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"IF I HAD UNDERSTOOD THE RIPPLE ON EFFECT OF MENIERE'S DISEASE, WE WOULD NOT HAVE LOST THE FAMILY HOME," says the Author. In this candid, honest and thought provoking book, he shares his personal experiences. What can go wrong and more importantly, how you can avoid the negative affects that can happen when you suffer from a long term chronic condition like Meniere's. Meniere's disease can affect not only your general sense of well being but your income, savings, future plans, friends, business partnerships and at the heart of it all, your closest personal relationships. A book every Meniere sufferer, their family, friends and partners should read to fully understand how having a long-term chronic condition, like Meniere's disease, can and will affect all your lives. And how you can help prevent this. Keeping life positive in a time of Meniere's. This self-help book may help you keep chaos out of other parts of your personal life. When you can do this, the negative effect of suffering from a long-term condition, shifts to a positive one as you have less stress and anxiety in your everyday life and more personal energy to deal and cope with the disease itself.
This Collection Of 18 Case Studies Covers A Broad Range Of Subjects Related To Health Care Quality Improvement Efforts. Ideal As Complement To The New Fourth Edition Of Continuous Quality Improvement In Health Care, These Case Studies Explore Themes Such As CQI In Ghana Malaria Control, CQI To Reduce Central Line Infections In Pediatric Hospital, A Mother'S Advocacy Group Against Medical Errors, WHO Safe Surgery Saves Lives Campaign, The Malcolm Baldrige Award Process In Health Care, Comparison Of NICE And Similar Agencies For Comparative Effectiveness Research, And Much More.
From the Prologue: Diagnosed with dementia in 1997, my husband, Jim, lived at home during his illness and died there in January 2006. I wish this story were fiction, but it is not. Dignifying Dementia is both a love story and an attempt to reach out to others who are living through or who will live through a similar tragedy. It is written in the hope that others might benefit from what I learned as the caregiver of a dementia victim. Only then will Jim's cruel affliction serve some purpose, because it might help others feel less lonely, bewildered, angry or frustrated than I did, shorten the dreadful learning curve, or encourage others to ask more questions and make fewer assumptions. And because it might remind members of the health care industry - from physicians to orderlies, from agency administrators to certified nursing assistants - that dementia victims and their loved ones are human beings who deserve respect, kindness, empathy and patience, so often lost in our fast-paced society. The diagnostic process I describe was painful and disappointing; perhaps someone else's caregiving experience might be easier. Caring for Jim was exhausting; perhaps someone else's might be less draining. Watching someone lose his or her mind and body is not polite. It is rude and mean-spirited. Dementia brutalized Jim and stole the love of my life from me. It altered him, us and me. This is not a medical text; it is the story of our experience with dementia and the lessons I learned as I tried to be Jim's voice, to maintain his dignity and to care for him and for me.
One day it happens: the dreaded event that will change your life
forever. For Alix Kates Shulman, it happened in a remote seaside
cabin on a coastal Maine island--where the very isolation that
makes for a perfect artist's retreat can also put life at risk.
Shulman woke to find that her beloved husband had fallen the nine
feet from their sleeping loft and was lying on the floor below,
deathly still. Though Scott would survive, he suffered an injury
that left him seriously brain impaired. He was the same--but not
the same.
Confronting America's Health Care Crisis is not just a book for those in the health care field. It is a book for investors, politicians, educators, and anyone who has a interest in reforming American's NUMBER ONE concern: ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE Did you know there are 47 million medically uninsured Americans? What would you do if you lost your health care insurance? What would you do if your child became ill, and you did not have a clinic for his or her care? If you did not have health care insurance; where would you go if you had a cold or chronic illness? What would you do if you had a pre-existing medical conditon and you were denied medical insurance? How could you afford your medication if you did not have health care insurance? This book provides one solution to America's medical crisis. It gives solid answers for anyone interested in health care reform. This book demonstrates how a clinic was built without the support of local, state, or federal funds. It provides guidance, direciton, an outline, case studies and a business plan to build a clinic. It provides ways to work in the community gathering the needed in-kind donations, and it provides suggetions for overcoming the hurdles so that once the clinic is open and operational, it remains open. This book is a journey of one Nurse Practitioner and how she saw a need in her community and built a clinic for the medcially uninsured. This book demonstrates one solution for providing health care to those who are medically uninsured. Health care is not a privilege, no one should be denied adequate health care coverage regardless of ability to pay, or because of a pre-existing health care condtion which precludes him or her from receiving coverage.
