Kathleen Costello, Rosalind Kalb, Barbara S. Giesser

Navigating Life with Multiple Sclerosis (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The new second edition of Navigating Life with Multiple Sclerosis is a practical guide for meeting the challenges of this life-long, unpredictable disease.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780197749319
• Artikelnr.: 72735879

Autorenporträt

Kathleen Costello, ANP-BC, MSCN is the Chief Operating Officer for Can Do Multiple Sclerosis, an organization dedicated to delivering health and wellness education for families living with MS. She is also adjunct faculty in the Division of Neuroimmunology and Neuroinfectious Diseases at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. Costello earned both her Bachelor of Science in Nursing and Master of Science degrees at the University of Maryland. She is a Board-certified Adult Nurse Practitioner and is also certified as an MS nurse. She specialized in MS care for more than 25 years in academic comprehensive care centers as a nurse and as a nurse practitioner at the University of Maryland and John Hopkins University MS Centers. She is a past president of the International Organization of MS Nurses and previously chaired the MS Specialist Certification Committee for the Consortium of MS Centers. She has worked with the Multiple Sclerosis International Federation on their successful efforts to add MS medications to the World Health Organization essential medicines list and has written and lectured extensively on MS and MS care. Rosalind Kalb, PhD, is the Senior Programs Consultant for Can Do Multiple Sclerosis. She is a clinical psychologist, providing MS care and education for over 40 years. After receiving her doctorate from Fordham University in New York, she provided mental health services and cognitive remediation at the Medical Rehabilitation Research and Training Center for MS at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York and later at the MS Comprehensive Care Center in White Plains, NY. Dr. Kalb joined the National MS Society in 2000, creating online resources and educational materials for individuals and families living with MS and healthcare professionals until 2017. Barbara S. Giesser, MD, FAAN, FANA, is Professor Emeritus of Clinical Neurology at the David Geffan UCLA School of Medicine and currently leads the MS program at Pacific Neuroscience Institute in Santa Monica, CA. She is an internationally recognized clinician and award-winning educator who has specialized in the care of persons with Multiple Sclerosis for over 40 years. Dr. Giesser received her BS from the University of Miami, her MS from the University of Texas School of Biomedical Sciences in Houston, and her MD from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. She completed her neurology residency at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York and did fellowship training in MS there at the Medical Rehabilitation Research and Training Center for MS. She was faculty at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine from 1983 until 1991 and was subsequently faculty at the University of Arizona Health Science Center before joining UCLA in 2002.

Inhaltsangabe

* About the Brain and Life® Books Series
* Section 1 MS Overview
* Chapter 1 What is MS?
* Chapter 2 Diagnosing MS
* Chapter 3 Comprehensive Care Over the Lifetime
* Section 2 Symptoms of MS
* Chapter 4 Multiple Sclerosis Related Fatigue
* Chapter 5 Mobility Symptoms
* Chapter 6 Sensory Symptoms
* Chapter 7 Mood and Cognition
* Chapter 8 Bladder and Bowel
* Section 3 Health and Wellness
* Chapter 9 Your Overall Health and Wellness
* Chapter 10 Support Partners, Care Partners, Carers, Caregivers - This
is about You
* Chapter 11 Exercise and Physical Activity
* Chapter 12 Diet and Nutrition
* Chapter 13 Relationships and Communication
* Chapter 14 Intimacy and Sexuality
* Chapter 15 Reproductive Issues
* Chapter 16 Planning for the Future While Finding Meaning in the
Present
* Appendix 1: Disease-Modifying Therapies
* Appendix 2: Additional Resources
* Glossary
* About the Authors
* About Brain and Life® and the American Academy of Neurology
* Index