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Community-Based Systems of Long-Term Care
ISBN: 9780866562553 / Angielski / Twarda / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An enlightening review of the successes and failures of several federally funded community-based projects that offered elderly persons an alternative to nursing home care. Policymakers, caregivers, and students of public administration and gerontology must read this valuable book.
An enlightening review of the successes and failures of several federally funded community-based projects that offered elderly persons an alternative ...
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768,42 |
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Innovations in Activities for the Elderly: Proceedings of the National Association of Activity Professionals Convention
ISBN: 9780866563895 / Angielski / Twarda / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Concrete directions for programming and reasons for developing and refining such programs.
Concrete directions for programming and reasons for developing and refining such programs.
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381,69 |
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Ethnicity and Gerontological Social Work
ISBN: 9780866566469 / Angielski / Twarda / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ethnicity and Gerontological Social Work presents a compassionate and illuminating update on ethnicity in this area of social work. This fine book looks at such topics as the relationship between white aged clients and non-white paraprofessional workers, minority elder maltreatment, the utilization of social services by the Mexican-American Elderly, the neglected Asian-American Elderly, public policies and services in Japan, and more.
Ethnicity and Gerontological Social Work presents a compassionate and illuminating update on ethnicity in this area of social work. This fine book loo...
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223,04 |
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Rehabilitation Interventions for the Institutionalized Elderly
ISBN: 9780866568333 / Angielski / Twarda / 86 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gerontology professionals offer suggestions to enrich the quality of rehabilitation services offered to the institutionalized elderly. This exciting volume examines up-to-the-minute ideas--some that would have been unlikely even a few years ago--that focus exclusively on rehabilitation services for the institutionalized elderly. Despite the strong move toward more community health services in the last decade, the essential role of the nursing home in the long term care continuum is continuing to expand. Perspectives on the response of elderly persons to therapeutic interventions are...
Gerontology professionals offer suggestions to enrich the quality of rehabilitation services offered to the institutionalized elderly. This exciting v...
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768,42 |
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Creative Arts with Older People
ISBN: 9780866569293 / Angielski / Twarda / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With this insightful and intelligent book, professionals can help institutionalized older adults express themselves creatively. One of only a few books on expressive arts for older people, this unique, new volume is ideal for professionals who provide art activities for residents in adult homes and retirement communities.Creative experience can facilitate the expression of ideas and feelings, increase sensory stimulation, improve self-esteem, and improve social relationships. Creative Arts With Older People provides time-tested suggestions to stimulate the creative process among...
With this insightful and intelligent book, professionals can help institutionalized older adults express themselves creatively. One of only a few book...
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768,42 |
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Transformation Through Menopause
ISBN: 9780897892698 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This] is by far the most wise and thought provoking book on menopause that I have ever read. It is must reading for every woman who dares to meet the challenges of menopause fully and consciously. " Christiane Northrup, M.D." This volume presents a holistic, theoretical framework for understanding menopause as a major developmental event in women's lives. Rather than an unpleasant phase to be endured or alleviated, Marian Van Eyk McCain views menopause as an empowering experience that women can use for personal growth. Artfully interweaving her research, years of clinical experience,... This] is by far the most wise and thought provoking book on menopause that I have ever read. It is must reading for every woman who dares to meet ... |
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146,07 |
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The Culture of Long Term Care: Nursing Home Ethnography
ISBN: 9780897894227 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the only collection of its kind to offer an inside view of life and work in contemporary nursing homes with the purpose of developing a theory of the culture of long term care. The anthropological research in nursing homes presented here produces a seldom seen native view of patients, staff, and the day-to-day workings of American nursing homes. The use of ethnographic methods penetrates the reality barriers found in industry descriptions, muck-raking discourse, and general societal aversion toward nursing homes. The tensions found between and within staff culture and patient... This is the only collection of its kind to offer an inside view of life and work in contemporary nursing homes with the purpose of developing a the... |
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391,39 |
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Women, Aging, and Ageism
ISBN: 9780918393739 / Angielski / Miękka / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Here is a unique text that examines the lives of middle-aged and old women. Women, Aging and Ageism, in response to the lack of literature that focuses on aging women, presents timely and definitive research that illustrates the implications of ageism and sexism. This landmark volume challenges powerful myths and dangerous stereotypes and identifies the damaging restrictions that society forces upon aging women. In extending feminist research to middle and old age, the chapters taken together comprise a critique of the conditions of the last third of women s lives. The authors use...
