Ailments Diseases category: 10428 books
Comforting Touch in Dementia and End of Life Care
Take My Hand
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
*Highly Commended in the Popular Medicine category at the 2012 British Medical Association Book Awards*
The simple sensation of touching someone's hand can have a powerful therapeutic effect. Hand massage is a positive and meaningful way of reaching out and providing comfort to those who are...
by Richard Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
“… These poignant essays come from the heart and the soul of a sensitive and intellectually gifted man who has become a national champion and advocate for the millions of people living with this disease.”—Linda L. Buettner, Ph.D., CTRS, FGSA, Professor of Health Science, Florida Gulf Coast...
Finding Meaning in the Experience of Dementia
The Place of Spiritual Reminiscence Work
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2012
This groundbreaking book is based on the findings of the first major study on spiritual reminiscence work with people with dementia. Carried out over a decade, the study confirmed spiritual reminiscence to be an effective means of helping people with dementia to find meaning in their own experience,...
Doll Therapy in Dementia Care
Evidence and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2016
Advocating doll therapy as an intervention for people with dementia, this book combines theory and evidence to show its many benefits and present guidelines for best-practice.
Despite being widely and internationally used, doll therapy is a controversial and often misunderstood intervention....
Keeping Love Alive as Memories Fade
The 5 Love Languages and the Alzheimer's Journey
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Across America and around the world, the five love languages have revitalized relationships and saved marriages from the brink of disaster. Can they also help individuals, couples, and families cope with the devastating diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD)?
Coauthors Chapman, Shaw, and Barr...
The Most Important Lesson
What My Mother Taught Me That Will Change Alzheimer's and Dementia Care Forever
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Our society is buckling under the demands of Alzheimer’s disease and dementia care, and now a simple but innovative approach has arrived. Laura Anthony brings you on her real-life journey of love and discovery as she cares for her mother suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. Tired, frustrated, and...
by Richard Melzer
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
Tuberculosis, also known as consumption, the White Plague, or simply TB, was the number-one killer in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Many physicians of the era advised their patients to chase the cure for tuberculosis in the Southwest, where the region�s clean, dry, fresh...
Notes of a Love Song
Day-to-Day with Parkinson's Disease
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
When Claire Verney agreed to ‘for better or for worse, in sickness and in health’ she never imagined the journey that lay ahead of her. Her husband Michael was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease at the age of forty-six. Notes of a Love Song chronicles their lives as Claire becomes her husband’s...
The Cholera Years
The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2009
Cholera was the classic epidemic disease of the nineteenth century, as the plague had been for the fourteenth. Its defeat was a reflection not only of progress in medical knowledge but of enduring changes in American social thought. Rosenberg has focused his study on New York City, the most highly...
Colonial Pathologies
American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the Philippines
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2006
Colonial Pathologies is a groundbreaking history of the role of science and medicine in the American colonization of the Philippines from 1898 through the 1930s. Warwick Anderson describes how American colonizers sought to maintain their own health and stamina in a foreign environment while exerting...
Infectious Fear
Politics, Disease, and the Health Effects of Segregation
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2009
For most of the first half of the twentieth century, tuberculosis ranked among the top three causes of mortality among urban African Americans. Often afflicting an entire family or large segments of a neighborhood, the plague of TB was as mysterious as it was fatal. Samuel Kelton Roberts Jr. examines...
Silent Victories
The History and Practice of Public Health in Twentieth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2006
Americans' health improved dramatically over the twentieth century. Public health programs for disease and injury prevention were responsible for much of this advance. Over the century, America's public health system grew dramatically, employing science and political authority in response to an increasing...
by Patricia Manly
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2014
If you were visited by a "man" from the other side warning you to change your ways, would you deny him? That is exactly what my dad, ex-power lifter George Manly faced and the decision he made changed his life forever."My Dad, Our Alzheimer’s” is a memoir about an angry man who was humbled...
by Tish Davidson
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Providing scientifically accurate, detailed, and accessible information to students and general readers, this book presents the history of vaccination; describes the administration, manufacturing, and regulation of vaccines in the United States; and explains the most recent scientific findings about...