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Author
Publisher
Budrich Academic Press GmbH
Pub. Date
2021
Physical Desc
1 online resource (333 page)
Language
Deutsch
Description
Home care arrangements in Germany often only work because a foreign live-in carer is employed. The level of awareness of this supply model contrasts with its legally uncertain context. How are the working relationships with live-in carers for relatives of people in need of care structured? This work shows which patterns of knowledge and action guide the respondents.
Author
Publisher
ILR Press, and imprint of Cornell University Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xi, 189 pages).
Language
English
Description
Mixing personal history, interviewee voices, and academic theory from the fields of care work, the sociology of work, medical sociology, and nursing, Taking Care of Our Own introduces us to the hidden world of family caregivers. Using a multidimensional approach, Sherry N. Mong seeks to understand and analyze the types of skilled work that family caregivers do, the processes through which they learn and negotiate new skills, and the meanings that...
3) The pinballs
Author
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
600L
Physical Desc
136 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
From Newbery-winning author Betsy Byars comes a story full of "poignancy, perception, and humor" (The Chicago Tribune), about three foster kids who learn what it takes to make a family.
You can't always decide where life will take you-especially when you're a kid.
Carlie knows she's got no say in what happens to her. Stuck in a foster home with two other kids, Harvey and Thomas J, she's just a pinball being bounced from bumper to bumper. As soon...
Author
Pub. Date
1997
Lexile measure
750L
Physical Desc
150 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Katie, a foster child, wants only one thing for Christmas: a family. However, there are no wise men coming from the East or shepherds watching in the fields. There’s also a teenager named Matt, who believes in doing a good deed. And another teenager, Liz, whose family decorates and celebrates but leaves her wondering where the true meaning of the holiday has gone. And Mr. Knight and his son, Tack, who run an inn and put up a tree each season,
...Series
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
"A caregiver (usually also known as informal caregiver) is an often unpaid and without formal training (in the related disease) member of a person's social network who helps them with activities of daily living. Caregiving is most commonly used to address impairments related to old age, disability, a disease or a mental disorder. Typical duties of a caregiver might include taking care of someone who has a chronic illness or disease; managing medications...
Publisher
J. Wiley & Sons
Pub. Date
©2001
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xii, 242 pages) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
Continuing Wiley's American Medical Association health guides series, this sensitive, reliable resource provides step-by-step instructions and much-needed guidance and encouragement to anyone who is caring for a loved one at home. Fully illustrated throughout, the American Medical Association Guide to Home Caregiving discusses the general aspects of caregiving as well as the specific tasks required for caring for a person with a particular illness...
Author
Series
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Formats
Description
This Newbery Honor book about a girl who has never known family fighting for her first true home “will leave readers . . . satisfied” (Kirkus Reviews).
A Kirkus Reviews Best Middle Grade Book of the Century
Hollis Woods
is the place where a baby was abandoned
is the baby’s name
is an artist
is now a twelve-year-old girl
who’s been in so many foster...
A Kirkus Reviews Best Middle Grade Book of the Century
Hollis Woods
is the place where a baby was abandoned
is the baby’s name
is an artist
is now a twelve-year-old girl
who’s been in so many foster...
10) Touch blue
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
750L
Physical Desc
186 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When the state of Maine threatens to shut down their island's one-room schoolhouse because of dwindling enrollment, eleven-year-old Tess, a strong believer in luck, and her family take in a trumpet-playing foster child, to increase the school's population.
Author
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xi, 228 pages) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
As child welfare increasingly enters a world of research-based practice Children in Foster Care provides some much needed hard evidence of how foster care policy and practice can be improved.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
266 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Logan, an undersized twelve-year-old orphan with a photographic memory and no filter, discovers that his foster parents are superheroes in grave danger and only Logan's highly logical mind can save them.
15) A family apart
Author
Lexile measure
820L
Physical Desc
162 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
When their mother can no longer support them, six siblings are sent by the Children's Aid Society of New York City to live with farm families in Missouri in 1860.
Author
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
Watch out world! The Great Gilly Hopkins is looking for a home. She's a foster kid who's been angry, lonely, and hurting for so long that's she's always ready for a fight. Be on the lookout for her best barracuda smile, the one she saves for well-meaning social workers. Watch out for her most fearful look, a cross between Dracula and Godzilla, used especially to scare shy foster brothers. Don't be fooled by her "Who me?" expression, guaranteed to...
Publisher
RAND
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Direct service workers (DSWs) provide personal care or nonmedical services to individuals who need assistance with activities of daily living. Direct service work is very physically and emotionally demanding, and pay for DSWs is too low to attract a stable and sufficiently trained pool of workers that is adequate for the needs of the vulnerable individuals who require their assistance. To help address this issue, in 2003-2004 the Centers for Medicare...
Author
Publisher
Trigger Publishing, an imprint of Shaw Callaghan Ltd
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
There can be a lot of understandable fear and worry when a loved one receives a diagnosis of dementia. Whilst the stigma of dementia can be powerful it should not restrict a person from finding meaning and purpose in life. Psychologists Dr Michelle Hamill and Dr Martina McCarthy believe that a holistic and relationship-centred understanding of dementia can help to acknowledge the challenges of the condition, whilst enabling people to live with dignity....
20) Little cub
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young bear cub, who is alone in the world, and Old Bear, who is grumpy and tired of living alone, meet and discover what they have been missing.
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