Working with Toxic Older Adults: A Guide to Coping With Difficult Elders (repost)
Working with Toxic Older Adults: A Guide to Coping With Difficult Elders by Gloria Davenport PhD
English | 2006-05-03 | ISBN: 0826102751 | PDF | 312 pages | 12 MB
English | 2006-05-03 | ISBN: 0826102751 | PDF | 312 pages | 12 MB
Experienced caregivers will immediately recognize Gloria Davenport's descriptions of the "toxic" personality: elders who persistently poison their own care environment with noncompliant and psychologically abusive behavior. Toxic older adults are often hazardous cases for gerontology professionals: they can destroy care relationships, and even produce co-victimization in their caregivers.
Davenport presents ways that care providers can prevent difficult elders from manipulating the caregivers' energy and interfering with effective practice, relationships, and healing.