The International Standard Book Number (ISBN) for this book is:

• ISBN  9780975048245 (hbk.).

The National Library of Australia, Cataloguing-in-Publication Data is:

• 1. Cognitive disorders – Patients -Care. 2. Caregivers – Psychology. 1 Title.
• 362.1968

The above is the official information relating to the book - Empowering Caregivers: Relevant Lifestyle Profile.

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