This book is about a young man's struggle with two diseases. Lyme's Disease, one of which he conquered. The other disease is Huntington's Disease, a terminal illness with no cure. This book should... More > encourage you with any struggle or situation that you are currently facing. Mike gives all of the credit to his personal relationship with Jesus Christ.< Less
To those it touches and their carers, Huntington’s Disease presents an ongoing series of challenges to accommodate its changes in thinking. "Hurry up and Wait!" is a set of exercises... More > to simulate the cognitive difficulties faced by those with HD, a collection of tips to accommodate them in your home or care home, a strategy to develop new approaches to solving care problems and commentary on common problems faced by family carers and those they love.< Less
This cookbook is for those seeking foods that may be easier to chew and swallow; including patients with Alzheimers, Parkinson and Huntington's Disease, stroke or anyone having oral surgery.
When a new family moves into the house across the street, Kathryn Price has no clue just how much her life will soon become intertwined with theirs-and what fate has in store for her and Carson, the... More > only child of the gracious Ferris family.
Kathryn soon realizes that she and Carson have a lot in common. Not only will they be starting their freshman year of high school together at the end of the summer, Carson’s mother is dying-something Kathryn has already experienced, years before. Before long, they’re inseparable. For Kathryn and Carson, everything seems nearly perfect-until their happiness is overshadowed by the specter of Huntington’s disease, which threatens to destroy everything they hold dear.< Less
A humorous and intelligent discussion on caring for clients with dementing illness. The author, Heather Vasilopoulos MS OT/L, is a licensed Occupational Therapist and nationally recognized speaker on... More > dementia care. Her thorough grasp of neurology and teaching method makes a difficult topic easy to understand.< Less
A humorous and intelligent discussion on caring for clients with dementing illness. The author, Heather Vasilopoulos MS OT/L, is a licensed Occupational Therapist and nationally recognized speaker on... More > dementia care. Her thorough grasp of neurology and teaching method makes a difficult topic easy to understand.< Less
A collection of poetry written by the late Thomas Buffaloe Jr prior to a fourteen year battle with Huntington's Diesease. All proceeds from book sales will be donated to the Huntington's Disease... More > Society of America to help further research and find a cure for this devastating disease. www.hdsa.org< Less
O livro foi traduzido e revisto para Português por Filipa Júlio, para a Associação Portuguesa de DH. A Associação pretende partilhar este livro com as... More > famílias de outros países de Língua Portuguesa. A tradução da Filipa está agora disponível para todo o mundo, com o custo da impressão e envio do livro. Nem a Associação, nem o autor, nem a tradutora têm qualquer lucro com a sua venda. A Doença de Huntington apresenta uma série constante de desafios, quer aos que por ela são afectados, quer aos que deles cuidam, para integrar as alterações de pensamento que provoca, O livro é um conjunto de exercícios que simulam as dificuldades cognitivas que os doentes de Huntington enfrentam, uma compilação de dicas para integrar essas dificuldades em sua casa ou na unidade clínica residencial, uma estratégia para desenvolver novas abordagens de resolução dos problemas de prestação de cuidados e um comentário acerca dos problemas frequentes com que os cuidadores familiares e os seus entes queridos se deparam.< Less
This story follows five workers of the McDermott Hotel in Morningside Heights as they prepare for a full operation review they must pass to maintain their four star rating. There’s the hotels... More > manager, Sawyer, a woman plagued with the knowledge she will inherit Huntington's disease, finally attempts to find a friend in a co-worker, taking her to points she never thought she’d reach. With the deadline hanging over her head she will struggle with her anxiety while attempting to avoid her small town newbie assistant, Marilyn.
Claude, a classically trained French chef and the hotel’s resident drug dealer, finally gets the opportunity to showcase his talents after befriending the hotel manager, but it may be too exotic for owner, Bert McCracken’s, tastes. There’s Will, once an Internet video game sensation turned housekeeper, who craves the attention a young receptionist, Caitlin. What Will doesn’t know is that Caitlin’s psychopathic, recently paroled ex-boyfriend is back and is angry.< Less
Biologist Marti Jamison and her physicist husband Richard have left Columbia University to come to the small Texas campus of Plainview University where Marti will teach evolutionary biology and... More > Richard will pursue research in the physics of Virtual Reality, at the lab constructed under his direction, the Virtual CAVE. Marti’s life collapses when she is diagnosed with Huntington's disease, a genetically transmitted disease that kills the cells in her brain. In despair, atheist Marti turns to religion, while Richard frantically researches the science of a gene therapy cure. Their teenage daughter Jesse, however, has a different idea – enlisting the help of The Natural God... This novel explores the philosophy of science, religions, and the ultimate nature of reality, as seen through the eyes of its three characters.< Less
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