After Stroke: Enhancing Quality of Life brings together medical advice, practical survivor techniques, information about resources, and personal stories of triumph to help those who have experienced a stroke attain the highest quality of life possible. Recuperating from a stroke can be a long and arduous process, and it doesn't necessarily end when the survivor is released from the hospital. As this book shows, physicians, nurses, psychologists, physical therapists, speech pathologists, family, and friends need to employ a team approach to help the stroke survivor realize his/her fullest...

After Stroke: Enhancing Quality of Life brings together an extraordinary selection of advice, practical survivor techniques, information about resources, and personal stories of triumph. It is designed to help those who have experienced a stroke attain the highest quality of life possible, under their new physical restrictions.

Recuperating from a stroke is an arduous process that has only just begun when the survivor is released from the hospital. This book shows anyone interested how to create an effective climate for healing and how to help the survivor realize his/her fullest...

Understanding helps heal the hurt when you lose a pet.

This award-winning book has been hailed as the seminal work in the field. And now the fourth newly revised and expanded edition offers so much more to the bereaving pet owner. This edition also includes a significant new way of considering the meaning of afterlife for us and our pets. It discusses the topic from a twenty-first century scientific perspective that is very different from existing religious or metaphysical ones, offering a new comfort to skeptics and agnostics as well.

This book will help you in your healing from...