Patient Care category: 3822 books
The Body Book
The Law of Hunger, the Science of Strength, and Other Ways to Love Your Amazing Body
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
Cameron Diaz shares her formula for becoming happier, healthier, and stronger in this positive, essential guide grounded in science and inspired by personal experience, a #1 New York Times bestseller.
Throughout her career, Cameron Diaz has been a role model for millions of women. By her...
With a Little Help from Our Friends
Creating Community as We Grow Older
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
In this book, an award-winning journalist tells the story of people devising innovative ways to live as they approach retirement, options that ensure they are surrounded by a circle of friends, family, and neighbors. Based on visits and interviews at many communities around the country, Beth Baker...
by World Bank
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2011
The report assesses the World Bank Group?s support for growth and productivity in the agriculture sector. Enhancing agricultural growth and productivity is essential to meeting the worldwide demand for food and to reducing poverty particularly in the poorest developing countries. Between 1998 and 2008...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
Not since the 1940s has there been such comprehensive scope for uncertainty within and about Europe. New Perspectives on the Welfare State in Europe offers an appraisal of comparative social policy and applies it to current uncertainties concerning European communities and European-North American...
by Chris R. Pownall
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
This is the real life account of a remarkable young man who suffered a near fatal head injury and describes his astounding battle to regain his life. Rob Pownall was just eighteen when he had an unfortunate accident, which was to dramatically change his life. Following life saving surgery he lay...
From This Moment On
A Guide for Those Recently Diagnosed with Cancer
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2009
So, it's official. You've been diagnosed with cancer. And from this moment on your life will never
be the same. No matter how much others may wish to help, you alone must initiate the journey. This is the first step.
From This Moment On offers its hand to anyone dealing with cancer.
Following...
One Nation under AARP
The Fight over Medicare, Social Security, and America's Future
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2011
This book provides a fresh and even-handed account of the newly modernized AARP (formerly the American Association of Retired Persons)—the 40-million member insurance giant and political lobby that continues to set the national agenda for Medicare and Social Security. Frederick R. Lynch addresses...
Alone and Invisible No More
How Grassroots Community Action and 21st Century Technologies Can Empower Elders to Stay in Their Homes and Lead Healthier, Happier Lives
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2011
In Alone and Invisible No More, physician Allan S. Teel, MD, describes how to overhaul our eldercare system. Based on his own efforts to create humane, affordable alternatives in Maine, Teel's program harnesses both staff and volunteers to help people remain in their homes and communities. It offers...
Delivering the Vision
Public Services for the Information Society and the Knowledge Economy
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2002
Political rhetoric surrounding the role of information and knowledge in society in the twenty-first century is often thrown into sharp relief by the realities of practice. Delivering the Vision explores the way in which public service visions have developed globally and how successful they have been...
Communicating at the End of Life
Finding Magic in the Mundane
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
This enlightening volume provides first-hand perspectives and ethnographic research on communication at the end of life, a topic that has gone largely understudied in communication literature. Author Elissa Foster’s own experiences as a volunteer hospice caregiver form the basis of the book. Communicating...
When Someone You Love Has Alzheimer's
What You Must Know, What You Can Do, and What You Should Expect A Dell Caregivin g Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Provides caregivers with compassionate strategies for dealing with the challenges related to Alzheimer's, from memory loss and behavior problems to maintaining quality of life and taking important legal steps.
Too Sexy For My Bedpan
Too Sexy, #1
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2018
At the age of 30, while training for a marathon, Elizabeth began experiencing symptoms of ALS. Written by blinking her eyes using a special computer, this book is about persevering with faith at every turn. Practical, yet hilarious, it offers help to those caring and being cared for with a unique...
Deadly Outbreaks
How Medical Detectives Save Lives Threatened by Killer Pandemics, Exotic Viruses, and Drug-Resistant Parasites
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
Portrays epidemiologists as disease detectives who tirelessly hunt for clues and excel at deductive reasoning. Even Sherlock Holmes would be proud of this astute group of professionals.”-Booklist
Despite advances in health care, infectious microbes continue to be a formidable adversary...
Insights and Illusions of Philosophy
Selected Works vol 9
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.