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Illustrated in the lives of two elderly people, this video focuses on how spirituality is expressed and nurtured in older adults. Key spiritual issues and spiritual needs are examined, including those pertaining to the cognitively impaired older adult. Qualities of the nurse or within the nurse-client relationship that are conducive to providing spiritual care to older adults is portrayed.
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Through the comments of a woman with arthritis, the place of spirituality in the management of arthritis is explored in this video. Spiritual needs are also addressed, such as the need for meaning and purpose, hope, and love and relatedness. How clinicians can integrate spirituality into their work with arthritic clients is described, including assessing clients' spiritual and religious beliefs and practices, and assisting them to meet their spiritual...
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This book provides insight into the various aspects of the American health care system that are broken, contributing to the impossibly high cost of both insurance and services. The author shows how so much of health care spending goes to things that have nothing to do with health. And he provides suggestions for how the system can be remade to rebuilt public trust, and save money.
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This video identifies key characteristics of chronic health problems and how those characteristics could impact on a person's spirituality. Spiritual practices that nurture spirituality are described. Key spiritual issues and needs experienced by persons with chronic health problems are identified and illustrated by a man who is quadraplegic and a woman with fibromyalgia. The role of the nurse in providing spiritual care to persons experiencing chronic...
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Through the voices of two people with Parkinson's disease, the place of spirituality in Parkinson's is explored in this video. The meaning of Parkinson's in the person's life is also explored, including the impact of the person's spirituality in managing and coping. How spirituality can be a resource for those living with Parkinson's disease is examined, for example, in developing meaning and purpose, and in engaging in spiritual or religious practices...
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When someone in your family suffers from Alzheimer disease or other related memory loss diseases, both you and your loved one face immense challenges. For over thirty years, this book has been the trusted bible for families affected by dementia disorders. Now completely revised and updated, this guide features the latest information on the causes of dementia, managing the early stages of dementia, the prevention of dementia, and finding appropriate...
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This video focuses on two clients: one diagnosed with schizophrenia and one diagnosed with manic depressive illness. It explains the rationale for incorporating spirituality into mental health care. Expressions of spirituality that nurture mental health are described. How a mental illness could impact a person's life, including the spiritual dimension, is explored. Unique aspects relative to mental illness that have implications for spiritual care...
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Mealtime is often the most important part of the day for residents in a long-term care facility. This program reviews proper technique and care in serving meals and addresses special feeding circumstances and solutions. This program is designed for assisted living and long term care facilities.
31) End of life
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This program discusses care at the end of life, primarily focusing on pallative care of individuals and their families. The program's focus is on spiritual and supportive aspects of care rather than physical care. Information on the role and importance of advance care planning and advance directives is also presented.
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"After my son Kyle Ferriera van Leer declared his major in Egyptology at Yale in 2010, he mentioned the Book of Two Ways in passing. Without knowing a thing about it, I said, "That's a great title for a novel." It was only after he began to explain what it actually was that I realized what I needed to write about - the construct of time, and love, and life, and death"--
Dawn Edelstein is on a plane when she is told to prepare for a crash landing....
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Respect, dignity, privacy and confidentiality are just some of the basic rights guaranteed under law to all individuals receiving health care. Â OBRA, OSHA and JCAHO all promote the rights of clients to receive safe and ethical care. This program will give your staff the necessary information to assure these rights when caring for the home client.
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Bellwether Award winner Susan Nussbaum's powerful novel invites us into the lives of a group of typical teenagers—alienated, funny, yearning for autonomy—except that they live in an institution for juveniles with disabilities. This unfamiliar, isolated landscape is much the same as the world outside: friendships are forged, trust is built, love affairs are kindled, and rules are broken. But those who call it home have little or no control over
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Many of the nearly 70 million Americans with hypertension (high blood pressure) would like to bring it under control through lifestyle changes such as losing weight, cutting back on salt, exercising, or reducing stress. But, like it or not, most will require medication to get their blood pressure where it needs to be. The good news is that we have many excellent blood pressure medications which, when prescribed wisely, can control hypertension in...
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"The most up-to-date, expert advice for mothers, fathers, and care providers from the American Academy of Pediatrics From the most respected organization on child health comes this essential resource for all parents who want to provide the very best care for their children. Here is the one guide pediatricians routinely recommend and parents can safely trust, covering everything from preparing for childbirth to toilet training to nurturing your...
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Through the comments of a professional who works with people afflicted with HIV/AIDS, as well as a woman who is HIV-positive, this video focuses on the place of spirituality in HIV/AIDS. How a diagnosis of HIV/AIDS impacts the whole person is described, including the spiritual dimension of the person. How HIV/AIDS impacts the spiritual need for meaning and purpose, the spiritual need for forgiveness, and the spiritual need for love and relatedness...
40) End of life
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This program discusses care at the end of life, primarily focusing on palliative care of individuals and their families.
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