Thirty million people today care for ailing family members in their own homes--a number that will increase dramatically over the next decade as baby boomers enter old age, as soldiers return home from war mentally and physically wounded, as medical advances extend lives and health insurance fails to cover them. Offering both companionship and guidance to the people who find themselves caring for their intimates, "An Uncertain Inheritance" is a collection of essays from some of the country's most accomplished writers. Poignant, honest, sometimes heartbreaking, often wry, and funny, here is a book that examines caregiving from every angle, revealing the pain, intimacy, and grace inherent in this meaningful relationship.
The basic health care system in the United States is not working and must be fixed. The cost of a new, effective system of health care delivery would be instead of rather than in addition to what the US population is now paying for an inadequate, incomplete system. We must put the fiscal responsibility for health care delivery on the medical care sector that makes the decisions on what medications, what procedures and who gets treatment and when, that is, the providers of care, mostly the doctors. By doing this we can correct the more than fifty percent overpayment and misuse of funds currently in vogue. The book deals with the concept of the possibility of eventual coverage of everyone through the Medicare system as the current population ages. It explains the leverage that that single payer universal system such as Medicare, can generate to change the incentives for the providers of care resulting in a reduction of the overall cost. It also sets forth the concept of choice for the patient, the allocation of resources, and the restructuring of the medical education system as well as the recruitment and training of providers. Other problems such as organizational development, provider groups, malpractice, reinsurance through a universal system and other solutions are also dealt with. Today 45 million Americans have no health care coverage, while approximately 50 million are under insured due to high deductibles and co-payments. Many who are eligible for Medicare, federal health care insurance for the aged and Medicaid, federal health care for the poor, may be without coverage due to lack of access to services in the areas that they live. Practical solutions to these problems areaddressed. Robert Gumbiner, MD, with more than 40 years experience in the health care field as a practicing physician, a manager and a force in medical management education, derives much of his experience from successfully developing and managing one of the largest managed care companies in the United States for over 30 years. Drawing on this extensive management experience as well as years of studying health care systems around the world, Robert Gumbiner debunks the myths held by opponents to national universal health care and capitated prepayment. His development of the first capitated prepayment plan for Medical in the 60's in California and first contract for prepayment Medicare on the West Coast in the 80's gave credibility to his ideas that succeeded in reducing health care costs. He shows step-by-step how we arrived at our current dysfunctional system and argues persuasively how we have been misled by special interests in the medical/industrial complex into thinking a health care system funded through the government and managed for effective utilization will eliminate choice. In the final analysis the book's major theme is that the cost of a complete comprehensive system is "instead of and not in addition" to what we are currently paying and how to go about instituting such a system. It offers solutions that have been developed by the author throughout his long career in managing health care delivery systems. It is not a theoretical concept but based upon ideas, errors, successes and a logical, practical model.
Named a Best Book of 2008 by "Library Journal" In a series of moving vignettes, the author begins by describing a particular representation of Water-Moon Kuan Yin, a Buddhist teacher and goddess associated with compassion, who often sits on a precarious overhang or floats on a flimsy petal. Then Kuan Yin steps out of the frame to join the author in the mundane challenges of caring for her father-transferring his health insurance, struggling with a wheelchair van, managing adult diapers, or playing in the fictions of dementia. From perplexed to poignant to funny, the vignettes record the working-class English of a fading but still wise dad, and they find other human versions of Kuan Yin in a doctor who will still make house calls or kind strangers in the street. The book includes ten illustrations: both classical representations of Kuan Yin and also the author's own drawings, which adapt Kuan Yin in an act of practical spirituality, reading art through life and life through art. Each vignette invites the harried caregiver to take a deep breath and meditate on the trials and joys of caring for an aging parent.
Can the ailing health care system be cured? Yes, but only with new ideas. Health care reform is stuck because there has not been an acceptable reform proposal. Providing insurance coverage to more people only increases the total cost of health care, and with insurance, costs are controlled by undesirable increases in the use of managed care. Single payer proposals involve unacceptable government price controls. Balanced Choice has the new ideas needed to fix the health care system. It provides the same universal coverage as a single payer system does, but it does not have government price controls. Overall, it costs less than is currently spent on health care in the U.S. Because it benefits consumers, providers, and employers, the resulting political alliance could be powerful enough to change the U. S. health care systems. This book begins curing the system by explaining how Balanced Choice works and what needs to be done. To learn more about Balanced Choice or to download the first chapter of Balanced Choice: A Common Sense Cure for the U.S. Health Care Systems, visit www.BalancedChoiceHealthCare.org.
