Dementia: The Basics provides the reader with a clear and compassionate introduction to dementia and an accessible guide to dealing with different parts of the dementia journey, from pre-diagnosis and diagnosis to post-diagnostic support, increasing care needs and end of life care.
This forward-looking resource shines needed light on-and offers realistic solutions for eliminating-health disparities affecting one of the most vulnerable populations: children.
Spotlighting the skills of social group work, this handbook offers practical guidance and theoretical knowledge, enabling the reader to facilitate groups of varying types with increased clarity, purpose, and confidence.
Recognizing the growing significance of innovation and entrepreneurship in the field of health education, this novel volume discusses digital skills, collaborative learning and contemporary curricular challenges in order to foster innovative and entrepreneurial mindsets.
This impressive book brings together two major tenets of modern healthcare: person-centred care and interprofessional working, in order to utilise different perspectives on practice to identify the best treatment for the individual.
Public Policy Lessons from the AIDS Response in Africa examines how the interplay between national state dynamics in Africa and the global political arena has shaped the global AIDS response, and in this context develops a framework for analysing public policy action more broadly in contemporary Africa.
Book Features:*16 pages, 8 inches x 8 inches * Ages 4-7, PreK-Grade 2, Guided Reading Level A, Lexile BR40L* Easy-to-read pages with full-color photos * Includes a reading comprehension activity* Photo glossary and high frequency word list includedCelebrating Uniqueness: I Am Unique, part of the Kid Citizen series, helps emerging preschool-2nd grade readers develop basic literacy skills while learning important social concepts in a fun and engaging way.
Care for older adults in Emergency Departments (EDs) has historically been focused on acute medical conditions with little emphasis on geriatric-specific issues.
For years scientists have searched for a "e;magic bullet"e; to relieve the pain of depression and other mood disorders -- safe enough for nursing mothers, children with ADHD, and the elderly, without the side effects associated with medicines like Prozac, Zoloft, and lithium.
Dieses Buch liefert praxisbezogenes Wissen zur Planung, Durchführung und Interpretation von klinischen Studien und richtet sich an alle Personen, die eine wissenschaftliche Karriere beschreiten wollen oder an Evidence Based Medicine interessiert sind.
This book provides a fresh and even-handed account of the newly modernized AARP (formerly the American Association of Retired Persons)-the 40-million member insurance giant and political lobby that continues to set the national agenda for Medicare and Social Security.
Focusing on texts from the late 1970s to the 1990s which document both changing attitudes to terminations of pregnancy and dramatic environmental, medical, and socio-political developments during southern Africa's liberation struggles, this book examines how four writers from Botswana, South Africa, and Zimbabwe address the ethics of abortion and reproductive choice.
Written expressly for leaders in health care and the social services, this accessible book shows how motivational interviewing (MI) can transform conversations about change within an organization.
“A welcome and poignant account of the intense human and political dynamics of a major children’s hospital that will have a substantial impact on the way you view children and their care.
Die Epilepsien zählen zu den häufigsten schwerwiegenden neurologischen Erkrankungen, deren Klinik, Diagnostik und Behandlung in den letzten Jahren durch die bessere Charakterisierung verschiedener Epilepsiesyndrome, die Verfeinerung von diagnostischen Verfahren und die Einführung neuer Therapieoptionen einen beträchtlichen Wandel erfahren haben.
This book tells true and poignant stories from both sides of the physician-patient/parent relationship and provides a unique glimpse into how parents and physicians think, feel, and interact.
Presenting first-hand accounts from the 'front line', Reflections of a Cynical Clinical Psychologist provides the reader with a participant experience of the daily ups and downs of a US mental health professional.
This book gives examples from healthcare institutions that are using IT automation and innovation to drive change and provides guidance on the strategic direction of HIT over the next five years.
Comprising a single repository of knowledge and scientific evidence in the field, this book provides strategies to mitigate fall risk by providing information on the complex interactions between aging processes, co-morbid conditions and prescribed medications in older patients.
Pflegeinnovationen - insbesondere in Verbindung mit Digitalisierung und den Potenzialen von KI - werden als wesentlicher Hebel gesehen, um sowohl die Qualität in der Pflege anzuheben als auch den wachsenden Herausforderungen des Fachkräftemangels zu begegnen.
This guide provides healthcare students and professionals with a foundational background on adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) - traumatic early life experiences, which can have a profound impact on health in later life.
This comprehensive text on the pharmacological, medical, and legal aspects of drug abuse has been thoroughly updated for the Fourth Edition, and a new chapter on club drugs added.
Ethical and Legal Issues in Counseling Children and Adolescents provides counselors and other professionals with clinical cases and accurate, up-to-date information on both ethical standards and case law.
"e;I recommend that all members of the health community read this book to obtain a real snapshot of how the Intelligent Health System is being transformed via new technologies.
This textbook draws on international contributors with a range of backgrounds to explore, engage with and challenge readers in understanding the many aspects and elements that inform and influence contemporary nursing practice.
Today, with physician and hospital reimbursement being cut and tied to quality incentives, physicians and health plans are revisiting the concept of integration.
The Advisory Committee on Medical Training of the Commission of the European Communities was set up by the Council of the European Communities by its Decision of 16th June 1975.
Palliative care is an essential element of our health care system and is becoming increasingly significant amidst an aging society and organizations struggling to provide both compassionate and cost-effective care.
As a traditional healing art that has established a contemporary global presence, Chinese medicine defies categories and raises many interesting questions.
In an attempt to instil trust in their performance, credibility, integrity, efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and good governance, many public organizations are in effect viewing tax-paying citizens as consumers.
