This text presents a comprehensive, evidence-based, practical guide to the nursing care and management of patients with liver disease. It explores a range of liver conditions, and for each condition the epidemiology, complications and nursing management are provided, along with …
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Liver disease is a rapidly growing speciality, and nurses and health care professionals need to have the relevant knowledge and skills to care for patients with liver problems in a safe and effective way. Liver Diseases is a comprehensive, evidence-based, practical guide to the …
Provides information on the foods and ingredients that contain gluten. Includes tips on planning gluten-free meals and on dealing with children on a gluten-free diet. Contains recipes, a list of cookbooks, web sites and support groups.
There has been an upsurge of interest in the aging process as it affects cognition. Most research attention has been focused on memory and relatively little has been focused on language in the elderly. This volume addresses both the research on language in old age relevant to me…
The author describes her years as a victim of physical, mental, sexual, and emotional abuse and provides Bible-based guidance for healing from such wounds.
The author describes her years as a victim of physical, mental, sexual, and emotional abuse and provides Bible-based guidance for healing from such wounds.
"The first history of American adulthood, The Prime of Life examines how succeeding generations of Americans dealt with the primary tasks of adulthood: Navigating the passage from youth to maturity, achieving intimacy and connection, raising the next generation, experiencing wor…
A sound mind in a healthy body. Galen ; Petrarch ; Ficino and Zerbi ; Cornaro ; Erasmus ; Montaigne ; Conclusion -- The circulation of power and knowledge. Petrarch ; Castiglione ; Montaigne ; Conclusion -- Love in old age. Petrarch ; Ronsard ; Montaigne ; Pasquier; Conclusion -…
In 'Aging Gracefully in the Renaissance: Stories of Later Life from Petrarch to Montaigne' Cynthia Skenazi explores a shift in attitudes towards aging and provides a historical perspective on a crucial problem of our time. From the late fourteenth to the end of the sixteenth cen…
The book analyzes the Seattle Longitudinal Study, which Professor Schaie began as a graudate student in the 1950s. The study has been impressive in its methodological sophistication, inclusion of a broad array of variables related to intellectual development, and attention to in…