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This is the revised Creating the Dynamic Dementia Care Team. This manual has been expanded and contains skill information for self-evaluation, brain anatomy of persons with dementia and how to interact, communicate, and help provide quality of life for those with brain related deficits. Caregivers are given practical tips and quizzes throughout the book. At the end of the book there is a self-evaluation chapter and help for family caregivers.

Have you gone from feeling like you were finally following your true calling as a helper and healer to dragging yourself out of bed? Where did all the excitement, wonder, and gratitude go? Whether you're an acupuncturist, massage therapist, yoga teacher, Reiki healer, coach, astrologer, or counselor, this book is your companion. Anyone in the helping and healing professions needs an afternoon in a cozy corner with a cup of tea and this book. It's time to go beyond self-care cliches and get the practical tools you need to share your gifts with others while keeping yourself nourished.

Fight COVID and Win: A Survival Guide reveals the COVID-19 prevention and treatment protocol that has saved the lives of over 2,000 patients. Since early 2020, Dr. Williams' Urgent Care 24/7 centers across the Southern United States have seen people from all walks of life—from the elderly and high risk to the pregnant and breastfeeding to the fit and young to the immunocompromised. To date, Fight COVID and Win is the first comprehensive user manual to prevent COVID-19 infection, treat early and effectively, and keep patients alive—and without long-haul COVID symptoms.

Diabetes is a growing health concern worldwide, and in the US alone, about 1.5 million new cases are diagnosed each year. Of those cases, almost 95 percent are diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. While the prevalence of Type 2 diabetes is a concern, there is some good news: both Type 2 diabetes and prediabetes - an early warning sign that Type 2 diabetes could be round the corner - are possible to reverse.

Mixing personal history, interviewee voices, and academic theory from the fields of care work, the sociology of work, medical sociology, and nursing, Taking Care of Our Own introduces us to the hidden world of family caregivers. By taking a multidimensional approach, Sherry N. Mong seeks to understand and analyze the types of skilled work that family caregivers do, the processes through which they learn and negotiate these new skills, and the meanings that both caregivers and nurses attach to their care work.

In The Inevitable, award-winning journalist Katie Engelhart explores one of our most abiding taboos: assisted dying. From Avril, the 80-year-old British woman illegally importing pentobarbital, to the Australian doctor dispensing suicide manuals online, Engelhart travels the world to hear the stories of those on the quest for a 'good death'. A deeply reported portrait of everyday people struggling to make impossible decisions, The Inevitable sheds crucial light on what it means to flourish, live and die.

This audiobook, narrated by Kimberly Yvonne Steele, is a comprehensive guide to navigating the complex and often confusing world of home care for seniors in New York. Written by elder law attorney Lori R. Somekh, who has over three decades of experience assisting clients with Medicaid home care, the book provides a clear and concise overview of the home care landscape in New York and the many obstacles that seniors and their families may face.

Essential Alzheimer's guidelines featuring Laurenhue's trademark blend of practicality and lightheartedness. This first audiobook in a remarkable set provides both family and professional caregivers palatable and compassionate advice and answers that can be instantly put to use. Main topics: patterns of progression, the logic behind behaviors, effective communication.

This is the third book in the series The Medicine on Your Plate. In this volume we will be discussing the current understanding and research in the fields of all cancers. We advise on how prevention and treatment of cancer can be accomplished with a SIRT food rich plant based diet.

We are all likely - at some point in our lives - to face the prospect of caring for another, whether it's a parent, child or partner. It is estimated that there are seven million people in the UK caring for loved ones. And yet these are the unpaid, unsung people whose number is rising all the time. In Tender: The Imperfect Art of Caring, Penny Wincer combines her own experiences as a carer with the experiences of others to offer real and transformative tools and insights for navigating a situation that many of us are either facing or will face at some time.

At some point in everyone's life, everyone will be placed in the position of dealing with the death of a loved one. Arranging all the necessary details at such a difficult time can prove overwhelming. However, help is now at hand in this guide that covers all the essential aspects. Drawing from the counsel of funeral directors, clergy, attorneys, estate planners, and psychologists and with references to Web sites and other sources of further information, this book provides straightforward and reassuring advice that is both practical and comforting at this difficult time.

In the quiet moments of our lives, when we find ourselves reflecting on the path we have travelled, we often come face-to-face with the profound realization that life is both fleeting and beautiful. It is in these moments of introspection that we recognize the inherent beauty that persists even as we confront the inevitability of our own mortality. This book, Beauty in the Face of Death, is a meditation on that journey—a journey that intertwines love, loss, and the profound significance of our experiences.

The Mumbo Jumbo Fix: A Survival Guide for Effective Doctor-Patient-Nurse Communication tackles the vital subject of healthcare miscommunication which is a leading cause of patient harm. It is the first book of its kind geared to all three essential participants--doctors, nurses, AND patients. Written by a medical malpractice trial attorney, hospital risk manager, and healthcare educator, its unique holistic approach provides real-world practical solutions in a concise, easy-to-read, and entertaining format. No other book in the field has been written by someone with equivalent “boots on ...

This book gives a voice to thousands of families and patients who have experienced neglect and abuse while in a nursing home.

Why do we age? What are the biological mechanisms which drive senescence? This short essay alludes to the main theories of aging and some recent findings on the topic of the aging process. The essay contains a list of relevant references to other material and will be helpful as a source of background information for biochemistry students as well as laypersons.

As we enter the operating room, the mother embraces me tightly. "I'm entrusting her to you," she says. She notices the hint of a tear in my eye. Her daughter's life is quite literally in our hands; there's no other way to put it. "Scalpel for Dreznik," Dr. Dlugy commands, as we stand before an abdomen distended by the tumor. "Make the incision." In a sensitive way yet sharp as a surgeon's knife, Dr. Dreznik, a pediatric surgeon, describes the most special, emotional, and overwhelming stories of life, illnesses and death. It's the world in which one of the most beautiful missions of humanity...

Are you overwhelmed by the demands of being a caregiver? Do you find yourself struggling to balance your needs with those of your loved ones? Are you caught in the whirlwind of caregiving and need a guide to navigate this demanding journey? If you’ve answered yes to any of these questions, then this is definitely the book for you!

Marvin D. Bryson acted as a primary caregiver for over a decade. Coping with Caregiving is a follow-up to his previous book, Expectancy: A Caregiver's Story of Navigating Family Issues Between Retirement and Transition, that details how he and his siblings cared for a parent with dementia that lived into her early 90s. Coping with Caregiving picks up where Expectancy ended (assisted living care), and contains new chapters on skilled nursing, palliative care, hospice care, and self care, along with an updated glossary of legal and medical terminology.

New Frontiers is not only a brand new manuscript but it also offers a new approach to what many of us call nursing home ministry. Today even the term; “nursing home” is no longer adequate to describe the multiple types of long term care that are becoming the new normal. Wherever God is calling you and me; whether to special needs ministry; outreach to an assisted living community or bringing music to a memory care unit; we are all involved in long term care ministry. New Frontiers is about learning how together, with God’s help, we can make a difference in some one’s life today!

Our walking path took us past a large garbage can that sat near an apartment complex. It was a favorite stopping point for dogs and Lucy, our willful terrier, pulled me over to it. I asked, "Oh, do you want to stop and smell the garbage?" Gery didn't appear to be paying attention, but not only was he listening, he decided I was talking to him. He walked resolutely to the garbage can, removed the lid, lowered his head and took an enthusiastic whiff." At age 56, Gery Sutton — a family physician specializing in geriatric medicine — was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s. For three ...