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Untangling Lives
"Untangling Lives: A Psychiatrist Remembers" is a memoir that focuses on how a psychiatrist separates his own personal history and experiences from the narratives of his patients in psychotherapy, particularly around the issues of loss and recovery. Dr. Nathan Billig, a psychiatrist, provides autobiographical material, patient therapy descriptions (identities and circumstances disguised), and remembered excerpts from his own personal psychoanalysis to demonstrate the importance of the therapist understanding his own past as he treats patients in psychotherapy. This compelling memoir shares a set of memories, reminiscences, and descriptions of therapist and patient interactions, showing the importance of the therapeutic relationship and alliance in the treatment situation.
Growing Older and Wiser
Older adults are more diverse biologically, socially, and psychologically than any other age group. This guide to understanding the mental health of older people reveals how to cope with the normal aging process and see its potentially positive aspects while dealing with its problems.
Defining Treatment Value
"Alzheimer's disease typically involves severe dysfunctions of cognition and behavior that pose significant challenges in the long-term care setting. Dr. Nathan Billig, MD, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, and Kathleen Buckwalter, PhD, RN, FAAN, Associate Provost for Health Services, University of Iowa, Iowa City, provide an overview of both Alzheimer's disease and current treatment strategies at a symposium held March 4, 1999, in conjunction with the American Medical Directors Association's Annual Symposium in Orlando, FL".
Legal and Healthcare Ethics for the Elderly
Increasingly, legislators at the state and federal levels of government are forced to evaluate and act upon the unique problems presented by an aging American public. A domino effect has occurred, evoking concern in educational circles to deal with the varied, complex issues associated with the "new" gerontology. This expanded focus brings in not only mental and public health delivery issues, but reaches and impacts on the social sciences, ethics, law and medicine as well as public policy. In response to these matters, Legal and Healthcare Ethics for the Elderly provides a balanced analytical presentation of the complicated socio-legal, medico-ethical and political perspectives which interac...
Surgeon General's Workshop, Health Promotion and Aging
Abstract: This publication presents the proceedings of a workshop on health promotion among the aging. Topics include: Year 2000 health objectives for the U.S., legislative and administration interests in geriatric health promotion, and international geriatric health promotion study and activities. Recommendations are presented to address the concerns raised at the workshop.
Autonomy and Long-term Care
The realities and misconceptions of long-term care and the challenges it presents for the ethics of autonomy are analyzed in this perceptive work. While defending the concept of autonomy, the author argues that the standard view of autonomy as non-interference and independence has only a limited applicability for long-term care. He explains that autonomy should be understood as a comprehensiveness that defines the overall course of a person's life rather than as a way of responding to an isolated situation. Agich distinguishes actual and ideal autonomy and argues that actual autonomy is better revealed in the everyday experiences of long-term care than in dramatic, conflict-ridden paradigm s...
Who? What? Where?
A compilation of resources to help women of all ages plan for and cope with aging. Covers: age changes and health promotion (menopause, nutrition and physical fitness, sexuality in later life, skin, use of medicines); common disorders of later life (Alzheimer1s disease, cancer, depression, heart disease, osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, urinary incontinence); taking charge (caregiving, finances, housing options, widowhood); research; and additional resources (organizations, readings).
Resource Directory for Older People
A directory of names, addresses, phone numbers and fax numbers of national organizations that offer health information, legal aid, self-help programs, educational opportunities, social services, consumer advice, or other assistance. Intended to serve a wide audience, including older people and their families, health and legal professionals, social service providers, librarians, researchers, and others with an interest in the field of aging. Includes Federal government agencies, resource centers, professional societies, private groups, and volunteer programs.
The Joy of the Lord is My Strength
Music has been called the universal language. I have found very few people who do not like some genres of it. It touches all of us. The appeal of music is that the human person is affected by the ideas it promotes and the emotions it evokes. Words like rhythm, melody, harmony, and color are all included in the art of music. I have used music to introduce each chapter as I write my thoughts about life and all that it means. This book is my own description of peace, love, hope, and joy. As a Christian, I am influenced by God, Scripture, and my hope that all people would come to love and know God through the person of his son, Jesus, the Christ. When the Israelites were bringing the Ark of the Covenant into Jerusalem, "King David commanded the chiefs of the Levites to appoint their brethren as the singers who should play loudly on musical instruments, on harps and lyres and cymbals, to raise sounds of joy" (1 Chronicles 15:16 RSV). And through the challenges of life, that is why I claim Nehemiah 8:10 as the title of this work: The Joy of the Lord Is My Strength.
