Through narrative accounts, this book explores how women experience the health disruptions and illnesses that impact and often span their lives. The contributors examine how women's broader and ongoing life stories impact and are impacted by health disruptions and illnesses.
Brings together experts who seek to assist family and friends in recognising the danger signs that surround an elder. This book shows the distinctions between types of behaviour that give cause for worry and those which can be described as idiosyncratic. It offers suggestions for assistance that maintains respect for elder autonomy and freedom.
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-centred care practices by placing staff directly in the shoes of residents - with remarkable results.
The third edition of this pragmatic resource assists mental health professionals in helping clients resolve sexual concerns that arise during the course of therapy.
Explores the concept of vulnerability and addresses five groups of vulnerable older adults: those who are frail, those incarcerated in prisons, homeless older adults, gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender elders, and those who are HIV positive or have AIDS.
Guides healthcare professionals, particularly ED personnel, and ED and hospital administrators, about ED Violence to emphasize that this kind of violence poses a serious and real threat to personnel and facilities. This title provides authoritative guidance, assessment tools, and a direction for creating a violence-free ED Environment.
An Ethnography of Health Care Privatization in Puerto Rico
Set at a health insurance company dubbed Acme, this book chronicles how the privatization of the health care system in Puerto Rico transformed the experience of accessing and providing care on the island. Through interviews and participant observation, it explores the everyday contexts in which market reforms were enacted.
An Ethnography of Health Care Privatization in Puerto Rico
Set at a health insurance company dubbed Acme, this book chronicles how the privatization of the health care system in Puerto Rico transformed the experience of accessing and providing care on the island. Through interviews and participant observation, it explores the everyday contexts in which market reforms were enacted.