The Author is a Professional with over 20 years experience in 24-hour care for persons with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. However, when faced with traveling "The Dementia Journey" with her own Mother, she personally experienced the agony and pleasure of caring for a loved one with dementia. She shares through her own poignant story how in the zeal to keep "unmade promises" and to "take care of our own" that caregivers can actually put their loved one "In Harms Way." The author, who is well known for the "Ten Absolutes" for successful communication with a person with dementia, introduces a new "Ten Absolutes" for caregiver decision making. Caregivers who read this book will better understand "why they do what they do," and as a bonus will receive understanding, reassurance, and tools Professionals in Alzheimer's Care, both Providers and Marketers of care, will receive the insider 'scoop' for a clear understanding of what families need and why.
This book is designed to enhance suitable interaction between the
patient and the family physician. Worldwide shortage of physicians,
limits the available time that can be assigned to each client
during an office visit. The primary physician usually gives only
about 10 minutes for each appointment. It is essential for a
patient to present problems in details, accurately, chronologically
and logically, within 2 to 3 minutes. The doctor will then afford
the time, to evaluate the condition; perform a physical
examination; organize suitable tests; formulate, explain the
diagnosis and management, or arrange for appropriate specialist
referrals.
ABOUT THIS BOOK This book is written by an insider. A hospital administrator and practitioner who participated firsthand in laying the foundation for today's collapsing heath care system. A practitioner who then went on to make radical changes in the way he practiced his profession and his philosophy of health care delivery. A practitioner who is now hell-bent on making radical changes in this disastrous health care system he helped to create 30 years ago. This book is an insider's look at the sequence of events and decisions that led to the demise of our health care system. This book is designed to educate you to:
""Taking Care of Barbara" is an inspirational resource book for
anyone living in the world of Alzheimer's. There are clear and
concise caregiver tips and references in dealing with the everyday
struggles that come with the progression of the disease. What a
gift to know and be able to anticipate the needs of our loved one
when they may not be able to communicate them. Most importantly,
this book is a celebration of family and the relationship between
the caregiver and the patient. It lifts the caregiver above the
everyday struggles and reminds us of where to find the strength and
joy in the frequent frustrations of the day. It inspires us to love
beyond the external happenings and shows us there lies a deeper and
greater gain that will enrich our spirit. The world of Alzheimer's
may feel overwhelming, but this book encourages caregivers to get
out of bed, put their feet on the floor and face the day with
renewed strength and purpose."
This book is about three people from different walks of life, each
of whom experienced a life-changing episode of Guillain-Barre
Syndrome. Three dramatic stories in one.
Experienced family doctor Ray Strand writes his patients prescriptions every week, but he also believes that prescribing drugs should be a last resort in most medical cases-not a first choice. In Death by Prescription he provides simple guidelines to help readers protect themselves and their families from suffering adverse reactions to prescription medication.
"The Chicago Sun Times" praises ""Into the Blue" is Susan Edsall's
fascinating chronicle of the fight to get her father back into his
beloved Big Sky...an engagingly readable testament to an everyday
courage....Salted with hilarious memories of Edsall family life,
peppered with touching reminiscences of flight with her father,
[Edsall] mixes the positive with the painful until it's not only
palatable but also poignant."
All across Eastern Europe, health services plunged into crisis in the 1990s. Steep cuts in budgets, training and investment and, in some cases, official disinterest, created a pervasive system failure that has had terrible consequences, for patients and their families, for communities, and for those who have been required to work in the many parts of health services. Based on research conducted by the ILO Socio-Economic Security Programme and Public Services International, the book paints a vivid picture of the dedication and professionalism of health-care staff in worsening conditions, in which they have continued to work and have tried to maintain standards despite personal hardships.
