Sensitizing home care aides to the needs of the elderly.
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.
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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