Author: Carol Schaefer
Publisher: Trumpeter
Keywords: offer, vision, planet, elders, women, counsel, world, grandmothers
Number of Pages: 213
Published: 2006-11-14
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 1590302931
ISBN-13: 9781590302934
We are thirteen indigenous grandmothers. . . . We are deeply concerned with the unprecedented destruction of our Mother Earth, the atrocities of war, the global scourge of poverty, the prevailing culture of materialism, the epidemics that threaten the health of the Earth’s peoples, and with the destruction of indigenous ways of life. We, the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers, believe that our ancestral ways of prayer, peacemaking, and healing are vitally needed today. . . . We believe that the teachings of our ancestors will light our way through an uncertain futu
Author: Gail Milissa Grant
Publisher: Missouri History Museum Press
Keywords: civil, rights, journey, family, elders, one, elbows
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2008-10-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1883982669
ISBN-13: 9781883982669
Authors:Camille Cosby, Rene Poussaint,
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Keywords: elders, speak, american, african, wisdom, legendary, wealth
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2007-02-13
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0743482298
ISBN-13: 9780743482295
The wisdom of our elders is our most valuable resource. In A Wealth of Wisdom, a collection of stories, experiences, and observations of more than fifty African Americans, ages seventy and over, extraordinary men and women explain how we as a nation got to where we are. With accounts by everyone from Maya Angelou and Ray Charles to Robert Guillaume and Coretta Scott King, these pivotal leaders -- representing every region in the nation and covering a wide range of professional and personal lifestyles -- take us behind their historic public moments to their underlying personal realities. The ed
Author: Lucia McBee LCSW MPH
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
Keywords: frail, elders, caregivers, model, cam, based, elder, care, mindfulness
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2008-03-21
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 082611511X
ISBN-13: 9780826115119
"She shares with us her gold - the conception, trial and error implementation, and initial scientific investigation of a new, educationally-oriented treatment approach that she has named mindfulness-based elder care (MBEC)." -from the Foreword by Saki Santorelli, EdD, MA , Associate Professor of Medicine, Society University of Massachusetts Medical School Features of this groundbreaking volume include: " Valuable tips for establishing programs in each population " Detailed experiential exercises " Case studies " Clear instructions for elders and caregivers at all levels This boo
Author: Neville Strumpf PhD RN C FAANJoanne Robinson PhD
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
Keywords: frail, elders, approaches, individualized, free, care, restraint
Number of Pages: 151
Published: 1998-10-15
List price: $52.00
ISBN-10: 0826112153
ISBN-13: 9780826112156
Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Manual for nurses on the alternatives of restraining patients. Outline format. Stresses not only comfort and safety, but the best possible quality of life. Requires caregivers to make sense of clients’ behaviors, not to simply control their responses. Softcover. DNLM: Geriatric Nursing--methods.
Authors:Sara Aleman, Tanya Fitzpatrick, Thanh V. Tran, Elizab
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: social, issues, health, elders, interventions, ethnic, therapeutic
Number of Pages: 236
Published: 2000-02-02
List price: $69.95
ISBN-10: 0789002728
ISBN-13: 9780789002723
Therapeutic Interventions with Ethnic Elders provides cultural specific information to health and social work professionals who are preparing to or are already working with ethnic elders. You will explore distinctive qualities that are found in ten different ethnic groups to help you better serve these populations. The historical events that have shaped how these elders react to mainstream providers are also included to show you that they have legitimate reasons for some of their fears and may need to be approached and treated differently. Ideas on how to effectively approach these ethnic elde
Author: Benjamin Merkle
Publisher: Kregel Academic & Professional
Keywords: questions, series, answers, deacons, elders, amp
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2007-11-29
List price: $17.99
ISBN-10: 0825433649
ISBN-13: 9780825433641
Arranged in a Q & A format, this volume tackles the major questions that pastors, church leaders, and students ask about congregational church government.
