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Self-Neglect in Older Adults
A Global, Evidence-Based Resource for Nurses and Other Healthcare Providers
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
An unequalled compendium of cutting-edge information on self neglect
This authoritative resource in provides nurses and healthcare professionals with a comprehensive overview and analysis of self-neglect in older adults. With an aging global population, self-neglect is emerging as a complex...
by Julia Chandler
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
Alzheimer's disease is a progressive form of dementia that kills brain cells, leading to continual loss of memory and intellectual capacity, and eventual death. Sadly, no treatment has been found to stop its progression.
This book provides a valuable resource for both individuals struggling...
Health Visiting
Preparation for Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
The fourth edition of this seminal text retains its focus on placing the health visitor at the forefront of supporting and working with children, families, individuals and communities. Health Visiting: Preparation for Practice has been fully revised and updated to reflect the changes and developments...
Ageing, Disability and Spirituality
Addressing the Challenge of Disability in Later Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2008
This collection examines theological and ethical issues of ageing, disability and spirituality, with an emphasis on how ageing affects people who have mental health and developmental disabilities.
The book presents ways of moving towards more effective relationships between carers and older...
Person-Centred Teams
A Practical Guide to Delivering Personalisation Through Effective Team-work
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
Person-Centred Teams provides much-needed guidance on person-centred working following the roll out of personalisation and personal budgets across health and social care.
In order to deliver personalisation you need to work with staff in person-centred ways. Straightforward and easy-to-read,...
Palliative Psychology
Clinical Perspectives on an Emerging Specialty
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
Palliative Psychology provides clinical, evidence-based training in palliative and end of life care for clinical psychologists to accomplish specific therapeutic goals. Chapters provide a clear road map for approaching assessment and treatment by reviewing the use of psychotropic medications for patients...
The Hospice Companion
Best Practices for Interdisciplinary Care of Advanced Illness
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
The Hospice Companion is a guide to the processes of care during the intensive, interpersonal experiences of hospice work. This resource highlights the mission and values of modern-day hospice through the individual and combined efforts of the field's most valuable asset, the hospice professional....
Fast Facts for the School Nurse, Second Edition
School Nursing in a Nutshell
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2015
“Fast Facts for the School Nurse, Second Edition, will direct school nurses to the answers for many questions and to wiser counsel when a dilemma seems unsolvable. It is…authored by a school nurse of publicly acclaimed distinction who brings a lifetime of experience to these pages.”
—Lucille...
Key Topics in Public Health E-Book
Essential Briefings on Prevention and Health Promotion
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2005
Key Topics is a short, easy-to-read text that provides basic information about twelve key topics in public health, such as diabetes, cancer, smoking and teenage pregnancy, and how prevention and health promotion should be tackled at community and one-to-one levels. The twelve topics are the 'must-dos'...
Diabetes Education
Art, Science and Evidence
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2012
Diabetes education is a process, the key to which is establishing a therapeutic relationship with the individual. The overall goal of diabetes education is to enhance the individual’s health capability, including their ability to solve problems and apply the learning to self-care. Thus, diabetes...
Placement Learning in Mental Health Nursing E-Book
A guide for students in practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2012
Worried about your Mental Health placement? Will you fit in? Will you have the right skills? What do you need to learn for practice assessments?
This book will help you with all these concerns. It will tell you what to expect from the placement, what you can learn, how to link theory and practice,...
Recovery from Addiction in Communal Living Settings
The Oxford House Model
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Research on treatment outcome for addictive disorders indicates that a variety of interventions are effective. However, the progress clients make in treatment frequently is undermined by the lack of an alcohol and drug free living environment supporting sustained recovery. This book suggests that...
The Age of Empathy
Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2009
In this thought-provoking book, the acclaimed author of Our Inner Ape examines how empathy comes naturally to a great variety of animals, including humans.
Are we our brothers' keepers? Do we have an instinct for compassion? Or are we, as is often assumed, only on earth to serve our own survival...
by Pip Mason, Christopher C Butler
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2010
Engagingly written by experts with worldwide reputations in the field, Health Behavior Change presents an exciting method which can be used to helps patients change their behaviour in both hospital and community settings. The method is applicable to any behaviour, such as overeating, physical inactivity...