Resultados para "Löre" en Enfermedad física y trastornos

Meet the exhausted group of caregiving mothers who offer extraordinary care to a child with disabilities or unique needs. These unsung heroes, who walk invisibly among us, dedicate time, energy, love, and their entire lives to help their loved one who is unable to help themselves. A child with a rare degenerative disease. A sibling with autism. A teen wading through anxiety and depression. An adult child with a debilitating illness. A child with extreme ADHD.

New Possibilities in Memory Care: The Silverado Story is a wonderful epic of the journey of two men to make a difference in the lives of older individuals with memory-impairment. Loren Shook and Stephen Winner resolved to build care communities that would preserve the human spirit and dignity of the community residents. The dream took shape in the form of Silverado with an insistence on compassionate, excellent care that Silverado provides. Whether in a living community, at home, or in hospice, Silverado strives to make the human journey to the end of life a dignified and fulfilling one.

“Discharged from a hospital just means you’re not dead.” These words of Ralph B. Lilly, M.D., describe his early struggle to recover from a traumatic brain injury. Lilly was a forty-four-year-old practicing neurologist sitting on his motorcycle at a red light when a drunk driver rear-ended him in 1980. In the ICU, after regaining consciousness and being told what happened, he asked, “What’s a hospital? What’s a motorcycle?” This tragic experience transformed his life and his approach to his neurology practice: doctors treat those with brain injury; but loved ones heal them.

This captivating history of medicine traces healing practices from the Stone Age to modern times, highlighting ancient knowledge and plant-based treatments. This absorbing history of medicine takes the reader on a sweeping journey, revealing that Western medicine has its origins not only in the...