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  • 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$ 27.78 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$ 57.43 SGD

  • Understanding Behaviour in Dementia that Challenges, Second Edition

    A Guide to Assessment and Treatment

    The innovative Newcastle Challenging Behaviour Model for dementia care has recently been updated, leading to new advances in the field. This revised second edition guide to assessment and treatment of behaviours that challenge associated with dementia includes these latest developments along with new sections on what have traditionally been considered controversial topics.The new chapters cover ... Read more

    S$ 47.73 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$ 38.47 SGD

  • The Exhaustion Breakthrough

    Unmask the Hidden Reasons You're Tired and Beat Fatigue for Good

    It's become the norm to complain that we're always tired. In Dr. Holly Phi llips' Exhaustion Solution, Dr. Holly aims to end this accepted state of exhaustion and send a message to readers that they do nothave to be drained of energy just because they have a demanding job, a family, or an active social life—or allthree. She also explains the insidious nature of fatigue, educating readers on the ... Read more

    S$ 8.71 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$ 30.84 SGD

  • Four Umbrellas

    A Couple's Journey Into Young-Onset Alzheimer's

    A writing couple searches for answers when Alzheimer's causes one of them to lose the place where stories come from — memory.At the age of fifty-three, Tony walks away from a life of journalism and into an unknown future. June is forty-eight, a writer and teacher, and over the following decade watches as her husband changes — in interests, goals, and behaviour — until Tony has a fall, ending the ... Read more

    S$ 9.69 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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"An important and timely book. Highly recommended."—Dr. Mark HymanIn The Diabetes Code, world-renowned nephrologist and metabolic health expert Dr. Jason Fung reveals a bold, science-backed approach to preventing and reversing type 2 diabetes—without relying solely on medications, extreme calorie restriction, or complica... ... Read more

    S$ 19.83 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$ 18.74 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$ 28.77 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$ 18.74 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$ 17.43 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

    S$ 9.56 SGD

  • You Can Fix Your Brain

    Just 1 Hour a Week to the Best Memory, Productivity, and Sleep You've Ever Had

    by Tom O'Bryan ...
    For anyone worried about any type of brain ailment, ranging from the chronic conditions to simple brain fog and fatigue, this essential guide covers the full spectrum of prevention to treatment.We've all experienced brain fog—misplaced keys, forgotten facts, a general feeling that you're just feeling off today. And many of us will experience that "fog" manifesting as something more permanent ... Read more

    S$ 12.63 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$ 17.54 SGD

  • Time Shelter

    Winner of the International Booker Prize 2023

    Translated by Angela Rodel ...
    A GUARDIAN AND FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR'The most exquisite kind of literature... I've put it on a special shelf in my library that I reserve for books that demand to be revisited every now and then. 'OLGA TOKARCZUK, author of Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead'Could not be more timely... It's funny and absurd, but it's also frightening, because even as Gospodinov plays with the ... Read more

    S$ 16.45 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

  • I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest with You

    The Instant No.1 Sunday Times Bestseller from the Nation's Favourite Comedian

    by Miranda Hart ...
    Packed with hard-won wisdoms and gentle truths, this is Miranda’s honest exploration of the lessons she has learned on her journey from illness to recovery'A bombshell, moving, inspirational. Hart passes on the tips that helped her emerge from psychological as much as physical doldrums. No comedian, female or male, has been so taken to the nation’s bosom since Victoria Wood' Independent ... Read more

    S$ 16.12 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

  • 從零開始舌診入門全圖解:舌診圖解 × 體質分析 × 日常保養 教你看懂舌象表現,辨識體質,對症調理

    by 武建設 ...
    Series Book 83 - 健康百科
    中醫「望、聞、問、切」之首,就是舌診別看一片小小的舌頭,它能反映體內五臟六腑的健康狀況學會觀察舌象,就能第一時間掌握身體的毛病正常的舌頭應呈淡紅色、大小適中、薄白苔。伸出舌頭、照照鏡子,如果你看到這些舌象——◆**舌色偏淡白:多為氣血兩虛◆舌面光滑如鏡:可能有胃痛毛病◆舌體胖大:表示體內有痰溼,容易疲勞、沒困倦◆舌邊有明顯齒痕:說明脾虛肝鬱,女性常伴有月經不調的問題◆舌面有不規則的裂溝紋:**表示體內有熱,常有口腔潰瘍【認識舌診】早在三千多年前的殷商時期,就已有關於舌部疾病的記載。隨著歷代醫家的研究,在多部重要醫書中... ... Read more

    S$ 13.81 SGD

  • The Cancer Code

    A Revolutionary New Understanding of a Medical Mystery

    Series Book 3 - The Wellness Code
    Author of the international bestsellers The Diabetes Code and The Obesity Code Dr. Jason Fung returns with an eye-opening biography of cancer in which he offers a radical new paradigm for understanding cancer—and issues a call to action for reducing risk moving forward.Our understanding of cancer is slowly undergoing a revolution, allowing for the development of more effective treatments. For the ... Read more

    S$ 23.75 SGD

  • Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes

    The moving and joyously funny must-read official biography of one of our finest storytellers

    by Rob Wilkins ...
    A deeply moving and personal portrait of the extraordinary life of Sir Terry Pratchett, written with unparalleled insight and filled with funny anecdotes, this is the only official biography of one of our finest authors.WINNER OF THE 2023 LOCUS AWARD FOR NON-FICTIONWINNER OF THE BRITISH SCIENCE FICTION ASSOCIATION AWARD FOR BEST NON-FICTIONFINALIST FOR THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST RELATED ... Read more

    S$ 16.12 SGD