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  • When We Look at Each Other

    by Kim Younglong ...
    Translated by Gene Png ...
    An ode to the realities of aging, this is an honest but tender look at the challenges of caring for a relative with dementia, of how our role within the family unit evolves, and a celebration of spending precious time with those we love.Written in warm and reflective prose, it explores the author's relationship with her mother and 94-year-old grandmother and their life in South Korea, with themes ... Read more

    S$ 23.97 SGD

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  • In Pursuit of Memory

    The Fight Against Alzheimer's

    For readers of Atul Gawande, Siddhartha Mukherjee, and Henry Marsh, a riveting, gorgeously written biography of one of history's most fascinating and confounding diseases -- Alzheimer's -- from its discovery more than 100 years ago to today's race towards a cure.Alzheimer's is the great global epidemic of our time, affecting millions worldwide -- there are more than 5 million people diagnosed in ... Read more

    S$ 17.97 SGD

  • Power Foods for the Brain

    An Effective 3-Step Plan to Protect Your Mind and Strengthen Your Memory

    Strengthen your memory with New York Times bestselling author Dr. Neal Barnard’s simple 3-step plan to protecting your brain with your diet.Could your breakfast or lunch be harming your memory?Are you missing out on the foods that could prevent Alzheimer's disease?Everyone knows good nutrition supports your overall health, but few realize that certain foods-power foods-can protect your brain and ... Read more

    S$ 13.51 SGD

  • The Simplicity of Dementia

    A Guide for Family and Carers

    by Huub Buijssen ...
    This book offers an accessible and sympathetic introduction for relatives, carers and professionals looking after or training to work with people with dementia. Drawing on the two `laws of dementia', the author explains the causes of communication problems, mood disturbances and `deviant' behaviours, with particular emphasis on how these are experienced by dementia sufferers themselves. Case ... Read more

    S$ 27.68 SGD

  • The Doctor and the Soul

    From Psychotherapy to Logotherapy

    Translated by Clara Winston, Richard Winston ...
    Even in the degradation and misery of Dachau concentration camp, Viktor Frankl retained the belief that the most important freedom of all is the freedom to determine one's own spiritual well-being. He wrote the international bestseller Man's Search for Meaning as a result of that experience, while in The Doctor and the Soul, Dr Frankl revolutionised psychotherapy with his theory of Logotherapy ... Read more

    S$ 14.81 SGD

  • Faster Cures

    Accelerating the Future of Health

    Partly a memoir and partly a recent history of medicine, the definitive account of Michael Milken’s lifetime work to accelerate medicine's evolution from a dark past to a bright future.What if cleaning early-stage cancers from your body could become as routine as going to the dentist to clean your teeth, or if a single vaccine could protect you against multiple viruses, or if gene editing could ... Read more

    S$ 27.89 SGD

  • Preserving Brain Health in a Toxic Age

    New Insights from Neuroscience, Integrative Medicine, and Public Health

    Learn how to reduce the impact of environmental toxins on brain development, functioning, and health.The human brain is a marvelously complex organ that has evolved great new capabilities over the past 250,000 years. During most of that period, daily life was vastly different from our lives today. Exercise was not optional - one literally had to run for one’s life, livelihood, and sustenance. The ... Read more

    S$ 54.82 SGD

  • Ten Thousand Joys & Ten Thousand Sorrows

    A Couple's Journey Through Alzheimer's

    "Ten Thousand Sorrows & Ten Thousand Joys offers a vision of lives well-led, and of love in the thick of crisis and loss. Beyond inspiring."-Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence"This beautiful book is unlike any other personal account of living with Alzheimer's disease that I have ever read . . . it offers patients and families practical insights into how they can live their lives more ... Read more

    S$ 14.38 SGD

  • Communication Skills for Effective Dementia Care

    A Practical Guide to Communication and Interaction Training (CAIT)

    Effective communication is critical for everyone, and this insightful book teaches the skills needed by healthcare staff in their day-to-day interactions with people with dementia and their families. Often when people with dementia exhibit behaviour that challenges, it is an indication that their needs are not being met. The authors illustrate the key aspects of communication for the development ... Read more

