Kategoria BISAC: Medical >> Caregiving

An injury to the brain can affect every aspect of a person's daily life, including physical abilities and psychological make-up, relationships and family roles, school and employment, recreation and leisure. At the hospital, you may hear a lot about brain injury but not realize the importance of what you've learned until you have to deal with the injured person at home. In this handy reference book, health-care and legal experts from Canada and the United States guide you through the process of rehabilitation and help you learn how to live with brain injury. The advice of these...

""""Caregiving"" has a big heart-on a much-needed topic. A rare book of spiritual and practical wisdom.""
--Sue Bender, author of ""Plain and Simple"" and ""Everyday Sacred""

""A poignant, wise, and in-the-trenches view of caregiving that is both practical and spiritual, especially of value to midlife adults.""
--Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D., author of ""Goddesses in Everywoman"" and ""Close to the Bone""

""Lovely. . . . Beth McLeod's experience and wisdom shine through as she shares her heartfelt journey of loss, surrender,...

Joe and Wanda found each other in midlife. Deeply in love, they'd just bought their new home when Joe's diagnosis of early-onset Alzheimer's changed everything. "Until death do us part" took on an immediate, deeply personal meaning.

"White Knight "recounts the couple's four-year journey through Alzheimer's, a journey that ended with Joe's death. Initially Wanda, like many caregivers, mourned for the husband she used to have, teetering between despair and panic while she adapted to the couple's new reality.

Then something wonderful happened. Wanda came to a realization that helped her...

Healthcare providers in the American medical system may find that patients from different cultures bring unfamiliar expectations, anxieties, and needs into the examination room. To provide optimal care for all patients, it is important to see differences from the patient's perspective and to work with patients from a range of demographics. Caring for Patients from Different Cultures has been a vital resource for nurses and physicians for more than twenty years, offering hundreds of case studies that illustrate crosscultural conflicts or misunderstandings as well as examples of...