Providing human service through markets is inherently problematic. Quality care is critical and unsatisfactory human service greatly influences people{u2019}s quality of life. Yet, profit for human service providers is essential for sustainable service provision. This book focus…
"Providing human service through markets is inherently problematic. Quality care is critical and unsatisfactory human service greatly influences people's quality of life. Yet, profit for human service providers is essential for sustainable service provision. This book focuses on…
"Providing human service through markets is inherently problematic. Quality care is critical and unsatisfactory human service greatly influences people's quality of life. Yet, profit for human service providers is essential for sustainable service provision. This book focuses on…
Dementia and the brain -- Types of dementia -- Dementia and loss -- Dementia and sense of self -- Understanding behaviour -- Recording behaviour -- What do people with dementia need? -- Domains of CLEAR Dementia Care -- The experience of carers -- Supporting care staff -- Case e…
Behaviour that challenges is often a sign of distress experienced by a person with dementia as they try to cope with the daily stresses of living with their condition. This book shows how to understand challenging behaviour in the context of unmet needs, with effective assessmen…
In our contemporary period of human mobility and global capitalism, political identifications are being configured in multiple sites beyond the nation-state. The text's theoretical innovation is to analyze what happens at work in terms of larger processes of political belonging.…
"Care for America's growing elderly population is increasingly provided by migrants, and the demand for health care labor is only expected to grow. Because of this health care crunch and the low barriers to entry, new African immigrants have adopted senior care as a niche employ…
In our contemporary period of human mobility and global capitalism, political identifications are being configured in multiple sites beyond the nation-state. The text's theoretical innovation is to analyze what happens at work in terms of larger processes of political belonging.…
Discourses of care: media practices and cultures
"This critical anthology, featuring a joint authored critical introductory essay and 15 specially commissioned original essays, is the first edited collection to address the relationship between media (films, television documentaries and non-theatrical cinema) in relation to the…
Discourses of care: media practices and cultures
Discourses of care: media practices and cultures
"This critical anthology, featuring a joint authored critical introductory essay and 15 specially commissioned original essays, is the first edited collection to address the relationship between media (films, television documentaries and non-theatrical cinema) in relation to the…
Discourses of care: media practices and cultures
"This critical anthology, featuring a joint authored critical introductory essay and 15 specially commissioned original essays, is the first edited collection to address the relationship between media (films, television documentaries and non-theatrical cinema) in relation to the…
The global public health community has focused care and funding on TB and HIV in Zambia, but adult policy-makers, doctors, and humanitarians often ignore children's perspectives as they confront infectious diseases. Well-intentioned practioners fail to realize how children take …
Medical anthropologist Jean Hunleth chronicles the experiences of children living with parents and guardians who are suffering from these infectious diseases and shows how their perspectives matter in the global debates about health care. Children as Caregivers examines how well…