Coping with Chronic Illness
This list includes titles on how to cope with your own chronic illness.
A beginner's guide to the end : practical advice for living life and facing death
Miller, Bruce J., 1971- author
2019
Conversations on dying : a palliative-care pioneer faces his own death
Dwyer, Phil, 1955- author
2016
Live and laugh with dementia : the essential guide to maximizing quality of life
Low, Lee-Fay, author
2018
The living kitchen : healing recipes to support your body during cancer treatment and recovery
Grossman, Sarah, author
2018
Living with the long-term effects of cancer : acknowledging trauma and other emotional challenges
Galgut, Cordelia, author
2020
Surviving and thriving with an invisible chronic illness : how to stay sane and live one step ahead of your symptoms
Jacqueline, Ilana, author
2018
What does it feel like to die? : inspiring new insights into the experience of dying
Dear, Jennie, author
2019
Inspired by her own personal journey with her mother's long-term illness, Jennie Dear demystifies the experience of dying for everyone whose lives it touches. She spoke to doctors, nurses, and caregivers, as well as families, friends, and the patients themselves. The result is a brilliantly researched, eye-opening account that combines the latest medical findings with sensitive human insights to offer real emotional support and answers to some of the questions that affect us all.
What to eat during cancer treatment
Besser, Jeanne.
2018
"Featuring 102 new dishes, this second edition provides practical suggestions to help patients and their caregivers anticipate--and overcome--the major challenges of eating well during treatment. What to Eat During Cancer Treatment offers evidence-based research and clinical information about the seven most common eating-related side effects of cancer treatment--nausea, diarrhea, constipation, trouble swallowing, sore mouth, unintentional weight loss, and taste alterations--and the foods to eat when these side effects occur. Throughout the book are beautiful, full-color photographs, along with tips for caregivers, food safety basics, strategies for avoiding excess weight gain, ways to deal with vitamin deficiencies, and more"-- Provided by publisher.
Will I still be me? : finding a continuing sense of self in the lived experience of dementia
Bryden, Christine, 1949-
2018
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.