Working with Toxic Older Adults: A Guide to Coping with Difficult Elders

by Gloria Davenport

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826102751
• ISBN13: 9780826102751
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"