Long-term care in the United States has taken the nursing home as its benchmark, but the monetary, social, and psychological costs of nursing home care are all too high. This book challenges the current dominance of nursing homes as the principal institution of long-term care. It offers a series of alternative models where both services and housing can be provided in a way that allows long-term consumers to enjoy dignified, "normal" lifestyles. It addresses the political and economic consequences of making this decision. The authors start with the premise that long-term care is designed to assist people who lack the capacity to function fully independently. They argue that no disabled person of any age should be required to forsake his/her humanity in exchange for care. The book rejects the artificial dichotomy between social and medical care, asserting that both play important roles in psychological and physical well-being of long-term care patients. The authors consider the need for competent and compassionate medicine and discuss the methods for improving both its coordination of care and its effectiveness. The book redefines the meaning of safety and protection in long-term care, and how this goal can be accomplished without sacrificing quality of living. As the new millennium and the aging of baby boomers approaches, more creative approaches to providing better long-term care are required. This volume outlines a useful framework for the provision of effective and humane community-based programs that are both feasible and affordable. It will be an invaluable guide for geriatricians, public health professionals, family physicians, nurses and others who care for elderly patients.
This book contains recent research about love and the hearts connection to the spiritual journey and healing; specific strategies that focus your creativity and spirituality to increase your healing capacities; proven methods to align your life with your soul purpose and to empower you to move beyond ego into the essence of who you truly are; activities to help you consciously access your intuition and receive specific guidance to empower your goals; information about past life times, karma, and the akashic records to empower you to deepen into your multidimensional nature and experience increased emotional, mental, and spiritual freedom; exercises to help you experience more depth, intimacy, connection with your soul and joy.
God gets us where he wants us... in spite of ourselves. Sometimes it is a winding, circuitous path to God because of things along the way that we need to learn. Often it means overcoming the hurdles of our own stubbornness or resistance. Usually there are things we need to discard, in order to be able to recognize and turn to the light. He promises us that if we knock, the door will be opened to us, and so if we seek the truth with open hearts, we will surely find it. This is Rosalie's remarkable story of such a quest, a journey from darkness to the light of the Catholic Church.
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