Health Care

A refreshing way to guide your kids to dreamland.... Kids grow up in an increasingly noisy world. With entertainment being available at any time of the day. We all love to see our kids happy but it’s hard to protect them from devices which are screaming for attention and draining their imagination. This book helps children to reconnect to their quiet imagination. Creating a moment of calmness, making kids more relaxed and less anxious. These bedtime meditations are a collection of dreamy, visualizing stories.

Horrifying, heartbreaking and eye-opening, these are the stories, the patients and the cases that have characterised a career spent behind bars. The no-holds-barred memoirs of a GP who went from working at a quiet suburban practice to treating the country’s most dangerous criminals - first in young offenders’ institutions, then at the notorious Wormwood Scrubs and finally at Europe’s largest women-only prison in Europe, Bronzefield.

You have seen Robert A. Jensen—you just never knew it. As the owner of the world’s largest disaster management company, he has spent most of his adult life responding to tragedy. From the Oklahoma City bombing, 9/11, and the Bali bombings, to the 2004 South Asian Tsunami, Hurricane Katrina, the 2010 Haitian Earthquake, and the Grenfell Tower Fire, Jensen has been at the practical level of international incidents, assisting with the recovery of bodies, identifying victims, and repatriating and returning their personal effects to the surviving family members.

Christina Anstead, star of HGTV's Flip or Flop and Christina on the Coast, is known for her boundless energy, positive attitude, and radiant looks. But what was hidden from fans of her popular television shows was a very real health crisis, including a diagnosis of autoimmune disease, infertility, and the emotional and physical exhaustion of going through a divorce with two young children - all in the public eye. The stress of managing it all wreaked even more havoc on her already strained body.

Lean how to embezzle from a medical practice and more importantly how to prevent employees from stealing from your practice. Sometimes you have to think like a thief to catch a thief. This book shows you vulnerabilities you may not realize you have and how to deter, detect, and recover from employee theft.

Whether you're a family member, friend, or professional caregiver, "Empowering Caregivers Through Alzheimer's and Dementia" is your trusted companion on the journey of caring for someone with memory loss. With compassion and expertise, this guide offers practical support, invaluable insights, and a beacon of hope for those facing the challenges of Alzheimer's and dementia caregiving.

"Dear Caregiver" is a uniquely personal and practical guide written by experienced dementia caregivers for those currently on this challenging journey. This compassionate book acknowledges the often-overlooked difficulties faced by caregivers and offers a collection of heartfelt letters filled with encouragement, advice, and hard-earned wisdom.

Develop an action plan and learn to overcome the fear of diabetes to manage it successfully. Take steps to strike a balance among your food, physical activities, and medications and cultivate determination to tale charge of your life.

Cystic fibrosis was once a mysterious disease that killed infants and children. Now it could be the key to healing millions with genetic diseases of every type - from Alzheimer's and Parkinson's to diabetes and sickle cell anemia. Told from the perspectives of the patients, families, physicians, scientists, and philanthropists fighting on the front lines, Breath from Salt is a remarkable story of unlikely scientific and medical firsts, of setbacks and successes, and of people who refused to give up hope....

Shooting Up: A Short History of Drugs and War examines how intoxicants have been put to the service of states, empires, and their armies throughout history. Since the beginning of organized combat, armed forces have prescribed drugs to their members for two general purposes: to enhance performance during combat and to counter the trauma of killing and witnessing violence after it is over.

Therapy fails sex workers. Despite the wide range of sex work—from street-based to OnlyFans—clinicians too often focus on what they think sex workers need, instead of building trust, developing rapport, and really doing the work to understand the unique stressors that make quality mental health care essential for sex worker communities. Sex-positive therapists Theo Burnes and Jamila Dawson break down everything that mental health providers need to know to work effectively with sex workers, while dispeling the tired, pervasive myths that continue to impact treatment today.

The growth of careers and career pathways within medicine and health care can be confusing, yet it reflects the evolution of modern medicine which relies upon a myriad of different specialists each able to contribute their own particular skills to the care and wellbeing of the patient or client. Careers within the NHS are many and varied, with opportunities to train not only as nurses and doctors but also as dieticians, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, and speech and language therapists.

In recent decades there has been a decline in the quality and availability of psychotherapy in America that has gone largely unnoticed—even though rates of anxiety, depression, and suicide are on the rise. In Saving Talk Therapy, veteran psychologist Dr. Enrico Gnaulati presents evocative case studies from his practice to remind patients and therapists alike how and why traditional talk therapy works and, using cutting-edge research findings, unpacks the problematic incentives in our health-care system and in academic psychology that explain its decline.

As the American healthcare system sorts out the ramifications of healthcare reform, patients have quietly reinvented the healthcare decision-making process, refining their own roles and changing their expectations of the people and organizations they turn to for care. To attract and engage these empowered, self-directed patients, healthcare marketers will need to overcome their addiction to outdated strategies and tactics, and to make significant behavioral changes in the way they go to market.

Almost six million Americans—about one in every ten people over the age of sixty-five—have Alzheimer’s disease or related dementias, and this number is projected to more than double by 2050. What is it like to live with and amid this increasingly prevalent condition—an affliction that some fear more than death? In My Father’s Brain, the distinguished physician and author Sandeep Jauhar sets his father’s descent into Alzheimer’s alongside his own journey toward understanding this disease and how it might best be coped with, if not cured.

The United States spends far more money on health care than any other country, and yet nearly 50 million Americans are uninsured at least part of the time each year. Health Care Reform Now! is written for anyone who cares enough about our health-care situation to consider serious alternatives to the current system.

While there are rewards to caring for those we love, there is no denying being a caregiver is a stressful job. It’s physically demanding, mentally exhausting, and emotionally draining. It simply wears us thin.

You spend your days going after some future “good life”—that place where you’ll have the right house, career, vacations, and relationships that we’re told are the prime ingredients. Once you get there, you think you’ll find the satisfaction and fulfillment you’ve been looking for. You won’t feel so disconnected, distracted, and restless once you achieve those things. Then your life will really begin.

In "Self Care for Black Men: 125 Ways to Nourish Your Soul and Strengthen Your Spirit", listeners are invited on a transformative journey toward holistic well-being. Tailored specifically for Black men, this guide illuminates a path to nurturing the mind, body, and spirit through a collection of empowering strategies, practical tips, and reflective exercises.

Caregivers need care, too. Nurses are some of the hardest-working people around. Our jobs are demanding in so many ways, both physical and mental. We choose this profession to care for others, but that often means we forget to care for ourselves. When we push ourselves too hard, something has to give. It’s no surprise that burnout is a common phenomenon. Nurse Burnout is a guidebook for healthcare professionals who are experiencing stress, anxiety, and lack of resilience.