Caring for the Disabled Elderly analyzes the major options for reforming the way long-term care is financed. It first explores the potential market for private long-term care insurance and other private sector initiatives.
With chapters on the medical aspects of the dementia caused by Alzheimer's, this work includes: optimal living environments for Alzheimer patients; techniques for enhancing memory, orientation, and communication in Alzheimer patients; selecting appropriate nursing homes; and the benefits of support groups for Alzheimer families.
A Biopsychosocial Approach in Physiotherapy and Oncology Practice
This much-needed, holistic resource is an integrated whole-body approach to the treatment of prostate cancer survivors. Based on the latest research in men's health, this book goes beyond the biological and surgical implications of prostate cancer treatment and offers invaluable insight into the psychological and social factors of the recovery ......
Essential Skills and Successful Strategies in Long-Term Care
Provides caregiving staff with easy-to-understand and powerfully effective ways to prevent, reduce, or eliminate the challenging behaviours of care recipients. Care staff will learn how to use this book's proven intervention tools and strategies to identify and satisfy the basic human needs that underlie challenging behaviours, as well as ......
Critically examines the new agenda of welfare and assesses the implications for change for policy makers, formal and informal carers, and consumers. The book should be of interest to policy makers, health, local authority and voluntary sector managers and their staff, teachers and students, and others concerned with the development of community ......
A Therapist's Guide to Personal and Professional Well-Being
Dr. Ellen Baker addresses a topic that is vitally important to therapists -- self-care for professionals who, characteristically, are attuned to caring for others. Therapist well-being is considered in terms of the balancing of the therapist's personal and professional life, by tending to physical, emotional, and spiritual needs, and the need to ......
This study applies rights-based alternative-care theory and practice for orphans to China's child-welfare system, including its history and development in urban and rural areas. It analyses state child-welfare institutions; de-institutionalization; foster-mother villages; and current policy changes toward a mixed welfare approach.
''This is a resource for young children that is certain to stand the practical tests of time and application! Simple and complete, parents and professionals will find themselves reaching for it time and again.''Carol Gray, President, The Gray Center for Social Learning and Understanding and pioneer of Social StoriesTM''As adults, we frequently ......
Over 30 million people in the US suffer from heart disease and it is universally feared as the most common cause of death. Through the various stages of heart disease, patients need increasing care from their friends, family members, or other caregivers. Caring for Loved Ones with Heart Disease helps caregivers get appropriately involved in the ......
