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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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111,71 zł |
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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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167,87 zł |
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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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60,69 zł |
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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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733,16 zł |
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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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40,26 zł |
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My Bingo Pals
ISBN: 9781466362000 / Angielski / Miękka / 38 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a book about seniors at a health care center and their love of the game of bingo, as told by the author, a senior himself. He tells of his experience as a volunteer bingo caller at the center. His tale begins with how as a retiree he began calling bingo for seniors, and he goes on by giving insight into the health care center itself, it's administrative staff, doctors and nurses, and then he turns to the main theme of the book, that being the authors encounters with seniors, and certain caregivers while calling bingo over a three year period. He chooses a number of these...
This is a book about seniors at a health care center and their love of the game of bingo, as told by the author, a senior himself. He tells of his exp...
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40,38 zł |
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Multiple Sclerosis, an Enigma: Finding a diagnosis but not a cure
ISBN: 9781466461444 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The true story of a middle-aged woman being unexpectedly diagnosed with a young person's disease: multiple sclerosis. The journey to diagnosis and the reality of the treatment brought a premature end to her career as a public school teacher. Life in "the sandwich generation" of adults caring for both their elder parents and their children, while balancing full time employment, is discussed with gentle empathy. The difficult economics and the changes in family responsibilities are also a part of this story. The consistent, caring support of family and friends and a mutual respect between...
The true story of a middle-aged woman being unexpectedly diagnosed with a young person's disease: multiple sclerosis. The journey to diagnosis and the...
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48,55 zł |
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Leaning into Sharp Points: Practical Guidance and Nurturing Support for Caregivers
ISBN: 9781608680672 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Whether you re coping with a loved one who has received a terminal diagnosis, has a long-term illness or disability, or suffers with dementia, caregiving is challenging and crucial. Those who face this responsibility, whether occasionally or 24/7, are brushing up against life s sharpest point. In this book, Stan Goldberg offers an honest, caring, and comprehensive guide to those on this journey. Everyone wants to do the right thing, and this book provides the often-elusive how-to from bedside etiquette to advice on initiating difficult conversations, caring for oneself while caring for...
Whether you re coping with a loved one who has received a terminal diagnosis, has a long-term illness or disability, or suffers with dementia, caregiv...
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57,61 zł |
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Dignifying Dementia
ISBN: 9781904887720 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Diagnosed with dementia in 1997, my husband, Jim, lived at home during his illness and died there in January 2006. I wish this story were fiction, but it is not. Dignifying Dementia is both a love story and an attempt to reach out to others who are living through or who will live through a similar tragedy.
Diagnosed with dementia in 1997, my husband, Jim, lived at home during his illness and died there in January 2006. I wish this story were fiction, but...
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55,89 zł |
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Where Have All the Mothers Gone? Stories of Courage and Hope During Childbirth Among the World's Poorest Women
ISBN: 9781906619268 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While childbirth is a normal part of most womens lives and a process which usually proceeds without any real risk, for the worlds poorest women this is often not the case. Poverty, malnutrition, female genital mutilation, child marriage and AIDS put these women in a high risk bracket from Day 1 of their pregnancies. To make matters worse, when things go wrong they often have no easy access to healthcare, when they get to a clinic or hospital skilled staff may not be available or, if they are, the drugs and equipment they need may well not be at their disposal. War, natural disasters and a...
While childbirth is a normal part of most womens lives and a process which usually proceeds without any real risk, for the worlds poorest women this i...
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131,02 zł |
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Caring for Patients: A Critique of the Medical Model
ISBN: 9780804731539 / Angielski / Miękka / 420 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An experienced and compassionate physician questions the prevailing medical model of patient care-that every illness has a physical cause that can be identified and treated medically-and argues for the necessity of taking the psychological and social situation of the patient into account in the process of diagnosis and treatment.
An experienced and compassionate physician questions the prevailing medical model of patient care-that every illness has a physical cause that can be ...
