Patient Care category: 3822 books
by Paul Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
Health care is increasingly under pressure. Budget crises are making collaboration and smart thinking essential, while increasing numbers of people with multiple long-term conditions make specialist models of health care increasingly inefficient – patients too often go from one specialist to another,...
Critical To Care
The Invisible Women in Health Services
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2008
Who counts as a health care worker? The question of where we draw the line between health care workers and non-health care workers is not merely a matter of academic nicety or a debate without consequences for care. It is a central issue for policy development because the definition often results...
Community-Based Programs and Policies
Contributions to Social Policy Development in Health Care and Health Care-Related Services
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
This collection is focused on the provision of community-based programs and activities in health and related long-term care services that have contributed, or may in the future contribute, to social policy development.
Several of the articles in this collection deal with community-based health...
Less Medicine, More Health
7 Assumptions That Drive Too Much Medical Care
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
The author of the highly acclaimed Overdiagnosed describes seven widespread assumptions that encourage excessive, often ineffective, and sometimes harmful medical care.
You might think the biggest problem in medical care is that it costs too much. Or that health insurance is too expensive, too...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
One of the most challenging roles of the psycho-oncologist is to help guide terminally-ill patients through the physical, psychological, and spiritual aspects of the dying process. Patients with cancer, AIDS, and other life-threatening illnesses are at increased risk for the development of major psychiatric...
What Living as a Resident Can Teach Long-Term Care Staff
The Power of Empathy to Transform Care
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
Transform your culture of care using the innovative program Through the Looking Glass!
Created by an administrator struggling to jump-start culture change in her care community, Through the Looking Glass is a unique program that changes staff attitudes and teaches the importance of person-centered...
Care Work
Present and Future
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2005
Care Work considers the current situation of care work and care workers, from childcare to eldercare, and from family carers to paid carers. It examines the composition of the current workforce (more than a million in the UK alone), the knowledge and education needed for care work, and the significance...
Palliative Care Within Mental Health
Care and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
This thought provoking and highly practical book is not just about caring for the dying within mental health, but also applying the quality care and practice of palliative care within mental health practice. Multidisciplinary in its approach, it focuses on intervention, treatment, care and practice,...
Transitions From Care to Independence:
Supporting Young People Leaving State Care to Fulfil Their Potential
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
This important book focuses on the critical role of educational achievement for the wellbeing and success of vulnerable youth in adulthood. It is concerned with three interconnected issues: the support which is or should be afforded to youth ageing out of state care to enable them to fulfil their...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2001
The rapidly evolving field of Palliative Care focuses on the management of phenomena that produce discomfort and that undermine the quality of life of patients with incurable medical disorders. The interdisciplinary clinical purview includes those factors - physical, psychological, social, and spiritual...
by Kenneth Kee
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
Gluten intolerance (Celiac Disease) is a chronic medical disorder of the small intestine which affects the lining of the small intestine to form anomalies after taking gluten.The small bowel mucosa shows1. Villous atrophy2. Columnal to cuboidal alterations in the absorbing cells3. Invasion of lamina...
Digital Medicine
Health Care in the Internet Era
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Information technology has dramatically changed our lives in areas ranging from commerce and entertainment to voting. Now, policy advocates and government officials hope to bring the benefits of enhanced information technology to health care. Already, consumers can access a tremendous amount of medical...
Vital Directions for Health & Health Care
An Initiative of the National Academy of Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
What can be more vital to each of us than our health? Yet, despite unprecedented health care spending, the U.S. health system is substantially underperforming, especially with respect to what should be possible, given current knowledge. Although the United States is currently devoting 18% of its Gross...
Linking Housing and Services for Older Adults
Obstacles, Options, and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Packaging supportive services with housing-a pressing issue for older adults
The population of older adults is expected to explode in the coming years. Linking Housing and Services for Older Adults: Obstacles, Options, and Opportunities examines a crucial, complex, and often overlooked issue...