Free Download The Inevitable Hour: A History of Caring for Dying Patients in America By Emily K. Abel
2013 | 237 Pages | ISBN: 1421409194 | PDF | 3 MB
At the turn of the twentieth century, medicine's imperative to cure disease increasingly took priority over the demand to relieve pain and suffering at the end of life. Filled with heartbreaking stories, The Inevitable Hour demonstrates that professional attention and resources gradually were diverted from dying patients.Emily K. Abel challenges three myths about health care and dying in America. First, that medicine has always sought authority over death and dying; second, that medicine superseded the role of families and spirituality at the end of life; and finally, that only with the advent of the high-tech hospital did an institutional death become dehumanized. Abel shows that hospitals resisted accepting dying patients and often worked hard to move them elsewhere. Poor, terminally ill patients, for example, were shipped from Bellevue Hospital in open boats across the East River to Blackwell's Island, where they died in hovels, mostly without medical care. Some terminal patients were not forced to leave, yet long before the advent of feeding tubes and respirators, dying in a hospital was a profoundly dehumanizing experience.With technological advances, passage of the Social Security Act, and enactment of Medicare and Medicaid, almshouses slowly disappeared and conditions for dying patients improved―though, as Abel argues, the prejudices and approaches of the past are still with us. The problems that plagued nineteenth-century almshouses can be found in many nursing homes today, where residents often receive substandard treatment. A frank portrayal of the medical care of dying people past and present, The Inevitable Hour helps to explain why a movement to restore dignity to the dying arose in the early 1970s and why its goals have been so difficult to achieve.

Free Download Caring for the People of the Clouds: Aging and Dementia in Oaxaca By Jonathan Yahalom
2019 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 0806162686 | PDF | 11 MB
In rural Mexico, people often say that Alzheimer's does not exist. "People do not have Alzheimer's because they don't need to worry," said one Oaxacan, explaining that locals lack the stresses that people face "over there"-that is, in the modern world. Alzheimer's and related dementias carry a stigma. In contrast to the way elders are revered for remembering local traditions, dementia symbolizes how modern families have forgotten the communal values that bring them together.In Caring for the People of the Clouds, psychologist Jonathan Yahalom provides an emotionally evocative, story-rich analysis of family caregiving for Oaxacan elders living with dementia. Based on his extensive research in a Zapotec community, Yahalom presents the conflicted experience of providing care in a setting where illness is steeped in stigma and locals are concerned about social cohesion. Traditionally, the Zapotec, or "people of the clouds," respected their elders and venerated their ancestors. Dementia reveals the difficulty of upholding those ideals today. Yahalom looks at how dementia is understood in a medically pluralist landscape, how it is treated in a setting marked by social tension, and how caregivers endure challenges among their families and the broader community.Yahalom argues that caregiving involves more than just a response to human dependency; it is central to regenerating local values and family relationships threatened by broader social change. In so doing, the author bridges concepts in mental health with theory from medical anthropology. Unique in its interdisciplinary approach, this book advances theory pertaining to cross-cultural psychology and develops anthropological insights about how aging, dementia, and caregiving disclose the intimacies of family life in Oaxaca.

Free Download Monica E. Mulrennan, "Caring for Eeyou Istchee: Protected Area Creation on Wemindji Cree Territory"
English | ISBN: 0774838582 | 2019 | 428 pages | PDF | 3 MB
How do Indigenous communities in Canada balance the development needs of a growing population with cultural commitments and responsibilities as stewards of their lands and waters? Caring for Eeyou Istchee recounts the extraordinary experience of the James Bay Cree community of Wemindji, Quebec, who partnered with a multidisciplinary research team to protect territory of great cultural significance in ways that respect community values and circumstances. This volume tackles fundamental questions, such as: What is "environmental protection"? What should be protected? What factors inform community goals? How does the natural and cultural history of an area inform protected area design? How can the authority and autonomy of Indigenous institutions of land and sea stewardship-and the knowledge integral to them-be respected and reinforced? In answering these questions, Indigenous and non-Indigenous contributors present a comprehensive account of one of the world's most dynamic coastal environments. More particularly, they demonstrate how protected area creation is a powerful process for supporting Indigenous environmental stewardship, and cultural heritage.

