Health Care Issues category: 1336 books

For a human-being, his/her own health is the organ for realizing the world, through which the world appears to be like the health of the person - good or bad, joyful or painful, etc. Therefore, the world exists for an individual if he/she exists in good health. Human evolution has made a huge number...

When I Have Alzheimers is written from the personal experiences of providing care for an Alzheimers patient, the authors mother. It includes everything the author wishes she had been told when her mother was diagnosed from The Simplistics of the Disease to When Death Is Approaching. The authors original...

The book Downloads from God shows us the immense life changing power that comes with real spiritual growth – Power that changes people and circumstances for the better. The story of Charlie and the challenges he faces being an elder in the health care system, and the frustration of his son trying...

The Indicators of Abuse (IOA) checklist signals mistreatment of seniors. The IOA (pronounced Iowa) also helps sensitize the practitioner to important abuse issues. The IOA is practical for busy practitioners and useful in training intervenors and volunteers in cases of abuse to recognize the signs...

With rapid economic progress and increasing life expectancy in East Asian societies, more attention is being paid by their governments, the media and the academy to mental illness and dementia. While clinical research on mental illness and dementia in Chinese societies acknowledges the importance...

This book aims to redefine the requirements of an effective care for the chronic diseases, and their difficulties of implementation; to analyze the processes allowing to reinforce quality and to contain the costs and the expenditure related to this care; and to release the dynamic processes of development of an efficient care, the organisational forms and the corresponding strategies.

The basic motivators will drive people to want to learn more about this topic -- fear, money, and insecurity.-- Consumers fear losing their life savings to LTC costs. Yet, they hesitate to buy insurance with an annual premium of $1,800 without knowing what it covers.-- In October of 2002 (one month...

An ever-more diverse America is getting older, but American policies are not growing with the needs of our ethnic and aging society. Age Through Ethnic Lenses explores the distinct characteristics and unique social, political, economic, and cultural situations of America's aged, while highlighting...

When it comes time to provide care for those who once cared for us, where can we turn? This book offers practical guidance for a broad range of caregiving situations when family caregivers assume their new role. Uses the latest research and draws on case histories and interviews. Is a resource...

Without a doubt, healthcare in the United States today is a challenge. Changes in the law, bureaucracy, and mounting paperwork overwhelm both doctors and patients. Doctors have to do more with less and often feel they have less time with the patient.   Patients must cope (often alone) with...

When we talk about aging, aging is natural, we can’t avoid it, because that is what nature give, aging is inevitable to everyone, which we know, and it is something that we can’t avoid at all in our lives, but we can trick it to some extent, and this is where I will come in. Anyway when we talk...

Für den weiblichen Körper hat sich die Evolution besonders angestrengt. Insgesamt ist die Frau überlebensfähiger. Biologisch hat der Körper der Frau jedoch nur solange mehr drauf, als von ihm neues Leben erwartet werden kann. Dann häufen sich schlagartig die Probleme. Diese Veränderungen dürfen...

Belly fats are just hard to get by.  Not when they’re hanging loosely around your belly and intend to stay there for good! While you’re getting older and get busier on how to cope with your life’s success or failure, you tend to ignore your physical structure and thereby developing unsightly...

My law office was in an old building and off the beaten path. A woman walked in one day with a look of concern on her face. Her name was Mary. With a diagnosis of late stage cancer, Mary was unable to work and had consequently lost her health insurance. Discusses key provisions of the Affordable Care Act (a.k.a. ObamaCare) and educates consumers about health care reform.