Medical : Caregiving

This guide for counselors and lay caregivers explores the art of caring for the dying and their families. Based on the tenets first articulated by renowned g......

Compelling, timely, and essential reading for healthcare providers, Meaning in Suffering addresses the multiplicity of meanings suffering brings to all it to......

Fibromyalgia Patient Advocate: Fibromyalgia Symptoms, Treatment, and Current Research (HealthScouter Fibromyalgia) For the most honest, objective opinion, ......

These engaging stories from parish nurses provide an accessible and enjoyable account of parish nursing—an emerging ministry of healing that provides......

This book is intended as a guide for practicing physicians, medical students, and residents to help identify and address the spiritual needs of patients. Tho......

Parish Nursing presents a vision where nurses can serve as the vital link between secular healthcare and sacred faith-based systems. Nurses are able to provi......

Dr. Koenig opens a window on mental health, providing an unprecedented source of practical information about the relationship between religion and mental hea......

"I want to do the right thing. She was a wonderful mother, and deserves only that." This common refrain comes from children of aged, ill parents. Families...

Ninety percent of the population faces long-term care for their life or the life of a loved one. In Elder Care: Precious Presence, author Dr. Alex Kodiath pr......

Four million Americans currently suffer from Alzheimer's disease and experts estimate that 22 million people around the world will be so afflicted by 2025. F......

Dying the Right Way is written for seniors, families, and caregivers. Dying the Right Way prepares seniors and families for the time when caregiving is neede......

There are a lot of issues to consider as our loved ones get older. From in-home care to assisted living facilities, there are myriad options available--and e......

A tale of two very different end-of-life journeys and the daughter who survived them Author: Hartmann, Christine W. Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press I......

If everyone's life is a book, and every day a page, then there are some days that deserve to be dog-eared. Your high school graduation, your wedding day, the......

This landmark handbook for health professionals interested in identifying and addressing the spiritual needs of patients has been significantly revised and e......

It's Enough to Make You Sick explains how the American health care system developed and how it has deteriorated into a national disgrace. Lobosky indicts......

Whether caring for one’s self at home or providing care for a loved one, this indispensable quick reference can improve quality of care and quality of ......

It's Enough to Make You Sick explains how the American health care system developed and how it has deteriorated into a national disgrace. Lobosky indicts......

More than four million Americans suffer from Alzheimer’s, and as many as twenty million have close relatives or friends with the disease. Revolutionizi......

More than 5 million Americans are currently living with Alzheimer's disease or a related form of dementia. By the year 2030, experts estimate that as many as......