Senior Secrets: Caregiving Advice from the Front Lines
ISBN: 9780595447886 / Angielski / Miękka / 105 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How to Deal With the Elderly successfully
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Get Informed - About the Aging Process and Living at Home Safely Get Support-There are agencies To H... |
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The Complete Bedside Companion: No-Nonsense Advice on Caring for the Seriously Ill
ISBN: 9780684843193 / Angielski / Miękka / 548 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nursing a parent, spouse, other relative, or friend through the painful progress of a terminal disease is not a road best traveled alone. The Complete Bedside Companion offers warmth, encouragement, and the medical, legal, financial, and emotional advice you need when caring for an ailing loved one.
Drawing on the experiences of dozens of ordinary people who have cared for relatives and friends ill or dying from cancer, Alzheimer's disease, heart disease, stroke, emphysema, diabetes, AIDS, and other serious conditions -- along with the practical wisdom of distinguished... Nursing a parent, spouse, other relative, or friend through the painful progress of a terminal disease is not a road best traveled alone. The Co...
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137,96 zł |
Order and Legitimacy: Political Thought in National Spain
ISBN: 9780765802453 / Angielski / Twarda / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A growing body of readers is rediscovering Francis Graham Wilson's tremendous contribution to the study of politics and humane learning. In this volume he offers an extensive assessment of the nature of politics and the search for order in Spanish politics, concentrating on the central figures who defended the Church and communities during the Spanish Civil War. The book argues for the uniqueness of Spain among the other countries of Europe. For Wilson, the most salutary attribute of Spanish politics is found in the assemblage of smaller groupings of the citizenry within the larger society... A growing body of readers is rediscovering Francis Graham Wilson's tremendous contribution to the study of politics and humane learning. In this vo... |
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696,20 zł |
A Philosophical History of Rights
ISBN: 9780765805423 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the seventeenth century, concern in the Western world for the welfare of the individual has been articulated most often as a concern for his rights. The modern conception of individual rights resulted from abandonment of ancient, value-laced ideas of nature and their replacement by the modern, mathematically transparent idea of nature that has room only for individuals, often in confl ict. In A Philosophical History of Rights, Gary B. Herbert reviews the historical evolution of the concept and the transformation of the problems through which the concept is defi ned.
Since the seventeenth century, concern in the Western world for the welfare of the individual has been articulated most often as a concern for his rig...
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226,86 zł |
Moral Freedom
ISBN: 9780765805942 / Angielski / Miękka / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ethics is Nicolai Hartmann's magnum opus on moral philosophy. Volume 1, Moral Phenomena, is concerned with the nature and structure of ethical phenomena. Volume 2, Moral Values, describes all values as forming a complex and imperfectly known system. The final volume, Moral Freedom, deals with one of the oldest puzzles in both philosophy and theology: the individual's freedom of the will. Freedom of the will is a necessary precondition of morality. Without it, there is no morality in the full sense of the word. In Moral Freedom Hartmann... Ethics is Nicolai Hartmann's magnum opus on moral philosophy. Volume 1, Moral Phenomena, is concerned with the nature and structu... |
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247,49 zł |
Communities of Care: Assisted Living for African American Elders
ISBN: 9780801881947 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Very little is known about why and when African American elders seek formal long-term care, or about the characteristics of assisted living environments they consider most desirable. Drawing on qualitative studies conducted between 1998 and 2001, the authors of Communities of Care provide important information on historic and current trends in assisted living systems serving African Americans. Focusing on six facilities that have become models of long-term care for African Americans, the authors shed light on the daily lives of the people who live, work, and visit these... Very little is known about why and when African American elders seek formal long-term care, or about the characteristics of assisted living environ... |
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260,57 zł |
Almost Home: Reforming Home and Community Care in Ontario
ISBN: 9780802086396 / Angielski / Miękka / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Almost Home is a rich and comprehensive study of the policy questions underlying the shift in medical care from hospitals to homes and communities, a change that is reshaping Canadian health care policy and politics. Using document analysis, and interviews with government officials and other key stakeholders in the policy community, the authors analyze the policy content and process of five different attempts to reform home and community care in Ontario between 1985 and 1996, as introduced by governments from three different political parties. As this study demonstrates, the... Almost Home is a rich and comprehensive study of the policy questions underlying the shift in medical care from hospitals to homes and commu... |