The rapid deterioration of the American health-care system, and the debate about what to do about it, is generating a maelstrom of news stories, magazine articles, and books. But the average person finds it difficult to make sense of this blizzard of information. Because the health-care system is large and complex, and because the symptoms of its decline are numerous, comprehensive reports about the health-care crisis are extremely rare. Comprehensive reports in everyday language are nonexistent. The Health-Care Mess was written to fill that void. It assumes the reader knows nothing about health policy. As Kip Sullivan puts it, The Health-Care Mess is the book he wishes someone had given to him in 1986 when he, a community organizer, jumped into the cold, choppy waters of the health-care reform debate. At that time, he had no training in health policy. But in the course of studying the health-care system and explaining its problems to thousands of people, he discovered that health policy is not only accessible but fascinating. The book resembles a textbook in that it treats a complex subject comprehensively, and it is meticulously documented. But it doesn't read like a textbook. The author speaks in an informal, conversational style, he makes minimal use of jargon, and explains what jargon he has to use. And he is not coy about expressing his opinions. He believes the health-care reform debate has been unduly influenced by big corporations, especially those in the insurance and drug industries. He concludes that the health-care crisis will be solved only when America adopts a "Medicare-for-all" system, a system in which universal coverage is implemented by expanding a reformed Medicareprogram to all Americans. The Health-Care Mess explains the debate about what's wrong with the health-care system, and how to fix it, in terms everyone can understand.
A practicing psychoanalyst offers one of the first books to help navigate the profound emotional challenges of caring for elderly parents in a strained parent-child relationship.
Rosemary Rowley's autobiography 'The Reluctant Nurse' is a warm-hearted account of the author's fascinating and varied career in the nursing profession at a time when significant changes were taking place. After an education affected by war, Rosemary did not aspire to be a nurse but had little choice. She trained in orthopaedic and general nursing and midwifery, then spent five years in the RAF nursing service. In 1963 she saw an advertisement in the Nursing Times for a team of nurses to improve the standards of care in Ankara, Turkey. Rosemary's spirit of adventure encouraged her to take this opportunity and during her time in Turkey she was able to see and do things that most young women of this era would never have been able to experience. "We knew at the time that we were fortunate to have the opportunity to see so much, and we made the most of it." Rosemary's charming and emotional story will prove compelling reading for anyone interested in the development of nursing in the 20th century.
Replete with the powerful words of experienced caregivers,
"Dementia Caregivers Share Their Stories" is an essential guidebook
for anyone who must attend to the needs of a loved one suffering
from Alzheimeras disease or another form of dementia. In these
pages, members of caregiversa support groups - representing
twenty-six families and a variety of professions and income levels
- speak candidly about the challenges they have faced at every step
in the caregiving process, from recognizing early symptoms of
dementia to dealing with its advanced stages.
Home Health 101 is a concise guide to hiring and managing in home care givers. Dominic Ottaviano clearly points out step by step how to hire a care giver, protect yourself by selecting a payroll service, and manage the care giver once you have hired the best one possible. Home Health 101 will allow you to avoid many pitfalls in hiring and managing employees saving you time and money while finding the best care giver to fit your needs. Home Health 101 gives you all the tools you will need to determine the amount of care needing and the management skills needed to determine the best times for care to be given allowing maximum utilization of you money.
Herbal remedies and dietary supplements are becoming increasingly popular. In the United States, over $5 billion is spent on these over-the-counter remedies every year. While most are benign and pose very little harm to people who take them, there are a few remedies and supplements that have adverse or side effects that could cause problems. Herbal Remedies, Dietary Supplements, and Their Impact on Emergency Care is oriented toward healthcare providers whose patients may be using one or more remedies and supplements. The information covers commonly used remedies and supplements, including vitamins, providing information about their actions, uses, common doses, adverse effects, drug interactions, and key information needed while caring for the patient during an emergency. For example, garlic, ginkgo, and others can prolong bleeding, thus it is important to know that control of bleeding may be more difficult in an injured patient. The intent of the book is to provide a quick reference guide that can be carried in a pocket or jump kit providing immediate information to emergency care personnel. It is an essential guide for emergency department physicians and nurses as well as emergency medical services (EMS) paramedics and EMTs. Although it is oriented toward emergency care providers, this guide is helpful for anyone considering using these remedies and supplements. Information is provided in bullet format for ease of locating critical information without having to read through paragraphs of text.
In this three-hole-punched workbook/CD-ROM package, Huffman (nursing education, Motlow State Community College) offers a practical approach to understanding OBQI and disease management. She provides tools for applying outcome-based patient care using OASIS outcomes, OBQI, care pathways, and disease management. She also explains the links among pati |
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