Caregiving category: 223 books
by Walter St. John
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Contending with the difficult questions and circumstances that accompany chronic illness, this handbook aims to comfort those suffering from a sustained condition as well as their loved ones. Tips on what to do and say in exchanges between sufferers and those closest to them are provided in a no-nonsense...
Depression and Your Child
A Guide for Parents and Caregivers
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Seeing your child suffer in any way is a harrowing experience for any parent. Mental illness in children can be particularly draining due to the mystery surrounding it, and the issue of diagnosis at such a tender age. Depression and Your Child gives parents and caregivers a uniquely textured understanding...
Summary of Ghost Boy
by Martin Pistorius | Includes Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Summary of Ghost Boy by Martin Pistorius | Includes Analysis Preview of this Instaread: Martin Pistorius, who lost all his memories after a childhood illness, tells the story of his miraculous reawakening in his memoir, Ghost Boy. Martin was a sweet, but shy boy. He...
When Life Becomes Precious
The Essential Guide for Patients, Loved Ones, and Friends of Those Facing Seriou s Illnesses
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2009
When you hear that someone you love has cancer...
You want to be as supportive as possible. But how?
Elise NeeDell Babcock has devoted her life to answering this question and now puts her twenty-three years of experience as a counselor into this immensely useful guide. When Life Becomes Precious...
Understanding Lung Cancer
An Introduction for Patients and Caregivers
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Cancer of any kind is scary, but lung cancer is unique in that most people think that only people who smoke can or do get it. The truth is that anyone can get lung cancer, and it can be deadly. In 2008 (the most recent year numbers are available), 208,493 people in the United States were diagnosed...
Learning to Speak Alzheimer's
A Groundbreaking Approach for Everyone Dealing with the Disease
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2004
More than four million Americans suffer from Alzheimer’s, and as many as twenty million have close relatives or friends with the disease. Revolutionizing the way we perceive and live with Alzheimer’s, Joanne Koenig Coste offers a practical approach to the emotional well-being of both patients...
The Cancer Experience
The Doctor, the Patient, the Journey
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
Navigating the tumultuous waters of cancer treatment and decision making is difficult for all patients. It is also difficult for doctors and other medical personnel. This books deals with a variety of emotion-related and ethics issues that form much of the basis of the world of cancer related medicine:...
Redesigning Health Care for Children with Disabilities
Strengthening Inclusion, Contribution, and Health
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
One in five families has a child with special health care needs-but medical and human service professionals often don't get the training they need to provide long-term, integrated care for these children. Filling a critical gap in professional education, this groundbreaking textbook and training tool...
Understanding Parkinson's Disease
An Introduction for Patients and Caregivers
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
Parkinson’s disease is a degenerative neurological disease characterized primarily by cognitive deficiencies and problems with muscle movements and tremors; more than a half a million Americans have the disease and the current numbers are expected to increase over the next few years. Understanding...
Spiritual Care in Common Terms
How Chaplains Can Effectively Describe the Spiritual Needs of Patients in Medical Records
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016
Encouraging a broad, compassionate, humanistic approach to spirituality, this book shows how patients' spiritual needs can be communicated well within interdisciplinary teams, leading to better patient wellbeing.
This book describes the art of charting patients' spiritual perspectives in an...
by Lorena Tonarelli
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
Looking after someone ill, elderly or disabled can be physically and emotionally challenging, especially if you are new to caring. However, you are not alone.
Offering practical advice and drawing on the latest research in the field of caring, this book helps you begin your journey as a...
Caring for Donor Families
Before, During and After
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Integrating vital information on the dynamics of the donation experience and grief education, this revised second edition provides an invaluable resource for hospital and organ procurement caregivers. Going beyond helping professionals understand the challenges of obtaining consent, this guide invites...
The E-Patient Healthcare Guide
An Attorney’s Guide to Beat the Healthcare System
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
Concise, actionable advice in plain English from a healthcare attorney to help you save big on healthcare by being a proactive, engaged "E-Patient". This book will educate and empower you to price-shop treatments, spot expensive billing overcharges and errors, win insurance appeals,...
The Little Girl In The Radiator
Mum, Alzheimer's And Me
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
A TOUCHING TALE of love, loss and family, The Little Girl in the Radiator is the moving, amusing and uplifting story of one ordinary man's struggle to care for his mother after she develops Alzheimer's Disease.
Rose Slevin was was a highly active, intelligent and fiercely independent...