Individual Service Funds Handbook
by Robin Miller and Helen Sanderson
The Individual Service Funds Handbook is the definitive guide to one of the most innovative forms of personal budget in health and social care. It gives a clear explanation of what Individual Service Funds (ISFs) are, how to use them effectively and includes all the information you need in order to implement them in your organisation. The Handbook spans a range of settings, including a dementia care home, supported living and residential homes for adults with learning disabilities and people who...
Elderly Care in Transition
A Guide for Nursing Home Social Workers, Second Edition
by Elise Phd Msw Licsw Beaulieu
Evaluating Health Promotion
by Penelope Hawe, Deirdre Degeling, and Jane Hall
Health and Welfare for Families in the 21st Century
by Helen M. Wallace, Gordon Green, and Kenneth Jaros
2003 AJN BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD WINNER! In Health and Welfare for Families in the 21st Century, Second Edition, leaders in the maternal and child health field analyze the revolutionizing effect of changes occurring today in the social, educational, political, and economic aspects of family health care. This authoritative collection of readings provides a basic overview of the health and social welfare systems, and the policy and insurance infrastructure surrounding those systems. In this edition...
When Jan Campito first entered the world of special needs, she trusted the experts to tell her what was wrong, and how to proceed to help her children. Here she was, an articulate, well-educated person, usually confident in navigating whatever situations were required, and yet she became passive and trusting when it came to assuming people would tell her what was wrong with her children's development and what to do to help them. As she realized more and more that no one else was stepping into th...
Digital Health and Public and Community Health provides students with an examination of digital health and its integration in public and community health services. Readers learn how digital health systems and initiatives require engagement from a plethora of stakeholders, individual healthcare providers, and interprofessional teams of healthcare providers, including input from health profession education, communities and government, insurers, health policy, health research, and consumers. The b...
An Introduction to Community Health
by James F McKenzie, Robert R Pinger, and Jerome E Kotecki
Being Homemaker/Home Health Aid Update
by Elana Zucker and Elana D. Zucker
District Nursing at a Glance (At a Glance (Nursing and Healthcare))
by Crystal Oldman
District Nursing at a Glanceisthe perfect study and revision guide for students and qualified nurses alike, providing a concise yet thorough overview of community care and its implications for nursing practice. A new addition to the market-leading at a Glance series, this dynamic and highly visual resource covers a wide range of fundamental topics, from the historical and theoretical background of district nursing to practical information on prescribing, mental health, home assessment, pain mana...
Peace and Power: Creative Leadership for Building Community
by Peggy L. Chinn
Master health promotion for all ages and population groups! Health Promotion Throughout the Life Span, 10th Edition provides comprehensive coverage of leading health promotion concepts from assessment to interventions to application. Its lifespan approach addresses patients' unique needs with case studies and care plans presented within an assessment framework based on Gordon's Functional Health Patterns. Addressing each age and stage of development, this market-leading text covers the latest re...
The Health Care Professional's Guide to Cultural Competence - E-Book
by Rani H Srivastava
Mary Sheridan’s From Birth to Five Years is widely regarded as the go-to reference for health, education and social care professionals, or anyone concerned with the developmental progress of pre-school children. In this new fourth edition, the text has been developed to further align it with current child development philosophies and practices, and to support the wider group of professionals that are now required to take steps for promoting children’s development as part of their assessment and...
Parish nursing presents a new approach to healthcare as well as pastoral care, linking together the spiritual and medical communities. With today's over-burdened healthcare system and an aging population, the need for parish nursing is becoming crucial. The parish nurse could be a key link between the two systems, providing truly wholistic care. "Parish Nursing" describes the preparation needed to become a parish nurse and looks at several leaders in the parish nurse movement, presenting the ste...
International Perspectives on Long-Term Care
by Brahna Trager and Laura Reif