What If It's Not Alzheimer's?: A Caregiver's Guide to Dementia
Author: Lisa Radin
Although the public most often associates dementia with Alzheimer's disease, the medical profession now distinguishes various types of "other" dementias. What If It's Not Alzheimer's is the first comprehensive guide dealing with frontotemporal dementia (FTD), one of the largest groups of non-Alzheimer's dementias. The contributors are either specialists in their fields or have exceptional hands-on experience with FTD sufferers.
Beginning with a focus on the medical facts, the first part defines and explores FTD as an illness distinct from Alzheimer's disease. Also considered are clinical and medical care issues and practices, as well as such topics as finding a medical team and rehabilitation interventions. The next section on managing care examines the daily care routine, including exercise, socialization, adapting the home environment, and behavioral issues. In the following section on caregiver resources, the contributors identify professional and government-assistance programs along with private resources and legal options.
This newly revised edition follows recent worldwide collaboration in research and provides the most current medical information available, a better understanding of the different classifications of FTD, and more clarity regarding the role of genetics. A completely new chapter 5 enlightens the reader about the various drugs that are now being used with FTD patients and also delves into a number of nonmedical options. The wealth of information offered in these pages will be of great help to healthcare professionals and caregivers of someone suffering from frontotemporal dementia.
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Bikram Yoga: The Guru behind Hot Yoga Shows the Way to Radiant Health and Personal Fulfillment
Author: Bikram Choudhury
Bikram, the "hot yoga" program, has been heating up the yoga world lately, and its founder probably has something to do with it: The outspoken, dramatic, and always controversial Bikram Choudhury has garnered a lot of attention with his version of hatha yoga that some yogis think unorthodox: In his classes, students are stuck in a room heated to at least 105 degrees doing a structured program of 26 asanas with a sergeant–like instructor––and they love it. Bikram Yoga will emulate that same energy.
With his take–no–prisoners philosophy, Bikram describes how the program can reap great medical, physical, and spiritual benefits––the poses work out every part of the body, all of which can help alleviate many common ailments, from asthma to back pain. (Photographs will accompany each pose.) In addition, the book offers the best ways to incorporate eastern philosophy into a western lifestyle and tips on how yoga can cultivate "a union between body and spirit." Simply put, you don't have to meditate passively to reap the benefits of yoga.
Publishers Weekly
Choudhury (Bikram's Beginning Yoga Class) has been called the "Bill Gates of Yoga," but readers may detect a bit of P.T. Barnum in this "hot yoga" showman. Born in India, Choudhury has lived in Hollywood since the early 1970s, when he founded his Yoga College of India. His brash style and personal wealth have drawn fire from the media and American yogis. His somewhat militant, "no pain, no gain" rhetoric and franchised, one-size-fits-all approach may seem contrary to the principles of yoga; Bikram claims his system is the most authentic yoga taught in the U.S. The Bikram Yoga sequence consists of 26 postures, two breathing exercises and brief resting periods performed in a room heated above 100 degrees. This method, Choudhury claims, can cure everything from physical injuries and serious illnesses to troubled relationships and spiritual poverty. Some readers may be put off by frequent name-dropping of famous students (Shirley MacLaine) and those who have received miraculous cures (former President Nixon). (Apr.)
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Choudhury (Bikram's Beginning Yoga Class) is the founder of the Yoga College of India, which is based in Los Angeles and has more than 1200 studios nationwide. His trademarked style of Bikram yoga is known as "hot yoga" because it requires the room to be heated to 105 degrees "to forge bodies and minds of steel." His book is made up of three main parts: his autobiography, along with an explanation of Bikram yoga; the program's two breathing exercises and 26 poses, which are described in detail and demonstrated by the author in clear photographs; and the role yoga plays in bringing happiness and self-realization to people's lives. Choudhury feels his style of yoga is the only correct one and jokingly refers to other styles as "junk yoga." He claims one session of Bikram yoga infuses the body with energy for 16 days of health and can heal such afflictions as asthma, arthritis, and back pain-statements that are hardly substantiated and make Choudhury sound full of himself. Still, he is committed to his yoga program and gives us a humorous and irreverent view of Bikram yoga in the United States, with accessible instruction on its practice. Recommended to all libraries.
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