DCPL Partnership on Caring for Mobility Challenged Adults

A neighbor passed along information about Caring for Bedbound and Mobility Challenged Adults, a program developed through a partnership between DC Public Library and The Washington Home and Community Hospices. The site is  full of information on topics related to caregiving. In addition, a clinical liaison from Washington Home and Community Hospices will visit different library locations during 2015 to conduct workshops on a range of issues.

Topics to be covered include:

  • How to support a sick person
  • How to turn and change bed linen
  • Bathing and dressing a bedbound person
  • Incontinence care
  • Bed changing while the patient is in bed
  • Positioning the patient
  • Feeding
  • Bedside conversation
  • Comfort care
  • Medical equipment use
  • Long-term care services
  • When to call on hospice care

All of the workshops will take place at 7:00 p.m. on the third Thursday of the month unless otherwise noted.  Below is a listing of library locations offering this program throughout 2015.

Jan. 15: Tenley-Friendship May 21: Watha T. Daniel/Shaw Sept. 17: Northeast
Feb. 19: Deanwood June 15 (Monday:
Cleveland Park
Oct. 15: Shepherd Park
March 21: Southwest July 15 (Wednesday):
Mt. Pleasant
Nov. 19: Palisades
April 16: Parklands Turner Aug. 20: Northwest One Dec. 10: Takoma Park

 

 

 

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