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Caring for Someone with a Long-Term Illness
ISBN: 9780719078057 / Angielski / Twarda / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first book in the "Support for Friends and Family" series from Manchester University Press. Caring for, or being close to someone who cares for a person with a long-term illness can be very difficult, and not knowing how to help can be frustrating. The book is designed to help friends, family and carers understand the practical and personal issues that face carers; providing useful suggestions on how to understand the carer's role and ways to make the experience easier for the carer and those around them. This is less of a how to do book and more a selection of chapters which...
This is the first book in the "Support for Friends and Family" series from Manchester University Press. Caring for, or being close to someone who care...
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Informal Care and Support for Carers
ISBN: 9783639072259 / Angielski / Miękka / 76 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The general aim of this book is to describe and analyse patterns of informal care and support for carers in Sweden. A typology of four different care categories based on what carers do revealed that women were much more likely than men to be involved at the heavy end of caring, i.e. providing personal care in combination with a variety of other caring tasks. Men were more likely than women to provide some kind of practical help The book also examines whether the carer support that is provided by municipalities and voluntary organizations in Sweden is aimed directly or indirectly at caregivers...
The general aim of this book is to describe and analyse patterns of informal care and support for carers in Sweden. A typology of four different care ...
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Lymphedema Caregiver's Guide
ISBN: 9780976480679 / Angielski / Miękka / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Caregiver's Guide is the first book to provide detailed instructions for caregivers on all aspects of lymphedema (or lymphoedema) home care including physical care (skin care, simple lymph drainage, compression, exercise, etc.), communications skills and emotional support, and activities of daily living. Caregivers will also learn ways to protect themselves from injury and burnout. Caregiver's Guide outlines a systematic approach to determining the patient's care needs, arranging care, and coordinating multiple caregivers. Trained lymphedema caregivers are in short supply now and we face a...
Caregiver's Guide is the first book to provide detailed instructions for caregivers on all aspects of lymphedema (or lymphoedema) home care including ...
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Primary Health Care in Cuba: The Other Revolution
ISBN: 9780742566354 / Angielski / Miękka / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cuba's primary health care system is a well-known and well-hidden jewel of global health care. It has eradicated malaria and polio, and curtailed HIV/AIDS and dengue fever. This book focuses on the successes of Cuba's preventive primary health care system, rather than the deficit of the curative care system.
Cuba's primary health care system is a well-known and well-hidden jewel of global health care. It has eradicated malaria and polio, and curtailed HIV/...
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The Gift I Was Given: The Journey of a Caregiver Through the Stages of What Now?, Why Me?, & Ah Ha!
ISBN: 9781600375040 / Angielski / Miękka / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Families of individuals with specials needs often feel lost, confused and alone. If the person who is the caregiver is a parent of a young child newly diagnosed, the parent of a young person returning from college with mental illness, the parent of an adult with a disability who is trying to find their way in the world, or the child of a parent who now needs care due to the aging process, all have the same common fears. They don't know where to start, how to be a good caregiver, and don't know where to begin to look for help. The feeling of helplessness can be staggering. Knowing you are not...
Families of individuals with specials needs often feel lost, confused and alone. If the person who is the caregiver is a parent of a young child newly...
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36 Days Apart: A Memoir of a Daughter, Her Parents and the Beast Named - Alzheimer's: A Story of Life, Love and Death
ISBN: 9781438952338 / Angielski / Miękka / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Memoir of a daughter, her parents and the Beast named - Alzheimer's A story of Life, Love and Death
A Memoir of a daughter, her parents and the Beast named - Alzheimer's A story of Life, Love and Death
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Who's Watching?: Daily Practices of Surveillance among Contemporary Families
ISBN: 9780826516725 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although family members sometime engage in monitoring as an extension of governmental surveillance, they also monitor each other, other families, and their own borders to preserve norms about what a family should be and what family members should do. Whether it is the seemingly benign surveillance of using baby monitors, the more obviously intrusive use of home drug tests on teenagers, or the way people in public feel free to judge and comment on the family composition of others, monitoring goes on all the time -- and even (or maybe especially) when there seems to be no monitoring going on at...
Although family members sometime engage in monitoring as an extension of governmental surveillance, they also monitor each other, other families, and ...
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Who's Watching?: Daily Practices of Surveillance Among Contemporary Families
ISBN: 9780826516718 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although family members sometime engage in monitoring as an extension of governmental surveillance, they also monitor each other, other families, and their own borders to preserve norms about what a family should be and what family members should do. Whether it is the seemingly benign surveillance of using baby monitors, the more obviously intrusive use of home drug tests on teenagers, or the way people in public feel free to judge and comment on the family composition of others, monitoring goes on all the time -- and even (or maybe especially) when there seems to be no monitoring going on at...
Although family members sometime engage in monitoring as an extension of governmental surveillance, they also monitor each other, other families, and ...
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You Are Not Alone---A Message to Parents of Children with Autism
ISBN: 9781935118718 / Angielski / Miękka / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. If your child -- or the child of a close friend or relative -- has just received a diagnosis of autism, you are probably feeling baffled and overwhelmed. It is never easy to learn that someone you love has a serious health or developmental condition. Nothing is quite the same after the diagnosis comes in from the doctor. Many families report mixed feelings of sadness and relief when their child is diagnosed. You may feel completely overwhelmed. You may also feel relieved to know that the concerns you have had for your child are valid. An entire world changes just at the diagnosis, but there...
If your child -- or the child of a close friend or relative -- has just received a diagnosis of autism, you are probably feeling baffled and overwhelm...
