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The Palliative Care and Hospice Caregiver's Workbook: Sharing the Journey with the Dying
ISBN: 9781846193842 / Angielski / Miękka / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This educational workbook helps people who build compassionate relationships with dying people. Accompanied by its Educator's Guide, it presents a comprehensive, sequential learning program for caregivers in non-medical capacities covering everything from self-understanding to spiritual issues, listening skills and expressive activities, developing the skills, awareness and resilience needed for this privileged and sensitive role. The program includes a variety of learning experiences, including large and small group activities, discussion, close reading, creative writing, self exploration,...
This educational workbook helps people who build compassionate relationships with dying people. Accompanied by its Educator's Guide, it presents a com...
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Kris's Story: Battling Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
ISBN: 9781432759001 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Kris's Story is a truly warm and touching narrative of the courageous personal and emotional battle fought by a beautiful young vibrant woman against the brutal and tragic consequences of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease. This story describes the transformation and rapid demise of a picture perfect healthy, physically fit, loving wife and mother succumb to a brutal disease process that managed to elude the practice of modern medicine. An unbelievable account of the impact and profound ramifications of the lethal wrath this horrendous disease thrusts upon unsuspecting family members is described in...
Kris's Story is a truly warm and touching narrative of the courageous personal and emotional battle fought by a beautiful young vibrant woman against ...
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Multivariate and Mixture Distribution Rasch Models: Extensions and Applications
ISBN: 9781441921963 / Angielski / Miękka / 398 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume gathers together a set of extensions of the Rasch model, one of the most prominent models for measurement in educational research and - cial science developed by Danish mathematician Georg Rasch. The idea for this volume emerged during a meeting of the Psychometric Society in M- terey, CA. At that meeting, friends and colleagues discussed news about the impending retirement of Dr. Jurgen ] Rost, an important innovator and m- tor in this ?eld. To recognize Jurgen's ] contributions, we decided to produce a collection of research on extending the Rasch model as well as embedding the...
This volume gathers together a set of extensions of the Rasch model, one of the most prominent models for measurement in educational research and - ci...
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Advances in Quality-Of-Life Theory and Research
ISBN: 9789048163649 / Angielski / Miękka / 269 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Advances in Quality-of-Life Theory and Research is relevant to quality-of-life researchers working in the areas of Social Medicine, Sustainable Development, Social Indicators Research and Health Psychology/Behavioral Medicine.
This volume contains 14 chapters that represent a culmination of programmatic research in the science of quality of life (QOL). Each chapter offers interesting findings in different areas of QOL research and, together, the chapters reflect the very basic premise that QOL research is a broad interdisciplinary topic explored in a multidisciplinary... Advances in Quality-of-Life Theory and Research is relevant to quality-of-life researchers working in the areas of Social Medicine, S...
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Medical Decisions, Estrogen and Aging
ISBN: 9789048176991 / Angielski / Miękka / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. If you are a woman between the ages of 45 and 75 and are trying to decide whether to try, or stick with, hormone therapy (HT), or if you are a physician with patients fitting this description, this book is for you unless you are looking for a simple answer. If you are looking for a simple answer, you can go to the web site of one of the companies that manufactures hormones or makes money by administering hormone therapy (e. g., AntiAgingGroup. com), or you can go to the we bsite of an organization that advocates natural aging (e. g., the Inter National Organization to Reclaim Menopause;...
If you are a woman between the ages of 45 and 75 and are trying to decide whether to try, or stick with, hormone therapy (HT), or if you are a physici...
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Key Concepts in Palliative Care
ISBN: 9781848608719 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Do you need a succinct introduction to the key theories and principles of palliative care and their application to practice?
Key Concepts in Palliative Care provides just this in a compact, fifty-concept guide to the field. Taking account of the government's "End of Life Care Strategy," contributors set out the key issues affecting practice across a range of health and social care contexts. The book covers topics ranging from dying and death to symptom management and spiritual care, backed up with practical examples. Each entry comprises: o a snapshot definition of the topic o key... Do you need a succinct introduction to the key theories and principles of palliative care and their application to practice?
