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Author : Andrea Sankar
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-20
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781421447735
"This will be the third edition of this title, heavily updated from the 1999 second edition"--
Author : Cathy Crowe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1897071221
Cathy Crowe always wanted to be a nurse but she never planned to be a Street Nurse, a title she continues to use to evoke the horror of homelessness. Here she brings readers the voices of ten homeless activists advocating for change. These are brave, charismatic, intelligent and determined individuals, many of whom have lived on the street for over a decade. Crowe's experience has taught her that the only thing homeless people have in common is being forced to live in conditions of poverty. It is her first-hand experience with the disgrace of homelessness that turned her into a housing advocate. * With an expansive section on practical solutions for homelessness.
Author : Bronnie Ware
Publisher : Hay House, Inc
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-13
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781401956004
Revised edition of the best-selling memoir that has been read by over a million people worldwide with translations in 29 languages. After too many years of unfulfilling work, Bronnie Ware began searching for a job with heart. Despite having no formal qualifications or previous experience in the field, she found herself working in palliative care. During the time she spent tending to those who were dying, Bronnie's life was transformed. Later, she wrote an Internet blog post, outlining the most common regrets that the people she had cared for had expressed. The post gained so much momentum that it was viewed by more than three million readers worldwide in its first year. At the request of many, Bronnie subsequently wrote a book, The Top Five Regrets of the Dying, to share her story. Bronnie has had a colourful and diverse life. By applying the lessons of those nearing their death to her own life, she developed an understanding that it is possible for everyone, if we make the right choices, to die with peace of mind. In this revised edition of the best-selling memoir that has been read by over a million people worldwide, with translations in 29 languages, Bronnie expresses how significant these regrets are and how we can positively address these issues while we still have the time. The Top Five Regrets of the Dying gives hope for a better world. It is a courageous, life-changing book that will leave you feeling more compassionate and inspired to live the life you are truly here to live.
Author : Janette Davies
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785336157
This in-depth description of life in a nursing/care home for 70 residents and 40 staff highlights the daily care of frail or ill residents between 80 and 100 years of age, including people suffering with dementia. How residents interact with care assistants is emphasised, as are the different behaviours of men and women observed during a year of daily conversations between the author, patients and staff, who share their stories of the pressures of the work. Living Before Dying shows a world where, in extreme old age, people have to learn how to cope with living communally.
Author : Merrill Collett
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : 1570625158
Most people would rather die at home, surrounded by familiar sights and cared for by our loved ones, than in a hospital. But most of us, too, would be overwhelmed, even frightened, at the prospect of having to provide such caregiving. Of the many books available about death and dying, this is the first to explain in detail how caring for a dying loved one can be a life-expanding experience when done mindfully and from the heart. "At Home with Dying" is a practical guide the physical, emotional, and spiritual skills needed to care for someone who is terminally ill, based on the principles that guide the Zen Hospice Project of the San Francisco Zen Center. Merrill Collett explains step-by-step how to feed, clean, and take care of a dying person--in a way that benefits both patient and caregiver. The instructions, which include ancient wisdom teachings as well as modern practical nursing methods, include: Mindfulness skills Effective pain treatments Appropriate cooking and feeding techniques Household organization and visitor management Preparation for the moment of death Working with grief
Author : Susan MacLeod
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1772620610
When Susan MacLeod accompanied her 90-year-old mother through a labyrinthine long-term care system, it was a nine-year journey navigating a government within a heart in a system without compassion. Her family, much like the system, erected walls rather than opening arms. She found herself involuntarily placed at the pivot point between her frail, elderly mother's need for love and companionship, the system's inability to deliver, and her brother's indifference. She had also spent three years as a government spokesperson enthusiastically defending the very system she now experienced as brutally cold. MacLeod's tone is defined by a gentle, self-effacing humour touched by exasperation for the absurdities and the newfound wisdom around expectations.Dying for Attention is the latest memoir in the graphic medicine field, shelved alongside My Begging Chart by Keiler Roberts and Tangles by Sarah Leavitt. MacLeod includes helpful tips for communicating with nursing homes, as well as background research, to provide a larger context for this under-discussed experience.
