Always on Call or What Your Doctor Wont Tell You

Always on Call

Author: Carol Levin

Always on Call explores the realities of family caregiving in the United States through the powerful personal narratives of caregivers and astute analysis by health care professionals. Newly expanded, the book illuminates the broad spectrum of caregiving and makes a compelling case for changing a system that makes greater demands on families than ever before.

Table of Contents:

	Foreword
1	Introduction : the many worlds of family caregivers	1
2	First my mother, then my aunt : a caregiver's diary of Alzheimer's disease	23
3	A crisis of caregiving, a crisis of faith	34
4	Learning to be a caregiver, trying to be a brother	45
5	Pushing the boundaries in assisted living : failures in caring	54
6	Family caregiving : both sides now	66
7	Bringing up Alex : a parent becomes an advocate	77
8	The courage of caring	87
9	The loneliness of the long-term caregiver	99
10	From sadness to pride : seven common emotional experiences of caregiving	111
11	Caregiving and the workplace	126
12	The financial impact of caregiving	136
13	Social workers, the health care team, and caregiver advocacy	149
14	The trouble with families : toward an ethic of accommodation	166
15	'Til death do us part : family caregiving at the end of life	176
16	Caregiving on the public policy agenda	193
17	The visiting doctors program : bringing care home	208
18	Windows to the heart : a family-centered hospital unit for dementia patients	221
19	Connecting caregivers through technology	235
20	On the quest for resources : a guide for caregivers and professionals	253

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What Your Doctor Won't Tell You: Today's Alternative Medical Treatments Explained to Help You Find the Latest in Alternative Medicine

Author: Jane Heimlich

Take Charge of Your Own Health

From hypertension to hardening of the arteries, cancer to cataracts, Heimlich's authoritative guide surveys the latest nonconventional medical treatments for today's most prevalent diseases. What Your Doctor Won't Tell You is an objective, up-to-the minute sourcebook on the most significant alternative approaches to health, including:

Antioxidants • Bach Flower Remedies • Biomagnetism

Colon Detoxification • Electrodiagnosis • Fish Oils • Homeopathy

Kinesiology • Live Cell Therapy • Macrobiotics

Orthomolecular Medicine • Ozone Therapy • Vitamin C Infusion

• And much more

What Your Doctor Wont Tell You introduces you to a new world of medical doctors trained in nutrition and preventive medicine. Heimlich offers objective appraisals of dozens of mainstream medical treatments, from chemotherapy to bypass surgery, and describes why the medical establishment continues to rely on toxic drugs and ineffective treatments owing to its ties with big business and government.

Covering both time-honored and cutting-edge procedures, What Your Doctor Won't Tell You is an in-depth overview of the best that alternative medicine has to offer.

Booknews

A critique of the mainstream medical treatments for the most prevalent diseases, and a guide to the panoply of alternative approaches. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)