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Role of Physical Exercise in Preventing Disease and Improving the Quality of Life
ISBN: 9788847015531 / Angielski / Miękka / 221 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The aim of this volume is to underline that promoting physical activity is crucial to preventing illness and maintaining our health, thus leading to a reduction in healthcare costs. Over the last decade studies have shown that physical exercise plays an important role in maintaining an individual's psycho-physical balance. Physical activity therefore helps in tackling today's major health challenges, including diabetes, high blood pressure, and cardiorespiratory diseases.
The aim of this volume is to underline that promoting physical activity is crucial to preventing illness and maintaining our health, thus leading t... |
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Care-Related Quality of Life in Old Age: Concepts, Models, and Empirical Findings
ISBN: 9781441924674 / Angielski / Miękka / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The ageing of populations across the world poses a crucial challenge for the twenty-first century. Society faces three major changes: firstly, increasing numbers of active older people demanding new social structures and oppor- nities; secondly, increasing numbers of frail or disabled older people requiring new interventions and improved health and social care with resulting economic consequences; and finally complex economic, technological, organisational and social challenges involved in the ageing of society. If society wants to benefit from these changes, innovative social, organisational...
The ageing of populations across the world poses a crucial challenge for the twenty-first century. Society faces three major changes: firstly, increas...
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Sanità E Web: Come Internet Ha Cambiato Il Modo Di Essere Medico E Malato in Italia
ISBN: 9788847019584 / Włoski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In questi anni l utilizzo del Web ha profondamente trasformato la vita quotidiana di uomini e donne, intervenendo sul vissuto contemporaneo oltre che sulle sue forme di comunicazione. Anche il parlare di salute oggi non e possibile se non nella consapevolezza di quanto Internet stia cambiando antropologicamente il presente di chi e malato e di chi cura. Il libro "Sanita e web" e la prima indagine realizzata in Italia su quanto il web abbia cambiato i differenti modi di pensare alla salute, tanto da giungere a una sostanziale modificazione della stessa Alleanza Terapeutica . I punti di vista...
In questi anni l utilizzo del Web ha profondamente trasformato la vita quotidiana di uomini e donne, intervenendo sul vissuto contemporaneo oltre che ...
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Palliative Care Nursing of Children and Young People
ISBN: 9781846190193 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Children's palliative care is an evolving specialty and as such our knowledge base cannot remain static. This book constantly challenges the reader to critically analyze their own practices and beliefs within an evidence-based framework and as such makes a valuable contribution to the growing body of knowledge on this important subject." - Susan Fowler-Kerry, in the Foreword. This book caters for readers from different working environments and levels of experience. It is ideal for paediatric nurses with no specialist palliative care knowledge, and also for palliative care nurses with no...
"Children's palliative care is an evolving specialty and as such our knowledge base cannot remain static. This book constantly challenges the reader t...
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Last Flight Out: Living, Loving & Leaving
ISBN: 9780982726228 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Above all, Phyllis Langton's memoir, Last Flight Out: Living, Loving & Leaving, is a passionate love story, one that deepens as she and her husband George Thomas live their way into the experience of ALS, its unremitting losses and its surprising gifts, with dignity, keen humor, a fighter pilot's courage and a nurse's unsentimental pragmatism. "I know what's going to be on my death certificate. That's more than you can say," George tells her after receiving his diagnosis. How they are going to live the time that remains to them as a couple is also not in question, for they are equally...
Above all, Phyllis Langton's memoir, Last Flight Out: Living, Loving & Leaving, is a passionate love story, one that deepens as she and her husband Ge...
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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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A Good Death: An Argument for Voluntary Euthanasia
ISBN: 9780522855036 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "A Good Death" is his candid and provocative account of the experiences of many terminally ill people Dr Rodney Syme has assisted to end their lives. Over the past thirty years Syme has challenged the law on voluntary euthanasia-at first clandestinely and now publicly-risking prosecution in doing so. He again risks prosecution for writing this book. "A Good Death" is a moving journey with those who came to Syme for help, and a meditation on what it means in our culture to confront death. It is also a doctor's personal story about the moral dilemmas and ethical choices he faces working within...
"A Good Death" is his candid and provocative account of the experiences of many terminally ill people Dr Rodney Syme has assisted to end their lives. ...
