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Home Health Care Provider
Springer Publishing Company 2008; US$ 45.00This book is designed to foster quality care to home care recipients. It is written for companions, home health aides, and other care givers who deliver non-medical home care. Prieto provides information, tips, and techniques on personal care routines as well as additional responsibilities that are often necessary in this work, including home safety... more...
Perspectives on Care at Home for Older People
Taylor and Francis 2011; US$ 125.00Demographic and epidemiological changes mean that frail older people have come to be seen as an expensive problem for health care systems. The challenge for professionals and policy-makers is to find ways to respond to the coming crisis by delivering high-quality care in the home. This collection offers a critical analysis of home care policy and... more...
The Caregiver's Tale
Columbia University Press 2006; US$ 29.99Ann Burack-Weiss explores a rich variety of published memoirs by authors who cared for ill or disabled family members. Contrary to the common belief that caregiving is nothing more than a stressful situation to be endured, memoirs describe a life transforming experience-self-discovery, a reordering of one's priorities, and a changed view of the world.... more...
No Place Like Home?
Indiana University Press 2003; US$ 23.95"No Place Like Home? combines the rigorous scholarship of an academic feminist philosopher with the 'close to the ground' insights that come from bathing, feeding, and caring for older people as a home care aide. This book develops recent work in feminist philosophy that attends to both care and justice... more...
Love for Now
Impress Books 2012; US$ 3.35On Valentine?s Day, 2006, Anthony Wilson was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin?s lymphoma, a cancer of the lymphatic system. He was 42. In this journal of the days that followed he contemplates love, family and mortality alongside celebrations of Peter Osgood, Ivor Cutler and ?cooking chicken while listening to funk?. more...




