'The author has specialised in working with adult abuse and the manual is set out in the way she recommends that training be presented. There are chapters on older people, black and minority ethnic people and younger adults, as well as on investigations and case conferences.'- Nursing Standard'Working with Elder Abuse is a forthright and detailed ......
A Guide to Caring for Your Aging Parents While Making a Living
Working Daughter provides a roadmap for women trying to navigate caring for aging parents and their careers. Using the author's own experiences as a prime example, it's ideal for readers who want straight talk and real advice about the challenges and rewards of eldercare while managing a career and family.
Ruth Bright is a Consultant Music Therapist who specialises in grief counselling and was Founding President of the Australian Music Therapy Association. She is a long-standing member (and immediate Past-President) of the Board of Directors of the Gerontology Foundation of Australia, a national charity which provides funds for research into aspects ......
Although the public most often associates dementia with Alzheimer's disease, the medical profession now distinguishes various types of "other" dementias. This book is the first and only comprehensive guide dealing with frontotemporal degeneration (FTD), one of the largest groups of non-Alzheimer's dementias. The contributors are either specialists ......
Jillian Celentano lived most of her life not accepting who she was. Since beginning her transition at the age of 55, she has been able to live authentically as her true self. In this helpful and practical guide, she offers advice to other people who are transitioning later in life.
A Guide to Tapping into Your Deep Beauty and Inner Worth
Stop living in the poor me world and take purposeful action with discipline and determination to practice self-care, no matter what your age. This book shows you how to become your own caregiver by tapping into your deep beauty and inner worth and transforming yourself through exercise, diet, meditation, and getting rid of toxic relationships.
This training manual is designed specifically for residential and day care staff who work with older people. Topics covered in the manual are closely linked to the new requirements for training in social care work as outlined in the TOPSS induction and foundation standards. Each of the chapters contains exercises, case studies, a reading list and ......
In this accessible and upbeat guide, Schlossberg builds on the concepts she pioneered in Retire Smart, Retire Happy and Revitalizing Retirement with an engaging take on positive aging. Looking at the basic issues of aging - health, finances, and relationships - readers will learn to think about and develop a deliberate plan to age happily.
Aging is an inescapable part of life, something we celebrate when we are young and intent on achieving all those milestones - 16 and driving! 18 and voting! 21 and drinking! - but that becomes more sobering as the milestones are fewer and perhaps grimmer. This book addresses, from the point of view and personal experience of a 65-year-old baby ......
