Serving Missouri counties Platte, Clay, Jackson, Cass, Mercer, Grundy, Daviess, Livingston, Caldwell, Ray, Lafayette, Johnson, Bates, Henry and Benton and Johnson County, Kan.
Caring for a parent, spouse or friend in a home setting, ensuring a safe environment and providing even the most basic care can be overwhelming. Family Caregiving is a National Red Cross program that offers training sessions that help caregivers gain new skills and a better understanding of how to provide safe care in the home.
Home is Where the Heart is: Keeping Safety at Home
Learn how to check your home for hazards, prevent fires, falls, infections, and injuries. Be prepared for emergencies (storm preparation is stressed), develop an emergency escape plan, and create a First Aid kit and disaster supply kit. Laundry Soap in the Soup: Caring for a Loved One with Alzheimer's Disease or Other Dementia
In this class you will learn what is happening in the brain of a person with Alzheimer’s Disease, common behaviors that occur, the reasons they do, and how to manage them. How to better communicate with a dementia patient, and how to protect the dementia patient who wanders. How to gain cooperation with daily activities such as bathing, dressing, eating and medications.
Rocker Knives, Plate Guards & Thick-It: A Caregiver's Guide to Healthy Eating
Attendees learn the basics of good nutrition and how to assist an ill person, ways to stimulate appetite, and help for the dementia patient who can’t focus long enough to eat. Also, how to feed someone, and what to do if your loved one chokes often.
Staying You: A Caregiver's Guide to Boundaries and Self Care
This class teaches how to recognize the signs of caregiver burnout, depression, and stress-related illnesses. The instructor helps caregivers realize their human limitations and set realistic limits on the expectations of themselves and others. Defines Respite Care and shares tips for locating such assistance.
Vital Signs and Medication Managements: General Caregiving Skills
Teaches how & why to measure temperature, pulse, respiration, and blood pressure (includes equipment and practice time). Know when a change is significant and how to report change to the physician. Learn medicataion administration techniques and record keeping.
You Want Me to Do What? Assisting with Personal Care
In this class, the instructor demonstrates a bed bath, oral care, grooming and dressing techniques on a life-size mannequin.
Compassion, Respect and Humor: Caring for a Loved One with HIV/AIDS (Available by request as needed. Call Program Manager Lyn Polk at (816) 841-5203, or email polkl@arckc.org.)
Free In-home visits Available!
Generous grant funding from Clay County Senior Services, and the United Way allows our nurses to provide in-home consultations to help solve caregiver’s problems. Call Program Manager Lyn Polk at (816) 841-5203, or send an email at polkl@arckc.org to discuss this service.
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