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Sudden Cardiac Death
Wiley 2009; US$ 130.95This book draws on the established European guidelines from the ESC that address the key issues in sudden cardiac death, such as identifying individuals at risk prior to an episode of a ventricular tachyarrhythmia or a sudden cardiac arrest, and responding in a timely fashion to the person suffering the event out-of-the-hospital. It presents an update... more...
Fragile Lives
Allen & Unwin 2001; US$ 31.81A sensitively observed ethnographic account of the experience of terminal illness and care. more...
Families, Carers and Professionals
Wiley 2007; US$ 46.95The lack of practical information available to the families of vulnerable individuals - and sometimes a similar lack of resources for the professionals who deal with them - can lead to frustration and in some cases tragedy. In this practical guide for anyone involved in caring for patients with challenging behaviour, Gráinne... more...
When Professionals Weep
CRC Press 2006; US$ 29.95End-of-life care (EOL) is a specialized area of work that crosses a number of academic and professional disciplines, including social work, counselling, hospice, physical medicine, geriatrics, nursing, psychology, and clerical work. Professionals who work in EOL have often had deeply moving personal experiences with trauma, death, and loss in their... more...
The Parent Care Conversation
Penguin Group US 2006; US$ 14.00A comprehensive and empathetic program for addressing, planning, and putting into effect long-term elder care Long -term care for aging parents is a sensitive, often difficult, but ultimately inevitable issue with which all of us will have to cope sooner or later. The Parent Care Conversation offers a step-by-step approach for families to follow... more...
Crooked Smile
ECW Press 2003; US$ 11.95This moving and inspiring memoir tells the story of a single, heart-wrenching year in one family's life in which a son sustains a severe brain injury, a daughter is stricken by a degenerative muscle condition, another son is suspended from school for drug more...
Life with Pop
Penguin Group US 2009; US$ 16.00From bestselling author and clinical psychologist Janis Abrahms Spring comes a refreshingly honest and tender portrait of a devoted daughter caring for her father through his final years of life After her mother died, Janis Abrahms Spring "inherited" her father-Pop- and set off on an all-consuming five-year mission to make his days as rich... more...
Take Your Oxygen First
LaChance Publishing LLC 2009; US$ 9.99Designed for those giving care to individuals with Alzheimer?s disease and other memory loss disorders, this informative and inspiring guide explores how to take care of oneself in order to meet the challenges of giving care to another. Heartfelt, candid accounts by television host Leeza Gibbons and the members of her family?who cared for Leeza?s... more...
When Life Becomes Precious
Random House Publishing Group 2009; US$ 18.00When you hear that someone you love has cancer... You want to be as supportive as possible. But how? Elise NeeDell Babcock has devoted her life to answering this question and now puts her twenty-three years of experience as a counselor into this immensely useful guide. When Life Becomes Precious contains hundreds of tips for helping patients, primary... more...
Ways You Can Help
Grand Central Publishing 2009; US$ 8.99Drawing on her own personal experience, Margaret Cooke offers sensitive, sensible advice to anyone who feels awkward or uncomfortable near people in emotional or physical pain. more...









