Conducted national survey concerning employees for home visiting programs that serve families with children. Results from 1,904 respondents representing Head Start, educational, social service, and health agencies showed that wide range of educational backgrounds was required for employment, but there was considerable similarity in personal…

The benefits of home care for the severely handicapped child and his family are discussed. The Homemaker-Home Health Aide Service has been successfully adapted to fulfill the needs of these families. (GO)

Services discussed are directed toward providing relief to parents charged with full-time care of a retarded child. The manner in which this respite care can be provided are explored in areas in or out of the home, on a regular or intermittent basis, and involving additional services. Homemaker, nursing, and babysitter services, as well as foster,…

Findings from a study of home care services in one New York district document the value and relatively modest costs of home health care for the chronically ill and dependent elderly. Professional nurses coordinated the care, but most of the direct services were provided by home health aides and housekeepers. (MF)

The home health aide is a member of a team which provides home health care services, usually a part of the overall health services furnished by the local county health department. She does those things which are required to maintain normal physical and emotional comfort and to help the patient toward independent living in his own home, working…

The survey of agencies providing home care conducted on January 1, 1966 by the Division of Nursing showed that almost 70 percent of the population of the United States and essentially all of the population in the territories lived in areas where some type of organized home care nursing services was available. Since 1959, the number of large cities…

This document describes Illinois' Community Care Program (CCP), a program which provides chore housekeeping, homemaker, and adult day care services to older persons who cannot perform some tasks basic of everyday life without assistance, in order to help them live independently. Case management, information and referral, and nursing home…

The instructor's guide contains an outline of material to be covered in the training of home health aides and is planned around the team teaching of registered professional nurses, vocational home economists, and other specialists, as needed. The 200-hour training program includes 60 hours of classroom instruction taught in accordance with…

This document contains teacher's materials for a five-unit secondary education vocational home economics course on families with special health needs. The units cover: (1) family health needs (including the impact of special needs on financial well-being, the impact on the psychological health of the family, and the relationship of society to…

OPPORTUNITIES FOR TRAINING OLDER ADULTS IN NEW OCCUPATIONS HAVE BEEN MADE POSSIBLE BY RECENT FEDERAL LEGISLATION. UNDER THE SPONSORSHIP OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA, PROGRAMS WERE STARTED IN 20 RURAL COMMUNITIES TO TRAIN OLDER WOMEN AS VISITING HOMEMAKERS. LOCAL AGENCIES ORGANIZED THE COURSE AND RECRUITED THE TRAINEES, THE HOME ECONOMICS AGENT…