Home Care category: 386 books
Quality Assisted Living
Informing Practice through Research
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Named a 2013 Doody's Core Title!
Doody's Medical Reviews Score: 92, 4 Stars!
"[This book] is well written and achieves its aim of exploring the meaning of quality from a range of perspectives. It has a welcome focus on the views of residents, and the authors are to be congratulated...
by Sheila A. Sorrentino, PhD, RN
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Master the essential skills of today’s nursing assistant! Mosby's Textbook for Nursing Assistants, 9th Edition prepares you to work in long-term care, acute care, and subacute care settings. Known for its comprehensive coverage and an easy-to-read, visual approach, this book includes step-by-step...
Aging in Place
Navigating the Maze of Long-Term Care
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
Identifies and explains many issues families may face as parents age
Describes in detail the estate planning and other legal documents an older person should have in place
Offers an introduction to Medicaid planning
Outlines various options for providing extra care for aging relatives...
by Elise Beaulieu, PhD, MSW
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
ìBeaulieuís decades of social work practice illuminate every chapter, her years of networking with colleagues in Massachusetts and nationwide enhance every paragraph, and nuggets of insight earned through successfully establishing meaningful relationships with residents and families are reflected...
When There Is No Doctor
Preventive and Emergency Healthcare in Uncertain Times
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
The fifth title in Process’ Self-Reliance series demystifies medical practices with a practical approach to twenty-first-century health and home medicine, particularly helpful in a financial downturn.When There Is No Doctor is smartly designed and full of medical tips and emergency suggestions....
Do All Bugs Need Drugs?
Conventional and Herbal Treatments of Common Ailments
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Several chronic health problems facing modern populations can be easily treated through the use of natural substances. Many of the ailments that people suffer from are related to lifestyles and diet. The immune system, for example, is the focus of tremendous scientific interest because of its relation...
by Alice D. Clark, Richard W. Clark
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
Once a normal day is lost, will it ever return?
A reckless driver runs a stop sign and plows into a motorcycle. On that beautiful October day, a young mother’s life shatters as doctors tell her that her 15-year-old son will never come out of the coma. But when he does, the doctors are...
Thomas
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
'Thomas died at 2.30 a.m. on the 16th March 2004. He was eighteen.How do I know that? Strictly speaking, I don't. I don't know what death is.'This was the last challenge. But Thomas, disabled, paralysed and epileptic, faced challenge after challenge with a childlike innocence and love of happiness. Joke...
A Life Worthwhile
The Story of Aaron
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2018
"This is a beautiful book about the life of Aaron who, against all the odds, lived well. This is a story of a severely disabled man who was loved and cared for by adoptive parents, and who became central to his wider family, a joy to sister and brother, nephews and nieces, and a popular fellow-student...
Self-Help For Chronic COPD
A Health Guide On COPD Stages, COPD Treatments, COPD Therapy, COPD And Life Expectancy And COPD Support To Help You And Your Families Manage The Lung Disease And Cope With The Stress And Nervous Tension Of Living With COPD
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
COPD means chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. It is one of the most misunderstood common lung diseases because it involves a combination of disorders that increasingly damage the lungs and make breathing more and more difficult as it exacerbates.
Cigarette smoking and second-hand smoke...
Bullying Among Older Adults
How to Recognize and Address an Unseen Epidemic
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
“This book provides a foundation for understanding bullying behaviors among older adults . . . and [fills] an important gap in a topic where so few other resources are available.”
—Mercedes Bern-Klug, Ph.D., M.S.W., M.A., John A. Hartford Geriatric Social Work Faculty Scholar, and Director,...
The Selfish Pig's Guide To Caring
How to Cope With the Emotional and Practical Aspects of Caring for Someone
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
Six million people in the UK, often unnoticed by the rest of us, provide unpaid care for disabled or elderly relatives, friends or neighbours. Their job is long, lonely and hard, yet there is limited support and no formal training. As a result, carers suffer frequent damage to physical and mental...
Ants in the Fridge
Journey of a Caregiver
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
Extended care and assistance for the elderly is now classified as caregiving. In this world of caregiving there exists the good, the bad and the ugly. Who knew?
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Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
Technology has great potential to assist seniors and others with special needs in better managing their health, maintaining active and productive lives, enabling independent living, reducing risk, and compensating for cognitive and physical decline. Intelligent Technologies for Bridging the Grey Digital...