    S$ 38.36 SGD

  • The Better Brain Solution

    How to Start Now--at Any Age--to Reverse and Prevent Insulin Resistance of the Brain, Sharpen Cognitive Function, and Avoid Memory Loss

    In this step-by-step guide to enhancing cognitive function and fighting—and even reversing—memory loss, Dr. Steven Masley (bestselling author of The 30-Day Heart Tune-Up) lays out a four-pillar diet-and-lifestyle approach to improving brain health, focusing on food, nutrients, exercise, and stress management.Based on more than a decade of clinical research, The Better Brain Solution provides the ... Read more

    S$ 14.38 SGD

  • Parkinson's Treatment Tamil Edition: 10 Secrets to a Happier Life

    "There isn't any joking with Dr. Okun about the 10 Secrets for a Happier Life in Parkinson's disease. This book is a critical resource for Parkinson's disease patients and families from around the world who speak different languages, but suffer from very similar and often disabling symptoms." –Muhammad AliThe most humbling experience of my life has been the time I have spent with families, and ... Read more

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  • Comforting Touch in Dementia and End of Life Care

    Take My Hand

    *Highly Commended in the Popular Medicine category at the 2012 British Medical Association Book Awards*The simple sensation of touching someone's hand can have a powerful therapeutic effect. Hand massage is a positive and meaningful way of reaching out and providing comfort to those who are elderly, ill or nearing the end of life, and it can be particularly effective for people with dementia who ... Read more

    S$ 30.73 SGD

  • The Immunotype Breakthrough

    Your Personalized Plan to Balance Your Immune System, Optimize Health, and Build Lifelong Resilience

    A respected immunologist, allergist, and functional medicine doctor breaks down the latest science on immunity, offering “the most important guide available” (Mark Hyman, MD) to balancing your system for optimal health and longevity.To most of us, the immune system is seemingly unknowable—it's an invisible, complex network of cells, receptors, and messengers, and there's no standard way to see if ... Read more

    S$ 17.87 SGD

  • The Diabetes Code

    Prevent and Reverse Type 2 Diabetes Naturally

    Series Book 3 - Dr. Jason Fung Code
    FROM NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR DR. JASON FUNG—the physician widely credited with popularizing intermittent fasting for weight loss—comes the groundbreaking, science-backed guide to preventing and reversing type 2 diabetes naturally."An important and timely book. Highly recommended."—Dr. Mark HymanIn The Diabetes Code, world-renowned nephrologist and metabolic health expert Dr. Jason Fung< ... Read more

    S$ 20.05 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Eat to Beat Disease

    The New Science of How Your Body Can Heal Itself

    Eat your way to better health with this New York Times bestseller on food's ability to help the body heal itself from cancer, dementia, and dozens of other avoidable diseases.Forget everything you think you know about your body and food, and discover the new science of how the body heals itself. Learn how to identify the strategies and dosages for using food to transform your resilience and health ... Read more

    S$ 18.96 SGD

  • Remember

    The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting

    by Lisa Genova ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A fascinating exploration of the intricacies of how we remember, why we forget, and what we can do to protect our memories, from the Harvard-trained neuroscientist and bestselling author of Still Alice.“Using her expertise as a neuroscientist and her gifts as a storyteller, Lisa Genova explains the nuances of human memory”—Steven Pinker, Johnstone Professor of ... Read more

    S$ 13.29 SGD

  • Keep Sharp

    Build a Better Brain at Any Age - As Seen in The Daily Mail

    An exciting new science-driven guide to protecting your mind from decline.'Fascinating' Daily MailThroughout our lives, we are always looking for ways to keep our mind sharp and effortlessly productive. In this book, globetrotting neurosurgeon Dr Sanjay Gupta offers insights from top scientists all over the world, whose cutting edge research can help you heighten and protect brain function and ... Read more