Here is a unique text that examines the lives of middle-aged and old women. Women, Aging and Ageism, in response to the lack of literature that focuse...
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208,17 |
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Faces of Women and Aging
ISBN: 9781560230427 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Discover the diverse ways aging women attempt to deal with the universal challenges of loss, sickness, and death along with the problems of being old women in a society that values women mainly as sexual partners or producers of children. Old women are often seen as poor, powerless, and pitiful in our sexist and youth-oriented society. The truth is that women age much more successfully than do men and they are increasingly in the majority as our population ages. These truths and others are presented in Faces of Women and Aging--a collection written by women, a number of whom are themselves...
Discover the diverse ways aging women attempt to deal with the universal challenges of loss, sickness, and death along with the problems of being old ...
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262,70 |
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Facilitating Self Care Practices in the Elderly
ISBN: 9781560240136 / Angielski / Twarda / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This up-to-date book is a synthesis of current knowledge from published sources and expert consultants relating to three commonly occurring problems in home health care practice--self-administration of medications, family caregiving issues, and teaching the elderly. For each problem addressed, assessment guides and interventions are outlined, making this book an invaluable resource for professionals, researchers, and agencies concerned with providing top-quality care for the elderly. Home health care agencies can use the guide for orientation of new staff and inservice education for current...
This up-to-date book is a synthesis of current knowledge from published sources and expert consultants relating to three commonly occurring problems i...
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208,17 |
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Protecting Judgment-Impaired Adults: Issues, Interventions, and Policies
ISBN: 9781560240549 / Angielski / Twarda / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This thorough book provides valuable information on guardianship and alternative methods for serving judgment-impaired adults. To date, much of contemporary guardianship policy has been developed by "muddling through." This book explores developments in case law concerning the scope of the guardian's authority, the proposed national guardianship act, and proposed changes in federal legislation regarding representative payees, and provides guidance in these important areas of concern. This collection conveys the range of viewpoints and geographic diversity that have characterized...
This thorough book provides valuable information on guardianship and alternative methods for serving judgment-impaired adults. To date, much of contem...
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644,49 |
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Personal Response Systems: An International Report of a New Home Care Service
ISBN: 9781560242727 / Angielski / Twarda / 249 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This important new book describes the origins, developments, and current status of personal response systems, a new means for persons at risk who live alone to get help in case of emergency. In Personal Response Systems, experts from ten countries report on the status, achievements, and challenges involved in setting up, distributing, and operating personal response systems (PRS). Experienced authors from a variety of backgrounds describe the technology, economics, and social effects of PRS, and its integration into existing health and housing programs. Professionals who provide...
This important new book describes the origins, developments, and current status of personal response systems, a new means for persons at risk who live...
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287,49 |
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Exercise Programming for Older Adults
ISBN: 9781560248057 / Angielski / Twarda / 94 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Exercise Programming for Older Adults is a valuable guidebook for ensuring that exercise programming attains a balance between the three major physical components of aerobic, strength, and flexibility training--and that each component is properly administered. The guidelines presented reveal how physical activities supervised by trained personnel can make a noticeable difference in the participants' quality of life.
Exercise Programming for Older Adults is a valuable guidebook for ensuring that exercise programming attains a balance between the three major physica...
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941,94 |
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Intergenerational Programs: Past, Present and Future
ISBN: 9781560324218 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work describes the relationship between intergenerational practice and theory by combining details about current programmes with developmental and societal information. It presents the components for intergenerational programs that impact on the field's history, current status, and future, the book introduces the basic theoretical information for this human service initiative.
This work describes the relationship between intergenerational practice and theory by combining details about current programmes with developmental an...
