Learning to Speak Alzheimer's: A Groundbreaking Approach for Everyone Dealing with the Disease
ISBN: 9780618485178 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For over 30 years, Joanne Koenig Coste has practised a communication-based form of care. This encouraging book shows how, by following a few straightforward and simple ideas, the quality of life of sufferers can be dramatically improved, and their dignity and self-respect renewed.
For over 30 years, Joanne Koenig Coste has practised a communication-based form of care. This encouraging book shows how, by following a few straightf...
|
|
cena:
75,94 zł |
Health and Wellbeing for Older People : Foundations for Practice
ISBN: 9780702023156 / Angielski / Miękka / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This unique book provides one of the first and certainly the most practical approach to considering the needs of this population. It addresses important issues such as choice, partnership, and community development in order that health promoters can work with and alongside older people to ensure that their health needs are addressed. The text contains numerous examples of good practice and is intentionally interactive, encouraging practitioners to reflect upon and question the assumptions that they make about the health and life-quality expectations for which older people have the potential....
This unique book provides one of the first and certainly the most practical approach to considering the needs of this population. It addresses importa...
|
|
cena:
156,72 zł |
Age through Ethnic Lenses: Caring for the Elderly in a Multicultural Society
ISBN: 9780742501133 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. America is getting older, but her policies are not growing with the ethnic and ageing societies needs. This text explores the distinct characteristics and unique political, economic and cultural situations of the aged, while highlighting the common needs and objectives among all ageing Americans.
America is getting older, but her policies are not growing with the ethnic and ageing societies needs. This text explores the distinct characteristics...
|
|
cena:
766,58 zł |
Age Through Ethnic Lenses: Caring for the Elderly in a Multicultural Society
ISBN: 9780742501140 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An ever-more diverse America is getting older, but American policies are not growing with the needs of the ethnic and ageing society. This text explores the distinct characteristics and unique social, political, economic and cultural situations of America's aged, while highlighting the common needs and objectives among all ageing Americans. origins, Native Americans, socio-relgious groups, women, gay men and women and the rural aged this study broadens our perspective on the issues of long-term care, and provides a valuable guide for future public policy as we enter the 21st century.
An ever-more diverse America is getting older, but American policies are not growing with the needs of the ethnic and ageing society. This text explor...
|
|
cena:
292,79 zł |
Health, Illness, and Optimal Aging: Biological and Psychosocial Perspectives
ISBN: 9780761922599 / Angielski / Miękka / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Health, Illness and Optimal Aging undertakes the difficult task of assembling an objective and holistic picture of human aging, including the physical aspects of aging, chronic disease, and health promotion in the later years, for students and professionals. Aldwin and Gilmar provide comprehensive, multi-disciplinary coverage of the demography of the aging population, theories of aging, and physical aging, including normal age-related changes, disease-related processes, and promotion of optimal aging. They also cover psychosocial aspects of aging, including mental health, stress and coping,...
Health, Illness and Optimal Aging undertakes the difficult task of assembling an objective and holistic picture of human aging, including the physical...
|
|
cena:
611,94 zł |
Into the House of Old: A History of Residential Care in British Columbia: Volume 14
ISBN: 9780773526457 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Davies' study of institutional life is multi-textured, informed by social and architectural theory while telling us much about daily life in these facilities. We learn about angry rebellion and harsh discipline, fun and festivals, death and compassion. And we see how the twentieth century witnessed the gradual withdrawal of these institutions from the life of the community, further enhancing the marginal place of the old age home in our society. Chronicling the evolution of professional ideas about residential care facilities and an innovative program to move elderly patients out of acute...
Davies' study of institutional life is multi-textured, informed by social and architectural theory while telling us much about daily life in these fac...
|
|
cena:
138,36 zł |
Counseling the Older Adult: A Training Manual in Clinical Gerontology
ISBN: 9780787939410 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An invaluable, step-by-step guide for understanding the basic problems and concerns of the growing population of adults over the age of 65. Based on years of clinical research and testing, this book provides a thorough review of critical information on older adults, the aging process, and mental health issues.
