A guide to communicating with your child's doctor, paediatrician that shows parents how to talk more effectively to their doctors about their children's health. It demonstrates how doctors evaluate symptoms, interpret answers to their questions, and decide on a course of treatment.
There are approximately 220,000 people with spinal cord injury in the United States and about 10,000 new injuries each year. This straightforward book is designed to help them--and their family members and friends--during the rehabilitation process and the journey that follows. Written by three professionals in rehabilitation medicine and ......
Fully updated and revised, the second edition of Spinal Cord Injury is the definitive guide for people with SCI and their families. Combining first-person accounts with up-to-date medical information, the book addresses all aspects of spinal cord injury -- recovery and coping, sex and family matters, transportation and housing, employment and ......
What Your Child Care Provider and Your Pediatrician Want You to Know
Love and Limits In and Out of Child Care offers parents and caregivers a trusty guidebook for the journey of parenting happy, healthy children.Co-authored by day-care provider Margaret (Peggy) Thomas, her husband Richard, and Lisa Dobberteen, a paediatrician who entrusted her own children to Peggy 's care, this is an enjoyable and educational ......
The Economics and Politics of Growing Older in America
With the impending retirement of some 76 million baby boomers in a period of huge government deficits, public anxiety about the social and economic health of an aging nation is widespread. The policy debates are contentious -- from deciding who should receive limited subsidized housing and medical services to the ongoing battle over 'saving' ......
What your Child Care Provider and Your Pediatrician Want you to Know
Love and Limits In and Out of Child Care is a roadmap for parenting happy, healthy children. Coauthored by day care provider Margaret (Peggy) Thomas, her husband, Richard, and Lisa Dobberteen, a pediatrician who entrusted her own children to Peggy's care, this is an enjoyable and educational guide to everything from TV watching to toilet ......
Medical Specialists and Cancer Survivors Tell You What You Need To Know
A diagnosis of breast cancer can be overwhelming. The disease is frightening and the medical landscape confusing. In the wake of fear and confusion comes the need to make decisions about treatment. This book provides women with medically reliable and up-to-date information to help them with these decisions. Within these pages is a team of private ......
Medical Specialists and Cancer Survivors Tell You What You Need To Know
A diagnosis of breast cancer can be overwhelming. The disease is frightening and the medical landscape confusing. In the wake of fear and confusion comes the need to make decisions about treatment. This book provides women with medically reliable and up-to-date information to help them with these decisions.Within these pages is a team of private ......
Written especially for family members and friends caring for people with dementia, this practical guidebook offers a solution to commonly faced communication and relationship difficulties. It gives family caregivers the information and guidance they need to successfully implement proven Validation techniques.