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The Patient Revolution
How We Can Heal the Healthcare System
David Gilbert
Powerful real-life stories of 'patient leaders' - ordinary people affected by life-changing illnesses, disabilities, or conditions, who are revolutionising the healthcare system, and improving patient care and support, by putting themselves at the heart of decision-making processes. Learn More2019, Paperback / softback, 8.43in x 5.35in / 214mm x 136mm, 272pp, $19.95ISBN: 97817859253822019, Ebook, ePUB, $19.95ISBN: 978-1-78450-932-3 -
Dear Alzheimer's
A Diary of Living with Dementia
Keith Oliver. Foreword by Professor Linda Clare and Rachael Litherland
Keith Oliver was diagnosed with young onset dementia in 2010, and has since become a leading activist for dementia care, and an international speaker. Telling his story through a diary format, this book gives an unparalleled insight into what day-to-day life with dementia is like, and how he continued to live a full life after diagnosis. Learn More2019, Paperback / softback, 9.02in x 6.06in / 229mm x 154mm, 352pp, $18.95ISBN: 97817859250302019, Ebook, ePUB, $18.95ISBN: 978-1-78450-898-2 -
White Privilege Unmasked
How to Be Part of the Solution
Judy Ryde
This book explores how white people view cultural differences through a prism of privilege, and how this can impact personal and professional interactions. The book looks at the history of white privilege, the divisive effects it has on the world, and how organisations and individuals can practically respond to racism and white privilege. Learn More2019, Paperback / softback, 8.98in x 5.91in / 228mm x 150mm, 192pp, $21.95ISBN: 97817859240882019, Ebook, ePUB, $21.95ISBN: 978-1-78450-767-1 -
Practical Nutrition and Hydration for Dementia-Friendly Mealtimes
Lee Martin. Foreword by Caroline Lecko
This book offers guidance on ensuring that individuals with dementia can maintain a high standard of nutritional intake alongside increased independence at mealtimes. It explains how dementia impacts on mealtime abilities, with practical guidance on how to enhance these abilities and interventions for overcoming common issues. Learn More2019, Paperback / softback, 7.56in x 6.06in / 192mm x 154mm, 264pp, $26.95ISBN: 978-1-84905-700-42019, Ebook, ePUB, $26.95ISBN: 978-1-78450-221-8 -
Suicide Prevention Techniques
How a Suicide Crisis Service Saves Lives
Joy Hibbins
Focusing on the methods used at a ground-breaking Suicide Crisis Centre which has a zero suicide achievement, this guide offers strategies to help people in suicidal crisis. Founded after the author's own suicidal experience, it challenges the established ways of working in mental health and sets out a new way to provide crisis care. Learn More2018, Paperback / softback, 8.98in x 5.98in / 228mm x 152mm, 144pp, $24.95ISBN: 97817859254982018, Ebook, ePUB, $24.95ISBN: 978-1-78450-949-1 -
Reducing the Symptoms of Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Dementias
A Guide to Personal Cognitive Rehabilitation Techniques
Jackie Pool
Practical and innovative, this book provides guidance for people with dementia, their families and carers. Comprehensive myth-busting information on nutrition, stress, communication, sleep and cognitive rehabilitation techniques will allow readers to build a personalised self-care plan to reduce dementia symptoms and improve quality of life. Learn More2018, Paperback / softback, 8.43in x 5.43in / 214mm x 138mm, 176pp, $21.95ISBN: 97817859257882018, Ebook, ePUB, 160pp, $21.95ISBN: 978-1-78450-992-7 -
Will I Still Be Me?
Finding a Continuing Sense of Self in the Lived Experience of Dementia
Christine Bryden
Christine Bryden was diagnosed with dementia in 1995, but her experiences do not reflect the mainstream discourse of loss of self while living with dementia. In this book she explains why people with dementia have a meaningful and continuing sense of self and calls for a different understanding of dementia that results in greater inclusion. Learn More2018, Paperback / softback, 8.78in x 6.77in / 223mm x 172mm, 144pp, $18.95ISBN: 97817859255592018, Ebook, ePUB, 144pp, $18.95ISBN: 978-1-78450-950-7 -
Voices from Captivity
Incarceration from Siberia to Guantánamo Bay
J E Thomas
Offering insight into the unseen world of life in prison, this book presents a broad range of first-hand testimonies of people writing from prisons and concentration camps over a number of centuries and from different countries. Organised thematically, it covers feelings on being locked up, how to deal with staff, and sex in captivity. Learn More2018, Paperback / softback, 8.98in x 6.06in / 228mm x 154mm, 432pp, $24.95ISBN: 97817859249892018, Ebook, ePUB, 424pp, $24.95ISBN: 978-1-78450-884-5 -
Yoga for Dementia
A Guide for People with Dementia, Their Families and Caregivers
Tania Plahay. Foreword by Professor Martin Green OBE.
With yoga sequences, breathing exercises and meditations, this book shows care home staff and family carers how to use yoga to help people with dementia reduce the negative effects of their symptoms. The programme can be used with both individuals and groups, and can adapted for a range of abilities. Learn More2018, Paperback / softback, 10.08in x 7.09in / 256mm x 180mm, 264pp, $24.95ISBN: 97817859215992018, Ebook, ePUB, 264pp, $21.95ISBN: 978-1-78450-433-5 -
Forgiveness is Really Strange
Masi Noor and Marina Cantacuzino. Art by Sophie Standing.
This comic, based on science and real-life stories, illustrates the complexity of forgiveness and what it can mean to different people and its potential for positive change. It explores the key aspects of forgiveness and the impact it can have on the mind and psyche. Learn More2018, Hardback, 7.20in x 5.20in / 183mm x 132mm, 64pp, $14.95ISBN: 97817859212472018, Ebook, PDF, 64pp, $14.95ISBN: 978-0-85701-279-1
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