Core Principles
- Promote Altruism
- Rely on Evidence
Quality Task Principles
- Define your standards for ethical and decent care
- To understand the present, recognize the past
- Be clear about required caregiving tasks
- Foster dignity in grooming
- Safeguard physical health
- Attend to lifestyle
- Think of food as more than “sustenance”
- Recognize the place called “home”
- Put it in writing
- A picture’s worth a thousand words
Quality Service Principles
- Think of caregiving service as collaborative
- Respect the preferences of the person in care
- Think of “combative” behavior as an attempt to express oneself
- Pay close attention to body language
- Harness the strengths of the person in care
- Replace unsuccessful activities with distraction or diversion
- Respect the person in your care as your elder
- Remember that everyone is different in some ways