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190,82 zł |
Almost Home: Reforming Home and Community Care in Ontario
ISBN: 9780802089656 / Angielski / Twarda / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Almost Home is a rich and comprehensive study of the policy questions underlying the shift in medical care from hospitals to homes and communities, a change that is reshaping Canadian health care policy and politics. Using document analysis, and interviews with government officials and other key stakeholders in the policy community, the authors analyze the policy content and process of five different attempts to reform home and community care in Ontario between 1985 and 1996, as introduced by governments from three different political parties. As this study demonstrates, the... Almost Home is a rich and comprehensive study of the policy questions underlying the shift in medical care from hospitals to homes and commu... |
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363,71 zł |
The Complete Guide to Alzheimer's Proofing Your Home
ISBN: 9781557532022 / Angielski / Miękka / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written by a practicing architect and gerontologist, The Complete Guide to Alzheimer's-Proofing Your Home shows you how to create a home environment that will help you cope with the many difficulties associated with Alzheimer's. This unique book is divided into two sections to provide the most thorough coverage available. Section One deals with interior and exterior spaces individually, providing key information on how to ensure that the Alzheimer's patient will be safe and secure. Section Two gives a detailed list of potential problems related to Alzheimer's and practical...
Written by a practicing architect and gerontologist, The Complete Guide to Alzheimer's-Proofing Your Home shows you how to create a home envi...
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162,34 zł |
The Social Crisis of Our Time
ISBN: 9781560005803 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Roepke's The Social Crisis of Our Time is a series of blasts against the "malfor-mations" of economics: the Nazi and Communist forms of collectivism both come in for severe criticism. Roepke shows the process by which the Western liberal tradition itself makes possible these rebellions against open economic systems. The drive toward social welfare, full employment policies, and the state management of fi scal fl uctuations all lead away from free societies no less than market economies.
Roepke's The Social Crisis of Our Time is a series of blasts against the "malfor-mations" of economics: the Nazi and Communist forms of collectivism b...
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237,17 zł |
God of the Machine
ISBN: 9781560006664 / Angielski / Miękka / 366 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The God of the Machine presents an original theory of history and a bold defense of individualism as the source of moral and political progress. When it was published in 1943, Isabel Paterson's work provided fresh intellectual support for the endangered American belief in individual rights, limited government, and economic freedom. The crisis of today's collectivized nations would not have surprised Paterson; in The God of the Machine, she had explored the reasons for collectivism's failure. Her book placed her in the vanguard of the free-enterprise movement now sweeping... The God of the Machine presents an original theory of history and a bold defense of individualism as the source of moral and political pro... |
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237,17 zł |
The Jewish East Side: 1881-1924
ISBN: 9781560008422 / Angielski / Miękka / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book, originally published as The Old East Side, is a collection of literature and documents ranging from the autobiography of the sculptor Jacob Epstein and the novels of Abraham Cahan to the reporting of William Dean Howells and the fictional reconstruction of a vanished world by Henry Roth. The world is that of the old shtetl transplanted to a new, growing country, where "the ghetto" (in the years 1881-1924) was an unstable mixture of nostalgic elements and the pressures of American economic and social reality. The productivity, both intellectual and material, of the... This book, originally published as The Old East Side, is a collection of literature and documents ranging from the autobiography of the sc... |
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154,67 zł |
The Bipolar Dementia Art Chronicles: How a Manic-Depressive Artist Survives Being the Primary Caregiver for Her Father and Ex-Mother-in-Law - A Memoir
ISBN: 9781591138549 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A bipolar artist becomes the primary caregiver for her father who suffers from dementia, and for her elderly ex-mother-in-law. The author deals with assisted-living facilities, nursing homes, and hospitals, finally finding help for herself and some understanding of her task.
A bipolar artist becomes the primary caregiver for her father who suffers from dementia, and for her elderly ex-mother-in-law. The author deals with a...