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Culture, Ethics, and Advance Care Planning
ISBN: 9780739135655 / Angielski / Twarda / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the fast-paced world of clinical medicine, recognizing and acknowledging differences in worldviews is often overlooked. When dealing with the delicate issues broached in advance care planning, such oversights can lead to deep rifts within the health care provider-patient relationship. By providing guidance to those engaged in such endeavors and setting advance care planning in a global context, health care practitioners will be better able to care for their patients and achieve the noble goal of advance care planning_giving volume to the voice of the patient in the last chapter of her life.
In the fast-paced world of clinical medicine, recognizing and acknowledging differences in worldviews is often overlooked. When dealing with the delic...
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No Small Miracles: Heartwarming, Humorous, and Hopefilled Stories from a Pediatric Chaplain
ISBN: 9780849929755 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. If you've ever wondered whether faith makes a difference in the worst times; whether God is real; or how humor can find its way even into life's battlefields . . . this inspirational book will show you.
If you've ever wondered whether faith makes a difference in the worst times; whether God is real; or how humor can find its way even into life's battl...
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The Patient Advocate's Handbook 300 Questions and Answers to Help You Care for Your Loved One at the Hospital and at Home
ISBN: 9780984282500 / Angielski / Miękka / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. I wrote The Patient Advocate's Handbook, a content-rich, easy-to-use, quick reference patient advocacy book to offer you, the patient advocate, concise explanations, options and suggestions, which will help you learn about and cope with many of the unfamiliar, but common healthcare issues most patient advocates and their families face at the hospital and at home. This patient advocate book discusses common situations created by illness and recovery to offer relevant information when you need it, so your increased familiarity with healthcare issues as an informed patient advocate will lead to...
I wrote The Patient Advocate's Handbook, a content-rich, easy-to-use, quick reference patient advocacy book to offer you, the patient advocate, concis...
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Moments That Matter: Cases in Ethical Eldercare: A Guide for Family Members
ISBN: 9781450203784 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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What Not to Say to a Cancer Patient: How to Talk about Cancer and Create a Supportive Network
ISBN: 9781937504731 / Angielski / Miękka / 114 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A four-year survivor of stage IV papillary thyroid
cancer, Paul Bishop offers the newly diagnosed practical advice to effectively manage their energy, resources, and emotions. To those around them he shares an inside perspective into the thoughts, hopes, and fears from the patients point of view; and provides helpful suggestions for how one can support them. Paul Bishop has been featured on an Emmy-award winning segment of 60 Minutes. A four-year survivor of stage IV papillary thyroid
cancer, Paul Bishop offers the newly diagnosed practical advice to effectively manage their... |
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Bedside Manner: How to Gain Your Patients' Respect, Love & Loyalty
ISBN: 9780982844106 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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So Far Away: A Daughter's Memoir of Life, Loss, and Love
ISBN: 9780826517951 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Christine Hartmann's mother valued control above all else, yet one event appeared beyond her command: the timing of her own death. Not to be denied there either, two decades in advance Irmgard Hartmann chose the date on which to end her life. And her next step was to tell her daughter all about it. For twenty years, Irmgard maintained an unwavering goal, to commit suicide at age seventy. She managed her chronic hypertension, stayed healthy and active, and lived life to the fullest. Meanwhile, Christine fought desperately against the decision. When Irmgard wouldn't listen, the only way to...
Christine Hartmann's mother valued control above all else, yet one event appeared beyond her command: the timing of her own death. Not to be denied th...
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Strength for the Sandwich Generation: Help to Thrive While Simultaneously Caring for Our Kids and Our Aging Parents
ISBN: 9781598843644 / Angielski / Twarda / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Multigenerational caregiving has become a prevalent phenomenon in the generation of Baby Boomers. Nurturing children as they rapidly evolve and grow as individuals while simultaneously assisting elderly parents to live with--and then exit life with--dignity and respect can be a trying experience. The good news: there can be great joy in this capacity as well. "Strength for the Sandwich Generation: Help to Thrive While Simultaneously Caring for Our Kids and Our Aging Parents" addresses the multiple complexities that arise for the millions of middle-aged adults caring for both their... Multigenerational caregiving has become a prevalent phenomenon in the generation of Baby Boomers. Nurturing children as they rapidly evolve and gro... |
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Alzheimer's and Dementia: A Practical and Legal Guide for Nevada Caregivers
ISBN: 9780874178586 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Individuals or families receiving a diagnosis of Alzheimer s disease, dementia, or brain damage from a stroke face daunting questions: how to provide for care when the patient can no longer manage his or her own affairs, how to protect their rights and property, where to go for help, and how to cope with the day-to-day challenges of fading memory and diminished cognition. Here is a comprehensive guide specifically for aging Nevadans and for family members, professional caregivers, and health care workers who help them.The authors an elder law attorney and a specialist in geriatric care...
Individuals or families receiving a diagnosis of Alzheimer s disease, dementia, or brain damage from a stroke face daunting questions: how to provide ...
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Nightingale Tales: Stories from My Life as a Nurse
ISBN: 9781631522765 / Angielski / Inna / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Care Work in Europe: Current Understandings and Future Directions
ISBN: 9780415541015 / Angielski / Miękka / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Care Work in Europe provides a cross-national and cross-sectoral study of care work in Europe today, covering policy, provision and practice, as well as exploring how care work is conceptualized and understood. Drawing on a study which looks at care work across the life course in a number of European countries, this book:
Care Work in Europe provides a cross-national and cross-sectoral study of care work in Europe today, covering policy, provision and practi... |
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