Aging category: 2173 books
Centers for Ending
The Coming Crisis in the Care of Aged People
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
As people live longer and health care costs continue to rise and fewer doctors choose to specialize in geriatrics, how prepared is the United States to care for its sick and elderly? According to veteran psychologist Seymour Sarason’s eloquent and compelling new book, the answer is: inadequately...
by Lilah Borden
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
Are you sick and tired of all the jokes about menopause? Unless you've suffered the symptoms you just don't "get it."
Do you ever wonder why it can be so hard to handle? You try everything out there and nothing seems to really work."
Part of the problem is that many of...
The Menopause Book
The Complete Guide: Hormones, Hot Flashes, Health, Moods, Sleep, Sex
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
**"Very readable, comprehensive, up-to-date... an excellent guide." - Isaac Schiff, MD, Harvard Medical School **
Deeply optimistic, reassuring, and essential, the book the North American Menopause Society called “required reading” is now revised and updated, with over 20 percent...
The Menopause Answer Book
Practical Answers, Treatments, and Solutions for Your Unique Symptoms
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2004
Estrogen is a powerful female hormone that protects women from many health risks. In menopause, estrogen levels decline and its protective qualities decline as well. At the same time, a lifetime of bad habits may begin to catch up with us, and our genetic predispositions to disease begin to surface....
by Sally White
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
First described as `Shaking palsy' the disease that now bears his name, medical science has thus far been unable to unravel the cause or causes of most Parkinson's cases or to devise a cure. Nonetheless, dramatic progress has been made in treating the disease, which is known to afflict about half...
by Kathi Casey
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
"Stop Back Pain – Kiss Your Back, Neck And Sciatic Nerve Pain Goodbye!” is the culmination of years of research on what works and what doesn’t. Kathi Casey has synthesized and integrated a practical and fun approach for understanding and transforming back pain. There are many treatment...
Unequal ageing
The untold story of exclusion in old age
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2009
This powerful book analyses the vital dimensions of money, health, place, quality of life and identity, and demonstrates the gaps of treatment and outcomes between older and younger people, and between different groups of older people. Written by leading experts in the field, it provides strong evidence...
by Betthni Jiggs
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2012
Knowing the immense responsibility it can become, and while the drama of such an undertaking in your life such as caring for your elderly parent(s) or other loved one(s) can seem insurmountable and complicated, this booklet of vital resources will help lighten your load.
With a combined total...
Delaying Retirement
Progress and Challenges of Active Ageing in Europe, the United States and Japan
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
To a backdrop of ageing societies, pension crises and labour market reforms, this book investigates how the policy shift from early retirement to active ageing has affected individual retirement behaviour. Focusing on eleven European countries, the United States and Japan, it brings together leading...
Come aprire una Casa famiglia Comunità alloggio per anziani
La nuova formula assistenziale improntata alla domesticità e all'affetto familiare
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 7, 2018
Nel 2050 per ciascun bambino si conteranno quattro bisnonni, bisognosi di cure e attenzioni che il servizio pubblico non garantisce. Con l’ebook Creaimpresa puoi crearti un lavoro aprendo una casa famiglia per anziani, la nuova formula assistenziale improntata alla domesticità e all’affetto famigliare.
L’invecchiamento...
50 After 50
Reframing the Next Chapter of Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
At age 50, Maria Leonard Olsen drank her way out of a 25-year marriage. She had, against advice, put all her eggs in the motherhood basket, willfully derailing her successful law career. As teenagers, her precious children did not need her in the hands-on way they previously had. Her husband and she...
Taking Care of Mother
An Age of Transition
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Taking Care of Mother: An Age of Transition is an everyday guide to being a caregiver to an elderly person, and in this case, it is the authors mother. Over the period of a few years, she chronicles her mothers need for a caregiver at various stages of her declining health. As this was a new experience...
by Fred Dungan
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2018
I do not want to convey the impression that Veterans Affairs medical care is hopelessly flawed. However, I am of the opinion that it need to work on its priorities. It is all show and no go, with the emphasis placed on what VIP's see when they tour the hospital or nursing home.
Directors who hire unlicensed physicians should be summarily fired and barred from federal employment.
After the Rehearsal Living with Dementia
A Carer's Story
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
At the heart of this book is a carer's story. However, it is much, much more than that. It is a book about being human, about the ups and downs of life, about loving, about trying to make sense and work out, and around the things that life throws at you how you have to find a way of living without...