From Rules to Caring Practices
From the Park Ridge Center for Health, Faith and Ethics

This training package addresses ethical issues faced by frontline home care and adult daycare workers providing services to the elderly. It poses four questions as the building blocks of everyday ethics: How can I build and maintain a trusting relationship with this person? How can I respect and affirm this client as a person of worth? What does it mean to care well for this person? What do I need in order to respect myself and affirm that I am a morally worthy person.

Designed as a "train the trainer" program for home care agencies, it can be presented as a three-hour program or as three one-hour sessions, and can also be used for self-study by individual staff. The package consists of a 16-minute video, which presents four cases in which home care workers must resolve ethical dilemmas in caring for their patients, along with an extensive Instructor's Guide and Caregiver's Workbook. Also included are an Instructor's Guide and Caregiver's Workbook for exploring some of the same issues as they arise in adult daycare settings.

16 minutes
© 2000
Purchase $129 VHS
Order No. QA-332
ISBN (VHS) 1-57295-332-2

Awards & Conference Screenings
Silver Hugo, Best Adult Education Video,
Chicago International Film Festival

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