Free Download Eileen Boris, "Caring for America: Home Health Workers in the Shadow of the Welfare State"
English | ISBN: 0195329112 | 2012 | 320 pages | PDF | 5 MB
In this sweeping narrative history from the Great Depression of the 1930s to the Great Recession of today, Caring for America rethinks both the history of the American welfare state from the perspective of care work and chronicles how home care workers eventually became one of the most vibrant forces in the American labor movement. Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein demonstrate the ways in which law and social policy made home care a low-waged job that was stigmatized as welfare and relegated to the bottom of the medical hierarchy.

Free Download Annie's, "Caring Crochet"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1573677701 | EPUB | pages: 48 | 6.5 mb
Comfortable crochet designs for those in need

Free Download William H. McGill Jr., Danny Campbell (Narrator), "Relentless Caring: If You Don't Give a Damn, Don't Expect Anyone Else To"
English | ASIN: B0CSWQ5MH3 | 2024 | M4B@64 kbps | ~06:38:00 | 195 MB
Relentless Caring details an approach to leadership focused on the well-being of others.
By following its step-by-step guide to delivering kindness every day at all levels of your organization and to all your customers, you will earn dedicated employees, repeat customers-and, ultimately, profitability.
As founder and executive chairman of MarineMax, William H. McGill Jr. helped transform the company from a disparate group of boat dealers into a highly profitable $2 billion global conglomerate.

Free Download Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez, "Decolonial Mourning and the Caring Commons: Migration-Coloniality Necropolitics and Conviviality Infrastructure "
English | ISBN: 1839988770 | 2023 | 264 pages | EPUB/PDF | 1006 KB
This book is the product of an endless individual and collective process of mourning. It departs from the author's mourning for her parents, their histories and struggles in Germany as Gastarbeiter, while it also engages with the political mourning of intersectional feminist movements against feminicide inCentral and South America; the struggles against state and police misogynoir violence of #SayHerName in the United States; the resistance of refugees and migrantized people against the coloniality of migration in Germany; and the intense political grief work of families, relatives, and friends who lost their loved ones in racist attacks from the 1980s until today in Germany. Bearing witness to their stories and accounts, this book explores how mourning is shaped both by its historical context and the political labor of caring commons, while it also follows the building of a conviviality infrastructure of support against migration-coloniality necropolitics, dwelling toward transformative and reparative practices of common justice.

Free Download Caring for Cultural Heritage: An Integrated Approach to Legal and Ethical Initiatives in the United Kingdom
English | 2024 | ISBN: 110849840X | 385 Pages | PDF | 2.4 MB
This book explores how cultural heritage and its care are translated in UK law and non-law instruments. It analyses how communities of care look after cultural heritage because they care about it. These communities include the international and national community, national and local governments, courts, professional bodies, institutions such as museums as well as community groups. 'Care' refers to the varied ways in which communities engage with cultural heritage to maintain it, sustain relationships about it and with it, use it and provide access to it, with a view to passing it on to future generations. The book also assesses how far these nested practices of care assist communities of care in providing respectful, empathetic and dialogical care to navigate harm to cultural heritage. It will be of interest to scholars of cultural heritage studies across disciplines, including law, sociology and anthropology, as well as policymakers and practitioners in cultural heritage management.

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by Jonathan D. Rose
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1421447282 | 304 pages | True EPUB | 5.16 MB

Free Download Caring for the Family Caregiver: Palliative Care Communication and Health Literacy
English | 2021 | ISBN: 0190055235 | 241 Pages | PDF (True) | 3.2 MB
Caring for the Family Caregiver examines the high cost and poorly addressed exigencies of the family caregiver in chronic illness, including health literacy, palliative care, and health outcomes, through the prism of communication. This book uses an interdisciplinary approach to identify the impact of communication and its burdens on the caregiver and presents four caregiver profiles: the Manager, Carrier, Partner, and Lone caregiver, each emerging from a family system with different patterns of conversational sharing and expectations of conformity. By synthesizing current data assessing the experiences of caregivers, as well as integrating the narrative experiences of a range of caregivers living through a variety of illnesses and their specific demands, the authors deliver an unflinching gaze at the journey of the caregiver.