The Care of the Dying Patient
ISBN: 9780826218742 / Angielski / Twarda / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although the need for improved care for dying patients is widely recognized and frequently discussed, few books address the needs of the physicians, nurses, social workers, therapists, hospice team members, and pastoral counselors involved in care. "Care of the Dying Patient" contains material not found in other sources, offering advice and solutions to anyone professional caregiver or family member confronted with incurable illness and death. Its authors have lectured and published extensively on care of the dying patient and here review a wide range of topics to show that relief of physical...
Although the need for improved care for dying patients is widely recognized and frequently discussed, few books address the needs of the physicians, n...
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232,70 zł |
Avoiding The 15 Biggest Mistakes Parents Make: A Pediatrician'S Perspective
ISBN: 9781419657900 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Author John Mangoni, M.D., tells parents the short and skinny on the nuts and bolts to parenting in the modern world. He provides guidelines, recommendations and tells it like it is on a wide range of topics. From the formula to good health to issues concerning the overly active and overly pampered child to combating childhood incidences of obesity, here is the template to good parenting. Refreshingly candid and at times brutally honest, this book examines the child-parent relationship with the goal to help good parents be aware of issues and help prevent difficulties affecting today's...
Author John Mangoni, M.D., tells parents the short and skinny on the nuts and bolts to parenting in the modern world. He provides guidelines, recommen...
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67,26 zł |
Dementia: The Monster Within
ISBN: 9781938526480 / Angielski / Miękka / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Most families have "skeletons" in the closet. For my wife's family, there was a Monster, a type of dementia that robs loving, intelligent individuals of everything-their dignity, their personality, their memory, their finances, and their minds. The "skeletons" are the remains of loved ones after the Monster has finished with them. The family members who are not devoured by this beast are, even so, crippled and maimed by its effects on their loved ones. Little did I know when Evelyn and I married in 1970 that this "Jabberwock" would come a'calling on us. My wife at age 60 is now vastly gone,...
Most families have "skeletons" in the closet. For my wife's family, there was a Monster, a type of dementia that robs loving, intelligent individuals ...
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64,02 zł |
In Sickness and in Health
ISBN: 9781450037662 / Angielski / Miękka / 56 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Longing for a less hectic life for herself, her husband, and family, the author explains how her dreams were met when moving from Silicon valley, to southwest Colorado, in 2002. How her husbands declining health effected their lifes forever. She describes in great detail the changing dynamics within her family during this difficult time and how she coped with the situation. Since she has become a Certified Life coach, and Hospice volunteer working with the family caregiver while she was writing this book, she was able to use her coaching skills for advice for the caregiver, with each stage of...
Longing for a less hectic life for herself, her husband, and family, the author explains how her dreams were met when moving from Silicon valley, to s...
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71,75 zł |
The Caregiver's Tao Te Ching: Compassionate Caring for Your Loved Ones and Yourself
ISBN: 9781577318880 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Those who care for the ailing, whether helping someone recover, grapple with a long-term disability, or face a terminal illness, often feel alone, overwhelmed, exhausted. William and Nancy Martin have worked as counselors, hospice trainers, and Zen guides and as caregivers themselves. With empathy and insight, they offer readers solace drawn from the eternal wisdom of the Tao Te Ching.
Like the original Chinese text, this book contains eighty-one chapters. Each chapter includes a poem for caregivers, evocative of the verses of the Tao Te Ching, followed by a reflection that... Those who care for the ailing, whether helping someone recover, grapple with a long-term disability, or face a terminal illness, often feel alone, ove...
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64,10 zł |
Dementia: The Monster Within
ISBN: 9780982695739 / Angielski / Miękka / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Most families have "skeletons" in the closet. For my wife's family, there was a Monster, a type of dementia that robs loving, intelligent individuals of everything-their dignity, their personality, their memory, their finances, and their minds. The "skeletons" are the remains of loved ones after the Monster has finished with them. The family members who are not devoured by this beast are, even so, crippled and maimed by its effects on their loved ones. Little did I know when Evelyn and I married in 1970 that this "Jabberwock" would come a'calling on us. My wife at age 60 is now vastly gone,...
Most families have "skeletons" in the closet. For my wife's family, there was a Monster, a type of dementia that robs loving, intelligent individuals ...
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149,49 zł |
Passages in Caregiving: Turning Chaos Into Confidence
ISBN: 9780061661211 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "One of those rare books that can drastically lighten even the heaviest of loads."
--Rosalynn Carter "Trust me: there is no better guide to caregiving." --Bill Moyers Gail Sheehy, author of the groundbreaking Passages--which was a New York Times bestseller for more than three years--now brings us Passages in Caregiving. In this essential guide, the acclaimed expert on the now aging Baby Boomer generation outlines nine crucial steps for effective, successful family caregiving, turning chaos into confidence during this most crucial of life... "One of those rare books that can drastically lighten even the heaviest of loads."
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72,61 zł |
On Becoming A Caregiver
ISBN: 9781456836252 / Angielski / Twarda / 56 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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134,56 zł |
On Becoming a Caregiver
ISBN: 9781456836245 / Angielski / Miękka / 56 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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68,33 zł |
Perspectives on Care at Home for Older People
ISBN: 9780415895903 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Demographic and epidemiological changes mean that frail older people have come to be seen as an expensive problem for health care systems. The challenge for professionals and policy-makers is to find ways to respond to the coming crisis by delivering high-quality care in the home. This collection offers a critical analysis of home care policy and practice. It focuses on how high-quality care is provided and the practices and policies that support this. It offers case studies (both policy- and practice-oriented empirical studies) from countries that share a basic orientation to social welfare:...
Demographic and epidemiological changes mean that frail older people have come to be seen as an expensive problem for health care systems. The challen...