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Personal Care in an Impersonal World: A Multidimensional Look at Bereavement
ISBN: 9780895031099 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The purpose of this volume is to ask and propose a positive answer to the question: "Can we attend to the personhood of individuals within systems and cultures which are mass oriented?" One of the most interesting changes in contemporary thinking has been the emphasis on the unique person. While the distinction between a person (a unique rational being) and individual (one of several similar things) has long existed, it is in the twentieth century that we seem to have become fully conscious of this distinction. There is good reason for such as emphasis today. Repeatedly in this century the... The purpose of this volume is to ask and propose a positive answer to the question: "Can we attend to the personhood of individuals within systems ... |
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Coming Home
ISBN: 9780865348745 / Angielski / Miękka / 126 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Russell, a psychotherapist and Psychosynthesis trainer, details how she dropped her full life overnight to run a home hospice for her dying older sister. She includes many useful quotes, references from experts James Pennebacker and Steven Levine, and the author's reflections.
Russell, a psychotherapist and Psychosynthesis trainer, details how she dropped her full life overnight to run a home hospice for her dying older sist...
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Biopsychosocial Perspectives on Transplantation
ISBN: 9781461355021 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The field of transplantation has grown exponentially over the last few decades, and leaders in the field may argue that we have seen only the tip of the iceberg. Perhaps in no other discipline is there a need for multidisciplinary dialogue, debate, and approaches to patient care. In preparing this book, we have attempted to introduce readers to a few of the key clinical and ethical issues confronting the field of transplantation today. In so doing, we recognize that the face of transplantation may change dramatically in the years to come. Nevertheless, the issues raised throughout this book...
The field of transplantation has grown exponentially over the last few decades, and leaders in the field may argue that we have seen only the tip of t...
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Suffering: Psychological and Social Aspects in Loss, Grief, and Care
ISBN: 9780866565585 / Angielski / Twarda / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Learn to help others understand, cope with, and even overcome emotional and physical suffering. Suffering: Psychological and Social Aspects in Loss, Grief, and Care is a unique and insightful volume of observations, anecdotes, and case studies about suffering. In this important book, doctors, nurses, teachers, funeral directors, and members of the clergy discuss the crucial physical, emotional, and psychological issues that patients and their families must confront when death is imminent. They address a variety of topics including terminal illness, chronic illness, loss, grief, and pain....
Learn to help others understand, cope with, and even overcome emotional and physical suffering. Suffering: Psychological and Social Aspects in Loss, G...
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Dying and Disabled Children: Dealing with Loss and Grief
ISBN: 9780866567596 / Angielski / Twarda / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Also published as Loss, grief and care, v.2, nos. 3/4, 1988. The contributors examine the stresses faced by family members and offer direct interventions to help with the grieving process. No index. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
Also published as Loss, grief and care, v.2, nos. 3/4, 1988. The contributors examine the stresses faced by family members and offer direct interventi...
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Interventional Pain Control in Cancer Pain Management
ISBN: 9780199219087 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The effective management of pain from cancer is a top priority for patients, carers and healthcare professionals, and has been the subject of extensive research. Approximately two-thirds of cancer patients will experience severe pain, and many of them will have more than one pain. However, because of the increasing number of available treatments for cancer, patients are surviving for longer periods, and are developing complex consequences of their cancer and its treatment, such as central and peripheral neuropathic pain syndromes. Approximately 8 - 10% of cancer pain remains unrelieved by...
The effective management of pain from cancer is a top priority for patients, carers and healthcare professionals, and has been the subject of extensiv...
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Hospice Social Work
ISBN: 9780231134354 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first text to explore the history, characteristics, and challenges of hospice social work, this volume weaves leading research into an underlying framework for practice and care. A longtime practitioner, Dona J. Reese describes the hospice social work role in assessment and intervention with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and the community, while honestly confronting the personal and professional difficulties of such life-changing work. She introduces a well-tested model of psychosocial and spiritual variables that predict hospice client outcomes, and she advances a social...
The first text to explore the history, characteristics, and challenges of hospice social work, this volume weaves leading research into an underlying ...
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