Life Care

The cultural and medical history of dementia and Alzheimer's disease by a leading psychiatrist and bioethicist who urges us to turn our focus from cure to care.

A curious thing happens when Jesus comes into his ministry: He touches. Jesus touches the sick and the outcast, the bleeding and the unclean. What could it mean for families, singles, marriages, churches, communities, and the world to have healthy, pure, faithful, ministering touch? Somewhere in the mess of our assumptions and fears about touch, there is something beautiful and good and God-given. As Jesus can show us, there is ministry in touching.

As an active surgeon and former department chairman, Dr. Paul A. Ruggieri has seen the good, the bad, and the ugly of his profession. In Confessions of a Surgeon, he pushes open the doors of the OR and reveals the inscrutable place where lives are improved, saved, and sometimes lost. He shares the successes, failures, remarkable advances, and camaraderie that make it exciting.

In gripping prose, one of the world's leading cardiac surgeons lays bare both the wonder and the horror of a life spent a heartbeat away from death. When Stephen Westaby witnessed a patient die on the table during open-heart surgery for the first time, he was struck by the quiet, determined way the surgeons walked away. As he soon understood, this detachment is a crucial survival strategy in a profession where death is only a heartbeat away. In Open Heart, Westaby reflects on over 11,000 surgeries, showing us why the procedures have never become routine and will never be.

Are you thinking about adding a little furry friend to your family, but you don’t know where to start looking? Don’t fear! The good news is you can rest assured that Puppy Training for Beginners in 7 Easy Steps: Complete Guide to the Basics of Training Your Puppy for Life Long Results offers you everything that you need to make sure you are the perfect puppy trainer, fully prepared to raise one of your own. With these seven easy steps, anyone will be able to follow them and train their own puppy for life!

From Dr. Rosanne M. Leipzig, a top doctor with more than thirty-five years of experience caring for older people, Honest Aging is an indispensable guide to the second half of life, describing what to expect physically, psychologically, functionally, and emotionally as you age.

While the number of patients using medical marijuana increases every year, misconceptions about cannabis and whether it's harmful or dangerous still exist. In Cannabis for Chronic Pain, Dr. Rav explains the potential of marijuana's capacity for healing anyone afflicted with chronic pain. Medical marijuana is a safe, nonaddictive alternative to dangerous opiate pain pills. Cannabis for Chronic Pain is the new definitive guide for anyone who suffers from chronic pain.

Embark on a transformative odyssey with Transforming Lives with Dialectical Behavior Therapy. This is not just a book, it's a gateway to a rejuvenating mental, emotional, and interpersonal metamorphosis. It's your roadmap to a healthier, more balanced life, brimming with enriched relationships, heightened mindfulness, and emotional stability. With the guidance provided in this book, you'll find DBT isn't merely a therapeutic approach—it's a transformative lifestyle that brings about lasting change.

A naturalist who spent months at a time living on her own among wild creatures in remote jungles, Sy Montgomery had always felt more comfortable with animals than with people. So she gladly opened her heart to a sick piglet who had been crowded away from nourishing meals by his stronger siblings. Yet Sy had no inkling that this piglet, later named Christopher Hogwood, would not only survive but flourish.

Unlock the untapped power within you — discover the profound wisdom of your animal mind. Bestselling psychologist Steve Biddulph reveals a groundbreaking insight: we possess not just one, but two minds. While our familiar, analytical mind dominates in today’s busy, modern world, our primal...

There’s a version of you that is strong, confident, and unstoppable—but right now, maybe she feels out of reach. Maybe you feel lost, overwhelmed, or unsure of who you really are. Maybe no one ever taught you how to take care of yourself in a way that actually makes a difference. That’s where this book comes in. The Self-Care Book for Teenage Girls is more than just a guide—it’s an invitation to step into your power, trust yourself, and create a life that feels good from the inside out.

Kek comes from Africa. In America, he sees snow for the first time, and feels its sting. He’s never walked on ice, and he falls. He wonders if the people in this new place will be like the winter - cold and unkind. In Africa, Kek lived with his mother, father, and brother. But only he and his mother have survived, and now she’s missing. Kek is on his own. Slowly, he makes friends: A girl who is in foster care, an old woman who owns a rundown farm, and a cow whose name means “family” in his native language.

Echoing an enduring message of rare vulnerability and uplifting positivity, On the Other Side of Terminal is a powerful book that shares author Allen Chankowsky’s inspiring and deeply authentic account of his 30-year relationship with cancer. Shattering all expectations, Allen bravely exposes the depths in which he struggled to overcome his rare form of stage-4 cancer. With a palpable sense of unmistakable urgency, his unique style skillfully illuminates the emotional strength it takes to manage the realities of living with a world-crushing diagnosis.

It’s good to be active! But listeners need to know how to stay safe both indoors and outdoors. Essential safety tips involving helmets, sunscreen, fire, and more are provided.

How do dogs think? Do they fantasize? Do they dream? What do their barks, whines, and growls tell other dogs? How do they communicate in groups, and why do they form hierarchies? What do dogs want? Anthropologist Elizabeth Marshall Thomas attempts to answer these and other questions about a species that has been with mankind for over 20,000 years and still remains a mystery. Based on 30 years and hundreds of thousands of hours of research, this volume describes behavior every dog owner has seen thousands of times but will now understand for only the first time.

You spend your days going after some future “good life”—that place where you’ll have the right house, career, vacations, and relationships that we’re told are the prime ingredients. Once you get there, you think you’ll find the satisfaction and fulfillment you’ve been looking for. You won’t feel so disconnected, distracted, and restless once you achieve those things. Then your life will really begin.

The last thing Gwen Cooper wanted was another cat. She already had two, not to mention a phenomenally underpaying job and a recently broken heart. Then Gwen’s veterinarian called with a story about a three-week-old eyeless kitten who’d been abandoned. It was love at first sight.

Are you feeling overwhelmed or disconnected from things that once mattered to you? As we rely more and more on technology, it isn't hard to see why the devices meant to simplify our lives can often cause us the most stress. In this refreshing, practical book, you'll learn ways to reclaim some of the calm and focus that have slipped away with the influx of so much technology. And along the way, you'll gain new insights that bring you more connectedness and give you new ways of increasing happiness - all by your own design.

Como principal fonte de energia, a glicose impacta de maneira surpreendente o nosso corpo. Se a concentração no sangue fica muito alta, ocorrem respostas das mais variadas: compulsões alimentares, espinhas, enxaqueca, névoa mental, oscilações de humor, ganho de peso, sonolência e infertilidade. E, com o passar do tempo, esse desequilíbrio pode contribuir para o desenvolvimento de doenças como diabetes tipo 2, síndrome do ovário policístico, câncer, demência e cardiopatias.

Spanning the entire life and afterlife of her dog, Brio, including his last days and his messages to the author after he passed on, this audiobook explores Mannes' investigations into the spiritual life of animals, offering a new understanding of the unbreakable bond between humans and animals. Mannes invites listeners to move beyond the owner-pet relationship and shows us how to see animals as thinking, feeling, spiritual beings whose connections with us extend far beyond life and death.