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223,04 |
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Gerontographics: Life-Stage Segmentation for Marketing Strategy Development
ISBN: 9781567200621 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The mature consumer market is highly heterogeneous, and to reach it most effectively marketers must fit different marketing strategies to different market subsegments. Here is a marketing tool that can not only help segment the market, but target it successfully. Dr. Moschis's market segmentation model is based on state-of-the-art knowledge and methodology. It shows marketers how to develop industry-specific marketing strategy, and demonstrates why this approach works. That, plus the fact that Dr. Moschis's model can be integrated into other databases to enhance their value, makes his book... The mature consumer market is highly heterogeneous, and to reach it most effectively marketers must fit different marketing strategies to different... |
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391,39 |
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Mental Disorders in Older Adults: Fundamentals of Assessment and Treatment
ISBN: 9781572309463 / Angielski / Twarda / 468 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Illustrated with abundant clinical material, this book provides essential knowledge and skills for effective mental health practice with older adults. It demonstrates how to evaluate and treat frequently encountered clinical problems in this population, including dementias, mood and anxiety disorders, and paranoid symptoms. Strategies are presented for implementing psychosocial interventions and integrating them with medications. The book also describes insightful approaches for supporting family caregivers and addresses the nuts and bolts of consulting in institutional settings. Combining...
Illustrated with abundant clinical material, this book provides essential knowledge and skills for effective mental health practice with older adults....
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396,55 |
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Understanding and Modulating Aging, Volume 1067
ISBN: 9781573315999 / Angielski / Miękka / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For the last 40 years, biogerontology--the study of the biological basis of aging--has progressed tremendously, and it has now become an independent and respected field of study and research. This volume brings together contributions by biogerontologists, bioethicists, biodemographers, researchers, students, clinicians, and dieticians.
The main areas of discussion and presentation of new research results include (1) biological and non-biological factors affecting lifespan and the quality of life; (2) ethical and social issues related to lifespan and health-span extension; (3)... For the last 40 years, biogerontology--the study of the biological basis of aging--has progressed tremendously, and it has now become an independent a...
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525,77 |
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Geriatric Dermatology
ISBN: 9781850703112 / Angielski / Twarda / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a much-needed practical and comprehensive clinical reference o n geriatric dermatology. Where conventional dermatology texts are lack ing in the area of chronic care, this book expertly covers skin care, including wound care, in nursing homes, adult congregate living, subac ute and home health settings. It presents background and treatment reg imens for dermatological therapy in chronic and subacute care and prov ides forms useful for direct patient contact. The bookFs main chapters cover the graying of America, medical and administrative structures o f extended care facilities, skin...
This is a much-needed practical and comprehensive clinical reference o n geriatric dermatology. Where conventional dermatology texts are lack ing in t...
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917,15 |
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Inequality And Old Age
ISBN: 9781857282634 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An analysis of ageing in relation to identity formation, inequality and stratification. The book outlines a theory of social inequality which encompasses those inequalities associated with old age - in addition to class, gender, race and ethnicity.
An analysis of ageing in relation to identity formation, inequality and stratification. The book outlines a theory of social inequality which encompas...
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257,74 |
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The Healthy Seniors Cookbook: Ideal Meals and Menus for People Over Sixty (or Any Age)
ISBN: 9781933167305 / Angielski / Miękka / 211 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Enjoying great food doesn't stop during your senior years Coming up with a tasty, nutritious meal is now easier than ever with The Healthy Seniors Cookbook. Whether cooking for yourself, your spouse, or visiting grandchildren, this book features an easy-to-read, easy-to-use format that provides flavorful meals and simple, fast cooking methods. The book includes: Over 190 delicious recipes for cooking everything from soups and main courses to desserts Helpful hints on shopping, cooking, and fitness to make your dining experience more enjoyable A six-week plan of menus offering variety every...
Enjoying great food doesn't stop during your senior years Coming up with a tasty, nutritious meal is now easier than ever with The Healthy Seniors Co...
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103,08 |
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