Caring for the Elderly: Best Practice in Person-centred Care

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People who need care want to be the centre of their own lives. If you are a carer, this manual suggests ways of looking at your work to see if you are doing it well and in what ways it could be improved.

  • What a Carer needs to learn
  • Learning More
  • The work of a Carer – what the elderly need
  • Making and implementing a Care Plan
  • The politics around ageing
  • Resources and References

Authors: Ahmed Nabeel Alvi; Abdikadir Ismail; Billie Bbosa; Pamela Bloor; Angela Foley; Mary Makenga; Michael Miro; Maeve Moynihan; Thandiwe Gwarumba; Maytham Al Zubaidi
Editors: Jon Anderson; Maeve Moynihan; Nicolien Wassenaar

June 2015

See also: Caring for People with Physical Disabilities