Every Womans Guide to Diabetes or Nutrition and Hydration in Hospice Care

Every Woman's Guide to Diabetes: What You Need to Know to Lower Your Risk and Beat the Odds

Author: Stephanie A Eisenstat MD

Women have long needed a book devoted to their unique issues with diabetes. This up-to-date and practical guide advocates simple lifestyle changes that can help women reduce their risk of getting diabetes or, if already diagnosed, prevent the disease’s most serious complications. Every Woman’s Guide to Diabetes translates the latest findings from diabetes research into proven strategies busy women can use to stay healthy and gain control over an often overwhelming disease. The authors discuss the nature of diabetes, helping readers through the complex medical decisions involved in diabetes treatment. They highlight strategies to decrease the emotional stress and social isolation that often accompany diagnosis, and offer everyday techniques for managing blood sugar.

Key features include:

• unique aspects of diabetes for women throughout the life cycle



• timetable of recommended tests and check-ups



• guide to medications with common dosages



• charts to help organize diabetes-care tasks and supplies



• time-management tips for better disease regulation



• guide to contraceptives available to women with diabetes



• review of issues critical to women before, during, and following pregnancy



• advice for overcoming barriers to weight loss and exercise



• plan for intelligent diet trade-offs while still enjoying meals



• practical tips for planning exercise



• strategies to avoid diabetes “burn-out”

Written by two physicians, one of whom is a woman living with diabetes,and an experienced medical writer, Every Woman’s Guide to Diabetes recognizes the power that women have in their households to effect lifestyle changes that will benefit themselves and loved ones, including their mothers, daughters, sisters, and partners. This power can reduce the toll of the diabetes epidemic.

What People Are Saying

Sandra T. Foo
It's refreshing to see a book that focuses on motivating, educating, and helping women to take charge of their health and diabetes. The authors offer a wonderfully personal approach for any woman with diabetes, and Every Woman's Guide to Diabetes is an empowering tool to help her gain control, become diabetes-savvy, and form a plan of action. As an endocrinologist sensitive to issues of women with type 1 and type 2 diabetes, I strongly recommend this book-- it's a must-read. --(Sandra T. Foo, M.D. Diabetes Prevention Program Outcomes Study, St. Luke's-Roosevelt Medical Center)

Donna Zimmer
Women have unique issues with diabetes. If you're a woman, are you at risk? Do you know how to find out or what to do about it? Here is thorough, concise information on who's at risk, how to avoid or prolong avoidance of diabetes and, if diagnosed, how to manage it. Easy to read and informative, Every Woman's Guide to Diabetes is a must-read for women seeking to avoid or deal with diabetes-- and isn't that all of us? --(Donna Zimmer, Consumer Connection)

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Nutrition and Hydration in Hospice Care

Author: Charlette R Gallagher Allred

This scholarly book enables health care professionals to appropriately address hospice patients’and families’concerns about nutrition and hydration. Nutrition and Hydration in Hospice Care is a comprehensive resource that provides hands-on practical information that readers can use in everyday hospice practice. The chapters identify problems, solutions, and ethical issues of nutrition and hydration in hospice care.

The contributing authors provide the way for health care professionals, especially those in nursing, dietary, and pharmacy units, to jointly and effectively manage troublesome symptoms and ethical issues. The following topics are included in the scope of coverage:

• nutrition/hydration needs during end-stage disease
• nursing and dietary roles in identifying nutrition/hydration problems and implementing treatment
• how needs of dying children and adults are different
• legal and ethical dilemmas of withholding or withdrawing nutrition and hydration
• appropriate and inappropriate uses of enteral and parenteral nutrition support during end-stage diseases
• food service considerations in inpatient hospice facilities
• appetite stimulant use in palliative care
  
  Because Nutrition and Hydration in Hospice Care is comprehensive, all members of hospice staffs can find practical information to use each day. The authors cover issues not found in other books for nurses, dietitians, pharmacists, and physicians. They will find the information ready to apply at their work settings.

Booknews

A comprehensive resource that provides practical information that health care professionals can use in everyday hospice practice. The chapters identify problems, solutions, and ethical issues of nutrition and hydration in hospice care. Also published as The Hospice Journal, v.9, nos. 2/3. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	Nursing's Role in the Nutritional Care of the Terminally Ill: Weathering the Storm	1
	Nutrition and Hydration in the Terminally Ill Cancer Patient: The Nurse's Role in Helping Patients and Families Cope	15
	Nutritional Care of the Terminally Ill Adult	37
	Caring for the Dying Child	55
	Appetite Stimulants in Terminal Care: Treatment of Anorexia	73
	Maximizing Foodservice in an Inpatient Hospice Setting	85
	Enteral and Parenteral Nutrition Support of Terminally Ill Patients: Practical and Ethical Perspectives	107
	Legal Decisions Affecting the Limitation of Nutritional Support	131
	Index	149