Fading From Memory: what happens to a family when both parents have Alzheimer's?

Fading From Memory: what happens to a family when both parents have Alzheimer's? Review

‘Fading From Memory’ is a son’s personal journal covering the period 2006-2009, during which his parents are first diagnosed with, and eventually succumb to, Alzheimer’s disease. The journal follows the family’s responses to the progressively more desperate needs of their parents with humour, insight, compassion, exasperation, enterprise and, finally, resignation. This book paints a raw, honest, but at times also heartwarming, picture of what really happens when Alzheimer’s strikes - twice. The author exhibits a deep and natural curiosity about what is happening to his parents' minds, how they came to be as they are, what steps can be taken to alleviate their troubles, and what choices the family has available. As fast as problems come at them, the family put up solutions, until eventually they can do no more. Throughout this very testing time, suffered by all the family, the author's humour enables him, and the reader, to step back and take stock, refresh the spirit, and return to the battle renewed.

Health and Wellness, Tenth Edition

Health and Wellness, Tenth Edition Review

Health and Wellness, Tenth Edition is written in a personal and engaging style with specific tips and aids to help students improve their health habits. This text encourages students to learn the skills they need to enhance the quality and longevity of life. Health and Wellness covers the many perspectives of personal health, including physical, emotional, mental, social, environmental, and spiritual perspectives, with a central theme of self-responsibility for one s behavior.

Dinosaurs Alive and Well!: A Guide to Good Health (Dino Life Guides for Families)

Dinosaurs Alive and Well!: A Guide to Good Health (Dino Life Guides for Families) Review

A humorous look at dinosaurs presents advice on nutrition, hygiene, first aid, and exercise for kids.

New Dimensions in Women's Health

New Dimensions in Women's Health Review

New Dimensions in Women's Health, Fifth Edition, offers a practical approach to understanding the health of women all races, ethnicities, socioeconomic status, cultures, and orientations. Objective and data-driven, the Fifth Edition provides solid guidance for women to optimize their well-being and prevent illness and impairment. Each chapter of this book comprehensively reviews an important dimension of a woman s general health and examines the contributing epidemiological, historical, psychosocial, cultural/ethical, legal, political, and economic influences.

Health Care Reform Simplified: Guide Your Family and Your Business through Health Care Reform

Health Care Reform Simplified: Guide Your Family and Your Business through Health Care Reform Review

Health Care Reform Simplified describes the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010. It translates the law’s complex language into terms that are easy to understand, explaining what the new law does, when its provisions take effect, and how to plan for individual, family, and business health coverage. This book outlines the financial impact of the law and how it affects businesses, insurers, hospitals, and doctors.

Most important, this book gives consumers and employers the critical information for making informed choices about new options for private and public health insurance coverage. It also describes how the law interacts with Medicare and Medicaid. Finally, it looks at the potential roadblocks—political and judicial, as well as economic—that may derail some of the provisions. But with nearly half the Act's provisions in force already, there is no time to lose in understanding how this legislation affects U.S. health care providers and consumers today.

• Explains health reform in easy-to-understand terms
• Provides guidance on options for anyone buying health insurance, whether for family or employees
• Details the impact on businesses, medical professionals, and insurers 
• Charts the potential impact of political opposition to the act
• Explains who will pay for reform and where the cost savings lie—under both best and worst scenarios

What you’ll learn

• The provisions of the new health care law.
• The options for families and individuals, and how to decide whether to keep existing insurance, switch to a different plan, or get new coverage at an exchange or co-op
• The mandates for having insurance coverage and the penalties for failing to comply
• New government subsidies and tax breaks for health care, and who qualifies for them
• Options for businesses, and how employers can decide whether to keep existing plans, purchase plans through exchanges, or provide vouchers to employees
• The impact of health care reform on hospitals, doctors, insurers, and patient care
• The roadblocks and potholes on the way to reform and how the law may change in the years to come

Who this book is for

Health Care Reform Simplified is an excellent resource for people who make health care decisions for their families, or for managers who make decisions about insurance coverage for employees. Health care professionals and those working in the insurance industry will also find it a useful overview of the changes that have occurred and those yet to come.

Table of Contents

1. Overview: Health Care Reform Past and Future
2. Early Changes: Health Care Reform's First Ups, Downs
3. New Choices: Individual, Family Insurance Options 
4. Business Trends: Tackling Taxes, Mandates, Incentives
5. Insurance Shift: Law Changes Market Rules, Regulations 
6. New Medicine: Law Attacks Errors and Inefficiencies
7. Medi-Growth: Medicaid, Medicare Poised to Expand
8. Info Overload: Law Brings Communication Challenges
9. Who Pays? Health Care Reform to Cost .4 Trillion 
10. War on Reform: New Law Faces Legal, Political Attacks

The Seven Pillars of Health

The Seven Pillars of Health Review

What you can do for yourself concerning your health, God will not do. It’s up to you to do it now. Most diseases are caused by unhealthy lifestyles, poor diet, lack of exercise, stress, and inadequate sleep. This book, based on best-selling author Dr. Don Colbert’s life message, reveals seven fundamental principles that will enable people to walk in and enjoy the health God intended. Dr. Colbert explains the body’s vital need for:

• Water

• Sleep and rest

• Living food

• Exercise

• Detoxification

• Supplements

• Coping with stress

Colbert, who conducts comprehensive seminars in churches based on the subject of this book, presents a noncondemning, lifegiving approach to optimal health. His well-respected life plan outlined in The Seven Pillars of Health will help people make healthy choices one day at a time!

Families and Family Therapy

Families and Family Therapy Review

This special edition of the classic text includes a new introduction from Professor Arlene Vetere exploring its continuing influence on contemporary practice. One of family therapy's foundational texts, Families and Family Therapy is as relevant today as ever. Dr Minuchin looks especially at the therapist's role and tactics, presenting the views and strategies of a master clinician in a clear and practical form. Transcripts of actual family sessions -- both with families meeting their problems fairly successfully and those seeking help -- are accompanied by a running interpretation of what is taking place. Constructing a model of an effectively functioning family and defining the boundaries around its different subsystems, whether parental, spouse, or sibling, the book explores the ways in which families adapt to stress from within and without, as they seek to survive and grow. Combining vivid clinical examples, specific details of technique, and mature perspectives on both effectively functioning families and those seeking therapy, this is an important text for all those interesting in the theory and practice of family therapy.