Author : Cathy Crowe
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781525534522
"My nurse hands once did more useful things. They immunized the fat, healthy thighs of infants, they carefully measured cardiac drugs to administer to young heart patients, they bathed both the elderly lady after her surgery and the 24-year-old Italian-Canadian woman after her death. My hands once mixed linseed poultices, rubbed twenty backs a night before darkness fell and, by flashlight, checked intravenous drips, catheters, and other tubing. They made hot milk in the middle of the night and then, later at home, soothed a child with too-frequent earaches. These are good uses for hands. Now they carry a black bag into streets, alleyways, and ravines. The bandages I carry no longer cover the wounds of my patients. My vitamins will not prevent the white plague of tuberculosis from taking another victim. The granola bars I carry cannot begin to feed the hunger I meet. I cannot even help someone achieve one peaceful night of safety and sleep. Only roofs will do that. And I am not a carpenter." There is no right to shelter or housing in Canada. Over the past three decades, a series of federal governments cut funding for social programs and eliminated our national housing program, leaving hundreds of thousands of people victim to the tsunami of homelessness that was declared a national disaster twenty years ago. No one knows this reality better than Cathy Crowe, who witnessed the explosion of homelessness across Canada while working as a Street Nurse. This fallout was accompanied by great suffering, inhumane shelter conditions, new disease outbreaks, and clusters of homeless deaths. It is a reality that spans across the entire country. In A Knapsack Full of Dreams, Cathy Crowe details her lifelong commitment as a nurse and social justice activist—particularly her thirty years as a Street Nurse—with passion, grace, and fortitude. Presented through the lens of someone dedicated to the power and beauty of film, A Knapsack Full of Dreams will move you, then inspire you to act.
Author : Melody Rossi
Publisher : Bethany House
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2007-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780764203558
"Presents information on how to discuss spiritual matters with someone who is terminally ill. Addresses end-of-life issues, including physical and emotional aspects, as well as grief and loss"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Deborah Duda
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Death
ISBN : UCSC:32106010281407
Author : Herbert C. Northcott,Donna M. Wilson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-07
Category : Bereavement
ISBN : 9781442634565
"Dying and Death in Canada offers a comprehensive discussion of dying, death, and bereavement from a Canadian perspective. The third edition has been thoroughly updated and several new topics have been added, including assisted suicide and active euthanasia, end of life care, emerging trends in funerary practices, and changing conceptualizations and interventions in the grieving process. A glossary has also been added along with end-of-chapter review questions and an appendix listing recent and seminal movies, television programs, documentary films, and other visual media sources dealing with dying and death. The new edition includes 22 black and white photos, 4 figures, and 3 tables."--
Author : Ram Dass,Mirabai Bush
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781683649427
A year before Ram Dass's passing, he engaged in an intimate dialogue with his dear friend, Mirabai Bush. Walking Each Other Home presents their extraordinary discussion about loving and dying, sharing their stories, favorite practices, and deep wisdom about the most important, final step on our spiritual journey through this lifetime.
Author : Sampson Davis,Lisa Frazier Page
Publisher : Random House
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780812982343
An urgent picture of medical care in our cities, written by an emergency room physician (and co-author of the New York Times bestseller The Pact) who grew up in the very neighborhood he is now serving “A pull-no-punches look at health care from a seldom-heard sector . . . Living and Dying isn’t a sky-is-falling chronicle. It’s a real, gutsy view of a city hospital.”—Essence In this book, Dr. Sampson Davis looks at the healthcare crisis in the inner city from a rare perspective: as a doctor who works on the front line of emergency medical care in the community where he grew up, and as a member of that community who has faced the same challenges as the people he treats every day. He also offers invaluable practical advice for those living in such communities, where conditions like asthma, heart disease, stroke, obesity, and AIDS are disproportionately endemic. Dr. Davis’s sister, a drug addict, died of AIDS; his brother is now paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair as a result of a bar fight; and he himself did time in juvenile detention—a wake-up call that changed his life. He recounts recognizing a young man who is brought to the E.R. with critical gunshot wounds as someone who was arrested with him when he was a teenager during a robbery gone bad; describes a patient whose case of sickle-cell anemia rouses an ethical dilemma; and explains the difficulty he has convincing his landlord and friend, an older woman, to go to the hospital for much-needed treatment. With empathy and hard-earned wisdom, Living and Dying in Brick City is an important resource guide for anyone at risk, anyone close to those at risk, and anyone who cares about the fate of our cities.
Author : Sherene Razack
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Coroners
ISBN : 9781442628915
Razack s powerful critique of the Canadian settler state and its legal system speaks to many of today s most pressing issues of social justice."
Author : Beverly Cobain,Jean Larch
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-28
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781592858477
Honest, gentle advice for those who have survived an unspeakable loss—the suicide of a loved one. Surviving the heartbreak of a loved one's suicide - you don't have to go through it alone. Authors Beverly Cobain and Jean Larch break through suicide's silent stigma in Dying to Be Free, offering gentle advice for those left behind, so that healing can begin.
Author : Stefanie Green
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781982129460
Includes bibliographical references and index.