Organized into a useful workbook format, the book is filled with brief lectures, quizzes, exercises, and sample forms. These training materials are designed to help counselors build the interpersonal skills needed to provide aid and comfort for senior citizens requiring... An invaluable, step-by-step guide for understanding the basic problems and concerns of the growing population of adults over the age of 65. Based on y...
|
|
cena:
233,97 zł |
Geriatric Drug Therapy Interventions
ISBN: 9780789003942 / Angielski / Twarda / 73 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Medication costs and common drug-related problems, such as misapplication of therapy, medication misuse, and adverse effects, can often be avoided or reduced. Geriatric Drug Therapy Interventions will help you get better outcomes with your patients as it points out pitfalls to avoid and provides you with logical principles for administering drug therapy. Offering guidelines, advice, and gentle reminders, this book shows you the importance of properly documenting patient problems and of considering the entire medical history of your patients. It also helps you perform fall and psychoactive...
Medication costs and common drug-related problems, such as misapplication of therapy, medication misuse, and adverse effects, can often be avoided or ...
|
|
cena:
556,31 zł |
Mental Health Practice in Geriatric Health Care Settings
ISBN: 9780789004352 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mental Health Practice in Geriatric Health Care Settings emphasizes the major research and clinical findings realized in five years of research on mental health issues in older urban medical patients, many of whom represent minority groups. Chapters cover the high comorbidity of health and mental health problems in geriatric patients, neuropsychological (or cognitive) assessment, depression, alcohol abuse in health care settings, emerging behavioral medicine issues, and family relations and their tie to medical settings. As a practitioner, you ll find this book helps your practice by...
Mental Health Practice in Geriatric Health Care Settings emphasizes the major research and clinical findings realized in five years of research on men...
|
|
cena:
217,41 zł |
Charting a Course for High Quality Care Transitions
ISBN: 9780789037428 / Angielski / Twarda / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Transitional care is crucial to older adults with complex care needs who are moving between different locations or different levels of care. Charting a Course for High Quality Care Transitions addresses this problem by providing leading experts and leaders in the field discussing practical strategies that ensure care quality and safety for transitioning vulnerable older adults. This helpful resource comprehensively discusses current research, quality improvement, risk targeting, risk identification, patterns of care, care coordination, and performance assessment. This informative text is...
Transitional care is crucial to older adults with complex care needs who are moving between different locations or different levels of care. Charting ...
|
|
cena:
708,03 zł |
Ethics in an Aging Society
ISBN: 9780801853975 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Recent years have seen a growing interest in the questions of ethics and aging. Advances in medical technology have created dilemmas for physicians, nurses, and other health care professionals over such questions as the allocation of resources and a patient's -right to die.- At the same time, the aging of the American population raises concerns about social policies that involve the role of government. In Ethics in an Aging Society Harry R. Moody examines both the clinical and the policy issues that center around aging. Moody pays special attention to the ethical problems... Recent years have seen a growing interest in the questions of ethics and aging. Advances in medical technology have created dilemmas for physicians... |
|
cena:
154,38 zł |
The Moral Challenge of Alzheimer Disease: Ethical Issues from Diagnosis to Dying
ISBN: 9780801864100 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Society today, writes Stephen Post, is -hypercognitive-: it places inordinate emphasis on people's powers of rational thinking and memory. Thus, Alzheimer disease and other dementias, which over an extended period incrementally rob patients of exactly those functions, raise many dilemmas. How are we to view--and value--persons deprived of what some consider the most important human capacities? In the second edition of The Moral Challenge of Alzheimer Disease, Post updates his highly praised account of the major ethical issues relating to dementia care. With chapters organized... Society today, writes Stephen Post, is -hypercognitive-: it places inordinate emphasis on people's powers of rational thinking and memory. Thus, Al... |
|
cena:
141,08 zł |
Providing Community-Based Services to the Rural Elderly
ISBN: 9780803946965 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book brings together information from both researchers and practitioners on a wide range of community-based services that are available to and needed by the rural elderly in the United States.
Specific topics examined include: senior centres; referral systems; housing and transportation; employment and retirement; and health promotion and health care. Krout provides section overviews as well as an informative, thorough introduction and epilogue that highlight common themes and issues. This book brings together information from both researchers and practitioners on a wide range of community-based services that are available to and ne...
|
|
cena:
611,94 zł |
Social Policy and Aging: A Critical Perspective
ISBN: 9780803973473 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This groundbreaking book provides comprehensive treatment of the political economy of aging by a scholar widely credited as the founder and key thinker of this field in the US and internationally. The body of work presented in this volume, in developing this critical perspective, aims to contribute to the understanding of old age and aging in the context of problems and issues of the larger social order in the world's most advanced capitalist nation, the U.S.A. Since Estes' first writing on the political economy of aging in 1979, there has been growing recognition and incorporation of her...