    S$ 18.96 SGD

  • Strength in Motion

    The Next Chapter of Stroke

    by Terence Ang ...
    Strength in Motion: The Next Chapter of Stroke is Terence Ang's third book, following A Cry in the Dark and Emerging from the Dark.Strength in Motion: The Next Chapter of Stroke offers a profound look at one man's incredible journey of triumph over adversity, shedding light on the physical, emotional, and psychological hurdles that often characterise the aftermath of a stroke.From someone gripped ... Read more

    S$ 29.20 SGD

  • The How Not to Die Cookbook

    Over 100 Recipes to Help Prevent and Reverse Disease

    From the author of the global bestseller How Not To Die comes The How Not To Die Cookbook – a lavish, beautifully illustrated collection of delicious recipes based on the groundbreaking nutritional science of the original book.Dr Michael Greger, founder of the wildly popular website NutritionFacts, takes his comprehensive, lifesaving science into the kitchen. Why suffer from disease and ill health ... Read more

    S$ 24.62 SGD

  • Breakfast is a Dangerous Meal

    Why You Should Ditch Your Morning Meal For Health and Wellbeing

    Breakfast may be the most important meal of the day, but only if we skip it.Since Victorian times, we have been told to breakfast like kings and dine like paupers. In the wake of his own type 2 diabetes diagnosis, Professor Terence Kealey was given the same advice. He soon noticed that his glucose levels were unusually high after eating first thing in the morning. But if he continued to fast until ... Read more

    S$ 11.43 SGD

  • 死亡癱瘓一切的知識──臨終前的靈性照護

    by 張明志 ...
    幻聽、幻覺、發燒、做惡夢、自言自語,看見地獄、黑衣人、已逝親人──血液腫瘤科主任逾四十年的臨床觀察,現代醫學難以解釋的「靈性困擾」,陪伴瀕死親人走過生死難關。▍死亡是身為人的最後考驗,一場漫漫人生的總清算。▍此時需要的是信仰、是靈性對話,與安住彼此身心的陪伴……有些人一路走得自在安穩,有些人愈到生命末期,愈是焦慮惶恐。現代醫學難解的心靈困境:醫者、患者與家人如何面對即將迎來終點的生命,給予顧全「身、心、靈」的照護?科學有其盡頭,醫學也非萬能。曾任馬偕醫院血液腫瘤科主任十五年的張明志醫師,觀察到許多癌末病人所經歷的症狀,皆屬現代醫學無法解釋的「靈性困擾」。諸如無名發燒、吼叫、看見黑衣人、聽見怪聲、夢見自己死亡等,許多容易發生在臨終病人身上的譫妄現象,在先進的影像檢查中,結果往往顯示一切正常;既無法以特定病理解釋,也難透過精神科藥物及治療手段解決,因而時常被誤判、忽視。病患的苦痛和恐懼真實存在 ... Read more

    Was S$ 9.62 SGD Now S$ 8.16 SGD

  • I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest with You

    The Celebrity Traitors Star Reveals the Lessons She’s Learned in Her Story to Joy

    by Miranda Hart ...
    THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERConnection and laughter and joy are everything. To meet someone and just play and laugh – it’s all us humans need. I’ve had times in my life when I haven’t had that, through illness, and finding it again has brought back my silly, sensitive soul.‘One of the most inspiring and comforting books I’ve ever read’ *****‘The kindness and compassion in this book will ... Read more

    S$ 16.12 SGD

  • Then Again

    NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYJanet Maslin, The New York Times • People • VogueONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARFinancial Times • Chicago Sun-Times •The Independent • Bookreporter •The Sunday Business PostMom loved adages, quotes, slogans. There were always little reminders pasted on the kitchen wall. For example, the word THI... ... Read more

    S$ 14.38 SGD

  • The Mind-Gut Connection

    How the Hidden Conversation Within Our Bodies Impacts Our Mood, Our Choices, and Our Overall Health

    by Emeran Mayer ...
    Cutting-edge neuroscience combines with the latest discoveries on the human microbiome to inform this practical guide to gut health that proves once and for all the inextricable, biological link between mind and body.We have all experienced the connection between our mind and our gut—the decision we made because it “felt right;” the butterflies in our stomach before a big meeting; the anxious ... Read more

    S$ 17.87 SGD