Product Description: The book is unique in two distinct ways. First, it focuses on improving quality of life in contrast to other books that have tended to focus more on its conceptualization and assessment. Second, it deals with improving quality of life in a variety of disabled populations, not just one, and includes chapters on people with chronic mental or physical conditions and those without disabilities at all (i...read more

Product Description: Does life have real meaning? Is it worth living? How can one make sense of suffering, illness, and death? Through the ages, philosophers, clergy, and laypeople alike have grappled with such existential concerns. Some have taken the position that deep questions about meaning are unanswerable, that ideally one should take life as it comes...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Book by Fry, Prem S.

Product Description: This book presents an intervention program of memory enhancement for o lder adults that integrates two approaches: cognitive restructuring an d traditional memory training. The program is organized in a series of sessions with a built-in progression...read more

Product Description: The past few years have witnessed widespread acceptance of the notion that few elderly individuals are willing to stand by silently in the process of growing, and to relinquish whatever actual controls, autonomy or control beliefs they had in the past...read more

Product Description: Book by Fry, Prem S.