Only hours after boarding a train, Alice is lying in hospital in a coma after an accident that could have been a suicide attempt. With her life hanging in the balance her family sit by her side where long-buried tensions start to rise to the surface.

This is the classic story of Randle Patick McMurphy, a criminal who feigns insanity and is admitted to a mental hospital where he challenges the autocratic authority of the head nurse.

This is a one-stop handbook to support training and continuing professional development in dementia care.

He visits the town at rare intervals and as briefly as his scanty purchases - cigarettes, biscuits, beer - permit. Soon lack of human contact affects him like a drug and he experiences other modes of being: through a dog's eye or a rat's . . . states of heightened consciousness which build up into a terrifying world of glaring hallucinatory experience. Then Adam addresses a small crowd in the town. His unnerving rhetoric ends in arrest and removal...

Meet the 90-year-old doctor who is still practicing medicine, the stroke victim who learned to move and talk again and the woman with half a brain that rewired itself to work as a whole. All these people had their lives transformed by the remarkable discovery that our brains can repair themselves through the power of positive thinking. In this audiobook, bestselling author, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Norman Doidge reveals the secrets of the cutting-edge...

Fred has had a stroke. Here, he invites readers to learn about what it is like to have a stroke from his perspective, helping them to understand the challenges faced and the ways in which they might have to adapt their lifestyle.

Maddy is sixteen. Deeply curious, wry and vivacious, she's poised at the outset of adulthood. She has loyal friends, a mother with whom she's unusually close, a father she's never met, devoted grandparents, and a crush on a boy named Jack. Maddy also has cancer.Hungry for experience despite living in the shadow of illness, Maddy seeks out her first romantic relationship, ponders philosophical questions, finds solace in music and art, and tracks down...

This title gives the basic information needed to understand what dementia is, how to recognise it, and, most esentially, how to deal with it, including details on: the different types of dementia; risk factors and investigation; the various treatments and supports available; and daily living, diet, exercise, and attitude.

A moving, thought-provoking and surprisingly humorous book which is both a description of a journey to death and a celebration of the act of living. Based on Clare Wise's blog, which she started when she was first diagnosed with cancer in 2013, 'Not That Kind of Love' charts the highs and lows of the last three years of Clare's life. The end result is not a book that fills you with despair and anguish. Clare is an astonishingly dynamic, witty and...