Swallow Safely: How Swallowing Problems Threaten the Elderly and Others. A Caregiver's Guide to Recognition, Treatment, and Prevention
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| Rating | : | 4.76 (642 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B003PDN65K |
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| Number of Pages | : | 594 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-08-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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Roya Sayadi, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, is a graduate of the Iran University of Medical Sciences in Tehran. He is the author of Pediatrics, Neurology, and Psychiatry: Common Ground (with N. Sayadi s husband, is a graduate of Princeton University and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She has taught speech-lan
The book is written primarily for caregivers of elderly persons and others with medical and neurologic problems such as stroke, Parkinson disease, multiple sclerosis, cancer, and Alzheimer disease that are commonly associated with swallowing problems. They, too, take tens of thousands of lives every year through choking, pneumonia, and malnutrition. SWALLOW SAFELY seeks to erase this knowledge gap. Appendices include a Letter For Your Doctor and Suggestions For Safe Swallowing.. Relatively few people, however, realize
The authors include many tips for careful eating that may help restore safety and pleasure to mealtimes. Especially valuable for families and caregivers of elders with dementia, who often develop swallowing problems. --Jacqueline Marcell, Author of Elder Rage, Host of Radio Show Coping with Caregiving. This book tells you how to keep a swallowing problem from becoming fatal. Patients or caregivers might not realize that a runny nose during meals, coughing, or excessively slow swallowing can indicate a potentially life-threatening problem with swallowing. More than ten individual body parts are involved in swallowing, and muscular weakness or poor coordination during its four phases--preparatory, oral, pha
"I would have not stuffed my father's mouth full of food had Swallow Safely been available" according to Brenda Avadian. Toward the end of my father's life, he had difficulty chewing food and eventually swallowing. I didn't know it then. One morning, while feeding him breakfast at the nursing home, I stuffed more and more food in his mouth, thinking this might stimulate him to swallow.Upon seeing his stuffed cheeks, the aide who usually helped him eat exclaimed, "Brenda what are you doing?"Embarrassed I confessed, "He won't eat!"W. well-written and easy to read I am finishing up my graduate program in speech-langauge pathology and wanted a resource I could refer my patient's families to. This is a great a book, very easy to read (I read it in under 2 hours). As a future speech pathologist I found it extremely helpful to have the list of medications that may impact swallowing, as this is something we do not typically get directly instructed on in our graduate programs.. How to recognize, treat and prevent life-threatening swallowing problems Rick Johnson This husband/wife physician team brings to light the dangers of swallowing that can affect those dealing with Stroke, Parkinson Disease, Multiple Sclerosis, Alzheimer Disease, ALS, Cancer, COPD, Heart Disease and Head Injury. In clear layman's language they explain the signs and techniques for dealing with this all too often ignored danger. This potentially life-saving book on how to keep a swallowing problem fr