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81,69 zł |
Living with Cancer as a New Normal: A Journey with Cancer Through the Eyes of a Caregiver
ISBN: 9780595448999 / Angielski / Miękka / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dianna Mitchell Marston, Author She has 6 years of hands-on experience while care giving for her husband as they discovered "Living With Cancer as "A New Normal"." Through research and medical conferences she discovered many options for cancer treatments and care giving from around the world which include chemotherapy, radiation, bone marrow transplants, nutritional options, spiritual and holistic treatments, medical care and assistance through care giving. She explores options while navigating through the medical community, insurance world and Social Security system. Her insight touches on...
Dianna Mitchell Marston, Author She has 6 years of hands-on experience while care giving for her husband as they discovered "Living With Cancer as "A ...
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48,56 zł |
Pod- Transforming Home Care
ISBN: 9780834210721 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The authors of this book assess the current home health care environment in light of quality, cost and data collection issues. The book examines how to use data to achieve excellence (not just to satisfy regulators) and to derive information which can then be used to improve performance.
The authors of this book assess the current home health care environment in light of quality, cost and data collection issues. The book examines how t...
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813,84 zł |
Gerontological Home Health Care: A Guide for the Social Work Practitioner
ISBN: 9780231124652 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Longer life expectancy, the aging baby boom population, and increasing numbers of older adults with chronic health conditions who want to remain at home are generating an urgent need for providers who possess specialized knowledge and skills in home heath care. Answering the urgent call for a textbook that deals with specifically with adults in this setting, Goldie Kadushin and Marcia Egan synthesize empirical research to extract practical applications for practice, emphasizing the "how to" of gerontological home health care by discussing the field's most relevant issues. The authors include...
Longer life expectancy, the aging baby boom population, and increasing numbers of older adults with chronic health conditions who want to remain at ho...
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190,00 zł |
Gerontological Home Health Care: A Guide for the Social Work Practitioner
ISBN: 9780231124645 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Longer life expectancy, the aging baby boom population, and increasing numbers of older adults with chronic health conditions who want to remain at home are generating an urgent need for providers who possess specialized knowledge and skills in home heath care. Answering the urgent call for a textbook that deals with specifically with adults in this setting, Goldie Kadushin and Marcia Egan synthesize empirical research to extract practical applications for practice, emphasizing the "how to" of gerontological home health care by discussing the field's most relevant issues. The authors include...
Longer life expectancy, the aging baby boom population, and increasing numbers of older adults with chronic health conditions who want to remain at ho...
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542,85 zł |
Lord George Bentinck: A Political History
ISBN: 9781560009474 / Angielski / Miękka / 382 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lord George Bentinck is an account of Disraeli's relation with his parliamentary colleague and friend. It is not simply an account of the battle over the Corn Laws with Sir Robert Peel, but a most remarkable book, extremely readable, and full of often quoted and apt comments and descriptions. As a vivid story of one of the great parliamentary dramas in British history it is unsurpassed. The portraits of both Bentinck and Peel are both sympathetic and just. The book provides insight into mid-nineteenth century parliamentary life that remains unsurpassed. It is hard to... Lord George Bentinck is an account of Disraeli's relation with his parliamentary colleague and friend. It is not simply an account of the ... |
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154,67 zł |
Irving Babbitt, Literature and the Democratic Culture
ISBN: 9781560001133 / Angielski / Twarda / 135 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a sustained inquiry into the thought of the influential scholar and critic Irving Babbitt (1865-1933), intellectual leader of the movement known as the New Humanism. Milton Hindus considers the subjects that most interested Babbitt: ethics, literature, education, and social and political conservatism in the United States. In their most general sense, his concerns were man and his nature as the root of all social order. For Babbitt, efforts to improve social conditions must begin and end with the individual human being. In rejecting notions that society is primarily... This is a sustained inquiry into the thought of the influential scholar and critic Irving Babbitt (1865-1933), intellectual leader of the movement... |
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438,30 zł |
The Power in the People
ISBN: 9781412813426 / Angielski / Miękka / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The United States of America was established with lofty moral goals and noble purpose; it was believed that a government based on these ethical principles was the proper way to realize liberty and freedom. As the country continues to grow, from the days of the colonies to the influential nation that it is today, the governmental structure has grown and developed along with it into a unique type of government that profoundly affects the lives of the American people. Power in the People presents a detailed analysis of not only the origins of democracy, development and... The United States of America was established with lofty moral goals and noble purpose; it was believed that a government based on these ethical pri... |
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226,86 zł |