title: Sensitizing home care aides to the needs of the elderly.
abstract: Creative teaching strategies can be used to teach all home care providers how to empathize with their elderly patients. This article describes a simulation exercise used successfully by one educator to allow home care aide students to experience the limitations of aging and to better understand the situations of their patients.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Guariglia
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging; D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing / Q000379:methods*; D004645:Empathy; D005851:Geriatric Nursing / Q000193:education*; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D018576:Home Health Aides / Q000193:education* / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations