This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the lived experiences of stroke patients, interwoven with healthcare professional expertise to provide evidence-based guidance for healthcare professionals. It aims to enhance clinical practice and pro...Loe edasi...
This innovative text introduces and illustrates case study methodology for nursing research by exploring how it can be used to uncover the varied and complex life experiences of persons with chronic illness and post-traumatic stress conditions. This...Loe edasi...
Geriatric medicine is challenging people present with multiple problems at the same time, and case studies provide a good way to discuss this complexity. This book describes 30 cases of older people with frailty presenting to acute medical services...Loe edasi...
This accessible guide offers a roadmap to not only managing the symptoms but also thriving with Parkinsons, allowing individuals and their care partners to develop a comprehensive approach to living well with Parkinsons, emphasising proactive engag...Loe edasi...
Healthcare systems today are facing an impending crisis due to increasing numbers of aging and high-risk patients, rising costs, and the challenge of achieving meaningful, lasting patient outcomes. This book provides a fresh perspective on managing...Loe edasi...
This book is a creative and critical exploration of the memory loss experience. Drawing on in-depth case studies based on primary research, interviews, approaches from music therapy, and theory from Derrida, Malabou and Royle, it explores how we mig...Loe edasi...
This book provides a collection of interventions from researchers and clinicians health humanities experiences, and makes their methods available to home and institutional caregivers to aid interactions with the elderly, particularly persons diagnos...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Oct-2024, Kirjastus: Routledge India, ISBN-13: 9781003528432)
This book explores the implications and significant ethical, social, economic and health challenges that an ageing world population presents. It provides valuable insights on concerns related to providing, organizing, planning and managing care of o...Loe edasi...
This thought-provoking book exposes the values, judgements, and hierarchies that underlie ageism in care settings. Destabilizing the assumption that biases like ageism are always bad, Buetow suggests that ageism is normatively neutral and that truly...Loe edasi...
This important book examines how nursing homes experienced the COVID-19 pandemic, the impacts on its residents and staff, and how the industry can be reformed to better meet the demands of a similar health crisis in the future....Loe edasi...
First published in 1989, this title explores the lives of people who have lost sight in late life as a result of age-related visual disorders. As life-expectancy in western society has increased, the number of people who fall into this group has gro...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1982, in this book experts describe the geriatric services in Britain at the time, a country which had pioneered developments in this field over the previous thirty years. Much of the practical knowledge required to establish...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1966, this was the first full-length study by a sociologist of isolation in old age. Although the majority of old people were in no sense a problem group at the time, a substantial minority of the elderly were alone in one or...Loe edasi...
In the 1980s the need for long-term care for elderly people in Western societies was quite obvious and countries had responded in a number of different ways. First published in 1985, the central theme of this book is to explore these ways and to pro...Loe edasi...
First published in 1984, the title looks at the field of elderly care and domiciliary work from the perspective of social services. Starting with early influences that helped shape the development of Domiciliary Services, the author goes on to look...Loe edasi...
This collection fills an important lacuna by acknowledging the importance of understanding both gender and age when approaching illness experiences....Loe edasi...
The fifth edition of this widely used book by caregivers brings to you updated and revised content, built on the basic understanding that medicine does not work in a vacuum, but rather alongside other disciplines to provide the environment for a hea...Loe edasi...
This innovative book provides a new conceptual analysis of loneliness a condition associated with severe health consequences, including increased morbidity and early death....Loe edasi...
A Story of a Marriage Through Dementia and Beyond is the extraordinary, unflinching account from sociologist Laurel Richardson of her love and caregiving through the last period of her husbands Ernest Lockridges life - from his transient amnesia t...Loe edasi...
Collaborative Practice for Palliative Care explores how different professions work collaboratively across professional, institutional, social and cultural boundaries to enhance palliative care....Loe edasi...