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849,27 zł |
Over The Waterfall
ISBN: 9781453780237 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Where does one find meaning when one's witty, intelligent, beautiful daughter is hit by a car while a senior at one of the country's most prestigious universities and lies unconscious for close to eight months only to emerge severely brain injured? This book not only chronicles a family's journey through the health-care system but because the mother is a theologian and professor of health-care ethics examines the ethical concerns that arise when dealing with brain injury. It also reveals a mother's spiritual journey, which begins with facing the possibility that her child may die and...
Where does one find meaning when one's witty, intelligent, beautiful daughter is hit by a car while a senior at one of the country's most prestigious ...
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67,08 zł |
Who Is Taking Care of My Mother
ISBN: 9781456840679 / Angielski / Miękka / 126 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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81,31 zł |
Who Is Taking Care of My Mother
ISBN: 9781456840686 / Angielski / Twarda / 126 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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127,08 zł |
Dancing Cats, Silent Canaries : A Traditional Medical Doctor Takes a Closer Look at Unsolved Epidemics of Autism & Sids and Proposes a Solution
ISBN: 9781432767952 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dancing Cats Silent Canaries is a compelling story written by a traditional doctor to help parents frightened by the risks of their baby succumbing to sudden unexplained death or disabling neurological and respiratory diseases. It is about the failure of doctors, including the author, to pay closer attention to lurking dangers associated with environmental toxins and vaccines never conclusively proven safe. This book depicts critically important roles being played by manmade toxins in Crib deaths and the rapidly growing epidemic of neurological disorders, especially Autism. Largely ignored...
Dancing Cats Silent Canaries is a compelling story written by a traditional doctor to help parents frightened by the risks of their baby succumbing to...
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95,49 zł |
Embracing the Moment: An Alzheimer's Memoir
ISBN: 9781439252413 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Embracing the Moment: An Alzheimer's Memoir challenges a daughter's responsibilities in the care for her mother. The author, a journal-writing instructor uses her writing style to captivate the audience with various writing techniques unlike any other books. It's poignantly written and accounts for the various stages of the illness such as odd behaviors, forgetting the names of loved ones and the experience of pre-death grief. Relentless love and devotion between mother and daughter is breathtaking. As a professional photographer, the daughter captures raw emotions with her black and white...
Embracing the Moment: An Alzheimer's Memoir challenges a daughter's responsibilities in the care for her mother. The author, a journal-writing instruc...
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67,26 zł |
Aging Thoughtfully: Conversations about Retirement, Romance, Wrinkles, and Regret
ISBN: 9780190600235 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. We all age differently, but we can learn from shared experiences and insights. The conversations, or paired essays, in Aging Thoughtfully combine a philosopher's approach with a lawyer-economist's. Here are ideas about when to retire, how to refashion social security to help the elderly poor, how to learn from King Lear -- who did not retire successfully -- and whether to enjoy or criticize anti-aging cosmetic procedures. Some of the concerns are practical: philanthropic decisions, relations with one's children and grandchildren, the purchase of annuities, and how to provide for...
We all age differently, but we can learn from shared experiences and insights. The conversations, or paired essays, in Aging Thoughtfully com...
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113,53 zł |
Caregiver's Guide: Care for Yourself While You Care for Your Loved Ones
ISBN: 9780786449620 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Every year, 65 million people give care to their frail, ailing, or disabled loved ones. Whether caregiving begins with a crisis or builds gradually, spouses, adult children, parents with sick children, even children themselves who care for parents and grandparents can find themselves struggling to navigate the often-confusing medical world while neglecting their own health and well-being. How can caregivers care for themselves when they are consumed with tending to someone else? This indispensible guide offers the information, support, and resources needed to achieve this difficult balance....
Every year, 65 million people give care to their frail, ailing, or disabled loved ones. Whether caregiving begins with a crisis or builds gradually, s...
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185,49 zł |
In Sickness and In Health: A Husbands Story of Surviving Breast Cancer
ISBN: 9781489510365 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is the story of one couple going through the battle against breast cancer. Told from the husbands viewpoint, the book includes his experiences of dealing with medical staff, helping his wife through various treatments, and his own personal feelings and struggles along the journey. This book provides useful ideas for helping a woman through breast cancer treatments while also encouraging husband's to be a part of the whole process.
This book is the story of one couple going through the battle against breast cancer. Told from the husbands viewpoint, the book includes his experienc...
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67,31 zł |
Caring and Well-Being: A Lifeworld Approach
ISBN: 9780415504607 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Something is missing in contemporary health and social care. Health and illness is often measured in policy documents in economic terms, and clinical outcomes are enmeshed in statistical data, with the patient's experience left to one side. This stimulating book is concerned with how to humanise health and social care and keep the person at the centre of practice. Caring and Well-Being opens by articulating Galvin and Todres' innovative framework for humanising health care and closes with a synthesis of their argument and a discussion of how this can be applied in healthcare policy and...
Something is missing in contemporary health and social care. Health and illness is often measured in policy documents in economic terms, and clinical ...
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746,33 zł |
Pastoral Presence In Corporate Healthcare - In Search Of Sustainability
ISBN: 9781463745042 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Finding sustainability for pastoral presence in corporate for-profit healthcare can be a challenge for pastoral care directors. In the midst of corporate acquistions, mid-level managers often become the stabilizing element for staff as corporate shuffling takes place. In this book, many culture challenges stemming from corporate acquisitions have been addressed and solutions explored as the author shares his extensive experience setting the sails of sustainability for pastoral care and presence in corporate run healtchare.This book is a must read for corporate or not-for-profit hospital...
Finding sustainability for pastoral presence in corporate for-profit healthcare can be a challenge for pastoral care directors. In the midst of corpor...
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44,65 zł |