Handbook of Home Health Standards

This universally used Handbook provides Medicare and other care standards needed for clinicians to help family caregivers to provide person-centered care. Based on patient body systems there are "Caregiver Considerations" in each of the Care Guidelines for easy reference. For example, in the "Older Adult Care" section, there 10 caregiver-specific questions to help clinicians and families.  This includes "ID the caregiver who will be a part of the patient's care team..." "Is respite available for primary caregivers?", Teach the caregiver the top 3-5 most important aspects of care from a safety perspective...." and more.

In this way this edition of the "Handbook of Home Health Standards" (6th edition) integrates the important family/friend caregivers into care and care planning processes. This edition was designed to recognize and assist family/friend caregiving and caregivers as the most important source from a history and other perspectives. Who knows their loved the best?  Marrelli is also the author of a Guide for Caregiving: What's Next? Planning for Safety, Quality, and Compassionate Care for Your Loved One and Yourself. As a nurse, Marrelli provides information to make the complex understandable. This  "red book" celebrates and values the caregiver contributions to what the best care can be.