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    Personal Care Handbook: Survival Beyond the Caregiver
    Personal Care Handbook: Survival Beyond the Caregiver
    Personal Care Handbook: Survival Beyond the Caregiver
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    Personal Care Handbook: Survival Beyond the Caregiver

    By Gloria Lopez

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    The Personal Care Handbook also considered Survival Beyond the Caregiver is designed to assist an individual to document their medical condition in order to maintain a continuum of health when a Caregiver is needed. Upon completion it can explain in detail the medical needs regarding the medical condition and/or disability, medical concerns, all medical supplies, and how to hire a caregiver. Ms. Lopez believes that documenting your medical history and daily care will help prevent and minimize medical errors, and assist the medical team.


    As a parent of a young adult with multiple anomalies since birth, the challenges presented by the professionals involved, and the many changes in the health condition as well as the transitional evolution to an adult provided the purpose for the development of this book and the hope if a transfer of care was necessary there would be a minimal break in the daily care with the medical information provided. It has insured the continuum of health of her son. The recordkeeping from a caregiver has provided invaluable information when a medical situation arose being available to share the information with the medical team, assisting with a diagnosis.


    She is a speaker and an advocate on the purpose of documentation and has authored Personal Medical Journal, My Personal Medical Journal, Personal Medical Pocket Journal, Personal Caregivers Handbook, and the Personal Care Handbook.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTrafford Publishing
    Release dateMay 6, 2016
    ISBN9781490772851
    Personal Care Handbook: Survival Beyond the Caregiver
    Author

    Gloria Lopez

    For over forty-one years, Gloria A. Lopez has worked with children with disabilities and their families, and with adults who were diagnosed with medical conditions later in life. A mother of three children, her son was born with a disabilitySpina Bifida. Her experiences led her to design books that offer an individual self-empowerment by taking a more active role in their medical care through documentation. Ms. Lopez has helped start several support groups, including a group for parents experiencing the trauma of having a newborn in a neonatal hospital unit and local community parent support groups. She has assisted in developing a program to mainstream children with disabilities into local school districts in Santa Clara County, California. As a speaker, a medical conference planner, an advocate for child and parental rights, and a program developer on a community, state and national level, Ms. Lopez has been active with many issues affecting the disabled. She was a founder and Administrative Director of the Spina Bifida Association of California and continues to work with hospitals on disability awareness and program development. She has shown many families and individuals how to put together their own Personal Care Handbook to assist them in maintaining accurate records and to help them take a more active role in their medical care. Ms. Lopez believes through documentation will help prevent and minimize medical errors and assist the medical team. She is a speaker and an advocate on the purpose of documentation and has authored Personal Medical Journal, My Personal Medical Journal, Personal Medical Pocket Journal, Personal Caregivers Handbook, and the Personal Care Handbook.

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