This groundbreaking book provides comprehensive treatment of the political economy of aging by a scholar widely credited as the founder and key thinke...
|
|
cena:
611,94 zł |
Empowering Grandparents Raising Grandchildren: A Training Manual for Group Leaders
ISBN: 9780826113160 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This manual is a 14-session workshop designed to help grandparents who are raising their grandchildren alone. Group leaders can revise and expand upon the themes presented here to fit the needs of their particular work groups. Some of the main issues that are explored are: useful tips for grandparents on how to communicate effectively with their grandchildren on all topics ranging from drugs and sex, to sexually transmitted diseases; helping them learn how to deal with loss and abandonment issues; helping them develop and maintain self-esteem; dealing with special behavior problems; and... This manual is a 14-session workshop designed to help grandparents who are raising their grandchildren alone. Group leaders can revise and expand u... |
|
cena:
303,39 zł |
Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Volume 15, 1995: Focus on Nutrition
ISBN: 9780826164971 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Proper nutrition, weight, and exercise have all been strongly linked to improved health and longevity among the elderly. This timely volume presents the latest medical research on nutrition and its impact on healthy aging in a variety of older populations and in a range of care settings. Topics include the diagnosis and management of protein undernutrition; psychological and social factors in weight loss; the effects of vitamins and exercise on aging; and more. This volume will appeal to geriatricians, geriatric researchers and academics, as well as to other health professionals concerned...
Proper nutrition, weight, and exercise have all been strongly linked to improved health and longevity among the elderly. This timely volume presents t...
|
|
cena:
452,07 zł |
Old Age in a New Age: The Promise of Transformative Nursing Homes
ISBN: 9780826515629 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On investigative visits to nursing homes across the nation, Beth Baker has witnessed profound changes. Culture change leaders are tearing up everything--the floor plans, the flow charts, the schedules, the lousy menus, the attitudes, the rules--and starting from scratch. They are creating extraordinary places where people live in dignity and greet the day with contentment, assisted by employees who feel valued and appreciated. Perhaps most surprising, these homes prove that a high quality of life does not have to cost more. Some of the best homes in the nation serve primarily low-income...
On investigative visits to nursing homes across the nation, Beth Baker has witnessed profound changes. Culture change leaders are tearing up everythin...
|
|
cena:
596,95 zł |
Brain Aging: Models, Methods, and Mechanisms
ISBN: 9780849338182 / Angielski / Twarda / 412 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Recognition that aging is not the accumulation of disease, but rather comprises fundamental biological processes that are amenable to experimental study, is the basis for the recent growth of experimental biogerontology. As increasingly sophisticated studies provide greater understanding of what occurs in the aging brain and how these changes occur, new possibilities emerge for limiting the effects of aging on neural function. A single source reference is necessary to keep abreast of the recent advances and future directions of gerontology research.
Brain Aging: Models, Methods,... Recognition that aging is not the accumulation of disease, but rather comprises fundamental biological processes that are amenable to experimental stu...
|
|
cena:
885,03 zł |
Early Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease
ISBN: 9780896034525 / Angielski / Twarda / 359 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drs. Leonard Scinto and Kirk Daffner provide a comprehensive survey of new diagnostic approaches to Alzheimer's disease. The authoritative contributors critically survey the most promising current research on early diagnostic markers for Alzheimer's disease, including the elucidation of changes in the brain revealed by structural and functional neuroimaging, as well as the characteristic patterns of cognitive decline that are documented by sensitive neuropsychological tests, various genetic markers, and biological assays. Early Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease illuminates the complex issues...
Drs. Leonard Scinto and Kirk Daffner provide a comprehensive survey of new diagnostic approaches to Alzheimer's disease. The authoritative contributor...
|
|
cena:
582,32 zł |
Alzheimer's Disease
ISBN: 9780896037373 / Angielski / Twarda / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Alzheimer's disease is the most common cause of senile dementia. Since the discovery in 1984 of the amyloid ?-peptide (A?) as the core protein of the senile plaques present in the brains of Alzheimer's disease sufferers, an immense amount of research has gone into mapping out the molecular basis of this debilitating disease. The aim of Alzheimer's Disease: Methods and Protocols is to bring together the main biochemical, cell biological, and molecular biological techniques and approaches that are being used to investigate the molecular basis of Alzheimer's disease. This volume begins with...
Alzheimer's disease is the most common cause of senile dementia. Since the discovery in 1984 of the amyloid ?-peptide (A?) as the core protein of the ...
|
|
cena:
388,20 zł |