Patient Care category: 3822 books
Religion and Aging
An Anthology of the Poppele Papers
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Find solace and wise counsel in these classics of spiritual gerontology!
In these days, when so many people live beyond the Biblical threescore and ten, the spiritual questing and questioning of the aged demands a meaningful response from clergy, family members, and nursing home staff. The...
by Leon A Pastalan, Benyamin Schwarz
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Make housing for the elderly comfortable, efficient, and appropriate to their special needs!
Today people are living longer lives than ever before, and elderly people need to live in settings that reflect their individual capabilities. They need safe and appropriate homes, appliances, and furnishings...
by Phil Wiffen
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
The effective delivery of primary care now requires a much higher calibre of staff than was previously considered acceptable. Selection, assessment and management are skills that need to be properly understood to ensure that the best possible service is being provided; and inappropriate actions can...
Housing for the Elderly
Policy and Practice Issues
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Find out how housing options for the elderly are changing—and not always for the better
To maintain or improve their quality of life, many seniors in the United States will move to new locations and into new types of housing. Housing for the Elderly addresses the key aspects of the transitions...
by Sandra Stith
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Stop intimate partner violence before it starts
Intimate partner violence touches everyone. With more than 1 million cases reported each year, this pervasive social problem has devastating effects on victims, families, and communities. Prevention of Intimate Partner Violence presents a comprehensive...
Internet-Delivered Therapeutic Interventions in Human Services
Methods, Interventions and Evaluation
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
There has been exponential growth in use of the Internet to deliver therapeutic and supportive human services. Online interventions are known by a variety of names, including online practice, e-therapy and others. All refer to the delivery of services over the Internet through a variety of delivery...
Fifty Years in Public Health (Routledge Revivals)
A Personal Narrative with Comments
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
First published in 1935, this book provides a valuable contribution to the history of Public Health and Preventive Medicine. Written as a recollection of the experiences and knowledge of Sir Arthur Newsholme, the book covers a period in which phenomenal progress was made.
Risk and Citizenship
Key Issues in Welfare
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Contemporary welfare provision poses serious challenges for social policy. Large and rapid changes are said to be taking place in the way we live, work and relate to each other, characterised by anxiety and insecurity.Risk and Citizenship explores how new and diffrent forms of citizenship are evolving...
Pancreatic Disease
Protocols and Clinical Research
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2010
Clem Imrie and Colin Johnson This book stems from an unusual meeting held in The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow in March 2007. Enthusiastic doctors in the diagnosis and treatment of pancreatic diseases were arranged in small groups to discuss specific unsolved/partially clinical...
Developmental Disabilities
A Handbook for Occupational Therapists
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
This significant volume provides broad coverage of the spectrum of problems confronted by patients with developmental disabilities and the many kinds of occupational therapy services these individuals need. Experts identify exemplary institutional and community service programs for treating patients...
On the Take
How Medicine's Complicity with Big Business Can Endanger Your Health
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2004
We all know that doctors accept gifts from drug companies, ranging from pens and coffee mugs to free vacations at luxurious resorts. But as the former Editor-in-Chief of The New England Journal of Medicine reveals in this shocking expose, these innocuous-seeming gifts are just the tip of an iceberg...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Vulnerability and empowerment are central concepts of contemporary development theory and ethics. Vulnerability associated with human interdependence is a wellspring of values in care ethics, while vulnerability arising from social problems demands remedy, of which empowerment is frequently the just...
Environmental Gerontology
What Now?
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Environmental gerontology – the research on aging and environment – evolved during the late 1960s, when the domain became a relevant topic due to societal concerns with the problems of housing for elderly people. The field proliferated during the 1970s and 1980s, and remains viable and active...
The Value of Transnational Medical Research
Labour, Participation and Care
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
What is the value of medical research? With contributions from anthropologists, sociologists and activists, this approach brings into focus the forms of value – social, epistemic, and economic – that are involved in medical research practices and how these values intersect with everyday living....