Patient Care category: 3822 books
by Bonnie Lendrum
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Families who would want to honour a parent’s request to not die in hospital, encounter obstacles that can defeat even accomplished health professionals. Autumns’ Grace is a story that spans a ten-month period as the Campbell family comes to terms with the father’s diagnosis of cancer. The diagnosis...
Optimizing Housing for the Elderly
Homes Not Houses
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Discover the diverse range of housing options available to the elderly population with this excellent new book. This timely volume addresses the public policy and design and development issues that must necessarily face those concerned with housing our steadily growing elderly population. The chapters...
by Sir Arthur Newsholme
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
First published in 1936, this book is a continuation of Sir Arthur Newsholme’s Fifty Years in Public Health and covers a wide variety of topics in relation to the subject. It is in part autobiographical as the author recollects and reflects upon his experiences of the system. The book is divided...
Learning in the Workplace
A Toolkit for Facilitating Learning and Assessment in Health and Social Care Settings
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
This toolkit is designed for preparing health and social care practitioners for their role in facilitating learning in their workplace. It enables readers to recognise learning opportunities, communicate their professional knowledge, provide students with appropriate support, judge performance, co-ordinate...
Help Me, My Husband Had a Stroke
A Practical Guide for Caregivers
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
January 4, 2007 started at the Mansfield house like so many other days. Nancy got the children up and ready, and their giant yellow limos took them to school. But then, in a moment, it became clear that something was very different. At age 46, her husband, Larry, suddenly had an acute change of mental...
Adult Development and Well-Being
The Impact of Institutional Environments
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Foster well-being in an institutional setting
Human services workers are consistently discovering more about how important adult well-being is as a foundation of positive human development. Adult Development and Well-Being: The Impact of Institutional Environments closely examines this relationship...
by Collette Clifford, Stephen Gough
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Children as Caregivers
The Global Fight against Tuberculosis and HIV in Zambia
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
In Zambia, due to the rise of tuberculosis and the closely connected HIV epidemic, a large number of children have experienced the illness or death of at least one parent. Children as Caregivers examines how well intentioned practitioners fail to realize that children take on active caregiving roles...
Contemporary Mental Health
Theory, Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
The authors explore theoretical developments and policy and practice initiatives in the complex and changing area of mental health services. They examine the tensions, dilemmas and opportunities now operating, including those relating to gender and ethnicity and places the involvement of users/survivors...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2002
The Anthropology of Welfare provides an overview of what anthropology has to offer welfare studies and vice-versa.
Case studies from anthropologists in the field, examine different branches of welfare and community care, for example:
* Maternity services
* Children with learning difficulties
* Children's...
Evaluating the "Keep Your Health Plan Fix"
Implications for the Affordable Care Act Compared to Legislative Alternatives
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
This report describes a comparative analysis of three proposals to allow Americans to keep their existing health plans under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The proposals are evaluated based on their potential impact on the ACA-compliant market and the cost and coverage of health insurance. The possibility...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
The management of pain can often be achieved by medications, physical therapies, or by various procedural techniques that have evolved in recent decades. With the trend towards more outpatient surgeries and less invasive surgeries to decrease perioperative risk, perioperative time, and costs, the...
Homeless Children
The Watchers and the Waiters
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
At last, here is a compassionate, humane, and informative volume on the most unique and vulnerable group in our society today--homeless children. Homeless Children: The Watchers and the Waiters is unique because it offers an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the children and the enormously...
Improving Health Care of the Poor
The New York City Experience
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
First Published in 2018. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.