Caregiving category: 223 books

Cover of Multifaith Care for Sick and Dying Children and their Families
by Paul Nash, Zamir Hussain, Madeleine Parkes
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015

What do you need to know in order to provide the best possible care for sick children of different faiths? What, in the context of the young person's faith, might it be helpful to know to support the child and the family, improve care, communicate sensitively and avoid causing offence? Drawing...
Cover of Observation Medicine, An Issue of Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America, E-Book
by R. Gentry Wilkerson, MD, Christopher Baugh
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017

This issue of Emergency Medicine Clinics focuses on Observation Medicine in the ED. Editors R. Gentry Wilkseron and Christopher Baugh have assembled an expert team of authors on topics such as: History and Principles of Observation Medicine; Observation Unit Design and Establishing an Observation...
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Exploring the Gray Zone

Case Discussions of Ethical Dilemmas for the Veterinary Technician

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Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016

Veterinary technicians face difficult situations on a daily basis. They dedicate their lives to aiding in the treatment of animals and relieving suffering, serving as each patient's main advocate and caretaker. The veterinary technician holds a unique role in patient care. Acting as the intermediary...
Cover of Moments That Matter: Cases in Ethical Eldercare
by Michael Gordon M.D. MSc FRCPC
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2010

I want to do the right thing. She was a wonderful mother, and deserves only that. This common refrain comes from children of aged, ill parents. Families struggle with decisions, confronting the inevitable while providing parents with love and care. Modern medicine often offers endless treatmentsbut...
Cover of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Anxiety and Depression, An Issue of Psychiatric Clinics of North America, E-Book
by Jasper A.J. Smits, PhD, Stefan G. Hofmann
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017

This issue of Psychiatric Clinics, edited by Drs. Stefan G. Hofmann and Jasper Smits, will focus on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Anxiety and Depression. Topics covered in articles in this issue include, but are not limited to: Basic strategies of CBT; Core mechanisms of CBT; CBT for anxiety and...
Cover of Sterbebegleitung bei Demenzkranken
by Christiane Pröllochs
Language: German
Release Date: September 19, 2013

Wohlstand, Hygiene und Medizin haben die durchschnittliche Lebenserwartung in wenigen Jahrzehnten fast verdoppelt. Kehrseite der Medaille: Mit dem Alter wächst das Risiko für eine Demenzerkrankung und damit für soziale Isolation in der letzten Lebensphase. Das Sterben wird für viele Demenzkranke...
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The Takeover

An Unexpected Caregiver's Story

by Mimi Pockross
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014

So how does a daughter cope with moving her elderly parents from Chicago to Denver and becoming their primary caregiver? This is a story about learning on the job to deal with constant medical and emotional crises, about deciphering the eldercare lingo, about trying to figure out how to maintain some...
Cover of Topics in Palliative Care
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Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2001

The rapidly evolving field of Palliative Care focuses on the management of phenomena that produce discomfort and that undermine the quality of life of patients with incurable medical disorders. The interdisciplinary clinical purview includes those factors - physical, psychological, social, and spiritual...
Cover of 5-Minuten-Vorlesegeschichten für Menschen mit Demenz: Urlaubszeit
by Dr. Anette Weber
Language: German
Release Date: November 1, 2015

16 kurze und leicht verständliche Vorlesegeschichten für Menschen mit Demenz, Altersdemenz oder Alzheimer +++ Ältere Menschen verfügen über einen reichhaltigen Erinnerungsschatz - der bei Demenz oder Alzheimer jedoch tief vergraben scheint. Es lohnt sich, ihn wieder in die Gegenwart zu holen!...
Cover of 5-Minuten-Vorlesegeschichten für Menschen mit Demenz: Tiergeschichten
by Katia Simon
Language: German
Release Date: November 1, 2015

16 kurze und leicht verständliche Vorlesegeschichten für Menschen mit Demenz, Altersdemenz oder Alzheimer +++ Ältere Menschen verfügen über einen reichhaltigen Erinnerungsschatz - der bei Demenz oder Alzheimer jedoch tief vergraben scheint. Es lohnt sich, ihn wieder in die Gegenwart zu holen!...
Cover of 5-Minuten-Vorlesegeschichten für Menschen mit Demenz: Stadt- und Landleben
by Petra Bartoli y Eckert
Language: German
Release Date: November 1, 2015

16 kurze und leicht verständliche Vorlesegeschichten zur Aktivierung von Menschen mit Demenz, Altersdemenz oder Alzheimer, für Pflegekräfte und Betreuer in der Altenpflege sowie für Angehörige zu Hause +++ Das Vorlesen war schon immer weit mehr als nur Unterhaltung oder Beschäftigung. Von schönen...
Cover of Metaphor, Cancer and the End of Life
by Elena Semino, Zsófia Demjén, Andrew Hardie
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017

This book presents the methodology, findings and implications of a large-scale corpus-based study of the metaphors used to talk about cancer and the end of life (including care at the end of life) in the UK. It focuses on metaphor as a central linguistic and cognitive tool that is frequently used...
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Hospice Voices

Lessons for Living at the End of Life

by Eric Lindner
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2013

As a part-time hospice volunteer, Eric Lindner provides “companion care” to dying strangers. They’re chatterboxes and recluses, religious and irreligious; battered by cancer, congestive heart failure, Alzheimer’s, old age. Some cling to life amazingly. Most pass as they expected. In telling...
Cover of 5-Minuten-Vorlesegeschichten für Menschen mit Demenz: Spiele der Kindheit
by Birgit Ebbert
Language: German
Release Date: November 1, 2015

17 kurze und leicht verständliche Vorlesegeschichten zur Aktivierung von Menschen mit Demenz, Altersdemenz oder Alzheimer, für Pflegekräfte und Betreuer in der Altenpflege sowie für Angehörige zu Hause +++ Das Vorlesen war schon immer weit mehr als nur Unterhaltung oder Beschäftigung. Von schönen...
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