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173,41 zł |
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A Daily Difference
ISBN: 9780980185546 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Demonstrating how easy it can be for people to make charitable giving part of their daily routine, this edition contains dozens of real-life stories from those who have made small daily changes that have resulted in huge sums of money being raised for charities.
Demonstrating how easy it can be for people to make charitable giving part of their daily routine, this edition contains dozens of real-life stories f...
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86,32 zł |
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Carersâ (Tm) Stories: Walking Alongside a Person with Dementia
ISBN: 9781443851497 / Angielski / Twarda / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It is estimated that 750,000 people are living with dementia in the UK and 500,000 partners, family members and friends are involved in caring for someone with dementia at a value of 6 billion a year, if care was provided by health and social care services (Department of Health, 2009). This book is about hearing the stories of six carers; half the carers identified as lesbian or gay. The findings were illuminating, as the carers did not experience the person with dementia as a burden, but rather found contact with health and social care services to be burdensome due to the fragmentation of...
It is estimated that 750,000 people are living with dementia in the UK and 500,000 partners, family members and friends are involved in caring for som...
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205,75 zł |
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Relative Matters - the essential guide to finding your way around the care system for older people
ISBN: 9781907498978 / Angielski / Miękka / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. More people than ever are having to fund their own care without professional help to navigate what has become a very complex care system. This book sets out all your options in an easy to digest format so that you will feel confident about planning for your loved one's care and avoid the mistakes and massive disruption that comes from supporting an elderly relative without a professional to support you. When you read this book you will be able to: 1. Better navigate the complex British care system for older people 2. Choose a homecare agency or care home with confidence 3. Be aware of the...
More people than ever are having to fund their own care without professional help to navigate what has become a very complex care system. This book se...
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107,90 zł |
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Making Myself at Home in a Nursing Home: Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN: 9780826518651 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sandra Gaffney entered her first nursing home for long-term care at the unusually young age of fifty. Fourteen years earlier she had been diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. Over the next sixteen years, Gaffney lived in nursing homes in Florida, Virginia, and Minnesota, as the ways she could be close to family changed. She describes her situation in these words: "As a nursing home resident, I require total or maximum care. I have limited use of my hands and arms. With special splints, I am able to turn the pages of my books, use the...
Sandra Gaffney entered her first nursing home for long-term care at the unusually young age of fifty. Fourteen years earlier she had been diagnosed wi...
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221,82 zł |
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Pathways : A Guidebook for Dementia & Alzheimer's Family Caregivers
ISBN: 9781432781286 / Angielski / Miękka / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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86,10 zł |
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The Caregiver - The Second Cancer Patient: Making Better Lemonade
ISBN: 9781470197056 / Angielski / Miękka / 44 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written by a caregiver who lost his wife to cancer. He hopes this book of practical, daily tools that he used will help someone else in a similar circumstance.
Written by a caregiver who lost his wife to cancer. He hopes this book of practical, daily tools that he used will help someone else in a similar circ...
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44,51 zł |
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iCare Express: The Companion Express Workbook for iCare Stress Management Training for Dementia Caregivers
ISBN: 9781461094999 / Angielski / Miękka / 34 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Express workbook for the iCare educational program for helping caregivers of individuals with dementia or memory loss to overcome stressful situations in their caregiver role. This workbook includes the key forms and related instructions of the iCare program. The iCare training was specifically created for caregivers of individuals with dementia or memory loss. This comprehensive program demonstrates the skills on how to cope with caregiving, reduce related distress, and improve the quality of life of caregivers and loved ones. This informative program was developed by... Express workbook for the iCare educational program for helping caregivers of individuals with dementia or memory loss to overcome stressful situati... |
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60,65 zł |
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We Carried the Mat: My Faith Journey as a Primary Caregiver ...and How a Community Made All the Difference
ISBN: 9781449749552 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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63,97 zł |
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We Carried the Mat: My Faith Journey as a Primary Caregiver ...and How a Community Made All the Difference
ISBN: 9781449749545 / Angielski / Twarda / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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141,93 zł |
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