Nursing Home Care category: 238 books
Ageing, Disability and Spirituality
Addressing the Challenge of Disability in Later Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2008
This collection examines theological and ethical issues of ageing, disability and spirituality, with an emphasis on how ageing affects people who have mental health and developmental disabilities.
The book presents ways of moving towards more effective relationships between carers and older...
by Susan R. Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
In the twenty-first century, public health is everyone’s business. The nursing and medical professions are well placed to provide advice to their clients, especially in respect to lifestyle change, and public health initiatives are supported by a range of statutory and voluntary organisations and...
Person-Centred Teams
A Practical Guide to Delivering Personalisation Through Effective Team-work
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
Person-Centred Teams provides much-needed guidance on person-centred working following the roll out of personalisation and personal budgets across health and social care.
In order to deliver personalisation you need to work with staff in person-centred ways. Straightforward and easy-to-read,...
Palliative Psychology
Clinical Perspectives on an Emerging Specialty
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
Palliative Psychology provides clinical, evidence-based training in palliative and end of life care for clinical psychologists to accomplish specific therapeutic goals. Chapters provide a clear road map for approaching assessment and treatment by reviewing the use of psychotropic medications for patients...
by Jennie Naidoo, Jane Wills
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
This title is now out of print. A new edition with e-book is available under ISBN 9780702044540. This package provides you with the book plus the eBook - giving you the printed book and also giving access to the complete book content electronically. Evolve eBooks allows you to quickly search...
The Hospice Companion
Best Practices for Interdisciplinary Care of Advanced Illness
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
The Hospice Companion is a guide to the processes of care during the intensive, interpersonal experiences of hospice work. This resource highlights the mission and values of modern-day hospice through the individual and combined efforts of the field's most valuable asset, the hospice professional....
by Mark Carrington
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Caring for someone you love who is suffering from a terminal illness can be one of the greatest honours in life. Helping a loved one to die with peace, grace and dignity is their human right and a privilege for their carer to enable. It can be a truly transformative experience. In Peaceful Breeze...
Handbook of Research on Adult and Community Health Education
Tools, Trends, and Methodologies
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Medical breakthroughs and adult literacy have made it easier than ever before to acquire the knowledge, skills, and values needed to lead a productive and satisfying life, yet many Americans have difficulty understanding and acting upon the health information they acquire. The Handbook of Research on...
Diabetes Education
Art, Science and Evidence
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2012
Diabetes education is a process, the key to which is establishing a therapeutic relationship with the individual. The overall goal of diabetes education is to enhance the individual’s health capability, including their ability to solve problems and apply the learning to self-care. Thus, diabetes...
The Art of Helping Others
Being Around, Being There, Being Wise
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008
When searching for someone to help them reflect upon and improve their lives, people tend to be drawn towards those who are compassionate, committed and wise. This book is aimed at those who recognise these qualities in themselves and wish to develop their capacity to engage with and help others.
The...
by Leon Lowe
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
I believe that anybody can set up a medical health clinic as long as they have a strong love for charity and a fortified nature. All you need is a little bit of knowledge, a medium amount of power, and a high level of humanitarian power and determination. The point of this manual is to give people...
The Age of Empathy
Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2009
In this thought-provoking book, the acclaimed author of Our Inner Ape examines how empathy comes naturally to a great variety of animals, including humans.
Are we our brothers' keepers? Do we have an instinct for compassion? Or are we, as is often assumed, only on earth to serve our own survival...
Promoting Health
The Primary Health Care Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
The new edition will provide readily accessible material for public health educators and practitioners, in a number of professions, who are increasingly being required to address the challenges emerging from the inter-related impacts of the social and environmental factors impacting on health in an era of globalisation.
Manual of School Health - E-Book
A Handbook for School Nurses, Educators, and Health Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2008
Completely updated, the 3rd edition of this practical, highly portable manual offers quick access to the most relevant health and wellness information for children -- from birth through age 21 – in the school setting. You’ll find valuable guidance on developmental stages, learning domains, acute...