title: Challenging the paraprofessional: developing an in-home activities program for the demented home care client.
abstract: Individuals with Alzheimer's disease or other forms of dementia frequently require little more than custodial care, which can often be performed by a family caregiver. As a result, homemaker-home health aides, engaged primarily for respite care, enter situations where there is little to do in terms of traditional homemaker-home health aide duties. In an effort to increase job satisfaction for employees and provide a benefit for clients, AL-C*A*R*E has developed an in-home therapeutic activities program for demented clients that is conducted in each client's home by the homemaker-home health aide.
authors.affiliation: Homemaker Health Aide Service of the National Capital Area.
authors.forename: M Z
authors.initials: MZ
authors.lastname: Kocin
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000544:Alzheimer Disease / Q000628:therapy*; D004219:District of Columbia; D006699:Home Care Services; D006704:Homemaker Services; D006801:Humans; D011998:Recreation