Triumphs of the Chronically III and Physically Challenged
Contains seventeen personal accounts of people who live daily with various chronic illnesses and/or physical conditions yet have learned to endure, move on with their lives, and have gone out of their way to help, employ, and motivate others.
In this cross-cutting analysis, some of the US's most prominent social insurance experts go beyond recent budget debates to examine the fundamental and technical choices Medicare poses for the American people in the next century. The book concludes with an examination of how public opinion, politics, and leadership affect the prospects for ......
Environmental Illness and the Struggle Over Medical Knowledge
Looks at how ordinary people borrow the expert language of medicine to describe their enviromentally induced illnesses, and how these explanations influence public policies and laws.
Exploring the moral foundations of the healing relationship, this title looks at the ways a religious perspective shapes the healing relationship and the ethics of that relationship. It argues that religion provides insights into medical practice and morality that cannot be ignored, even in our morally heterogeneous society.
Focuses on five general issues of health care for elderly population: the meaning of old age, the goals of medicine and health care for the elderly, the balance between the needs of the young and old, the pressures of other social priorities, and the role of families, especially the burden on women, in long-term care.
Looks at the history of hospice, its philosophy of care, and the contemporary issues it faces. This book explains the role of each member of the hospice team in the hope that palliative care, based upon the needs and preferences of each patient and family, can be provided.
This guidebook, for anyone developing early-stage Alzheimer's programs, is for use as a national and international model to meet the needs of people just diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Clinical and administrative issues include: selecting group participants; training facilitators; managing unique group topics, interactions, and dynamics.
Issues in Health Care Financing and Service Delivery
A key issue in the debate about reforming the US health care system is how to finance and organize the delivery of long-term care. This volume offers perspectives on several important facets of this problem, including the regulation of private long-term care insurance, catastrophic out-of-pocket costs, and the use of long-term care and acute care ......
Affirming and Restoring Caring Practices in the Helping Professions
By combining stories of care, the reflections of caregiving practitioners, and interpretations of caregiving within a larger social and theoretical framework, this title identifies the values and skills involved in quality caregiving at the individual level and affirms their importance for reshaping our public caregiving institutions.
