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Caring for Loved Ones at Home: An Illustrated, Easy-to-Follow Guide to Short
or Long-Term Care
Harry van Bommel
4th revised edition, 160 pages, 5 x 8inches, ISBN 1-55307-016-X, $15 ebook, $20 paperback
Bestseller! Over 120,000 copies of essential caregiver handbook have been sold since it was first published in 1992. A practical guide to help family members take care of someone who is ill at home.
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Choosing to Be Happier...More Often
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Dying for Care: Hospice Care or Euthanasia
Harry van Bommel
112 pages, 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 inches, ISBN 1-55307-023-2, $15 ebook
An examination and analysis of where palliative care is and where it should be in the future plus an analysis of the consequences of legalizing euthanasia and assisted suicide. Updated version, includes information on Senate Report on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide. [More...]
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Event Planning Guide: Essential Handbook of Meeting, Conference & Workshop Success for Charity & Non-for-Profit Organizations
Harry van Bommel
72 pages, 8-1/2 x 11 inches, ISBN 1-55307-020-8, $15 ebook, $20 paperback
Whether your event is a simple meeting of ten people or a conference of 500 attendees, the basics of event planning remain the same. This no-nonsense guide provides all the resources you need to prepare for, and conduct, a successful meeting, conference or workshop - including detailed, practical information on choosing a speaker and a venue, budgets, day of the event and post-event activities, and promotion and publicity. An easy-to-use reference. [More...]
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Family Hospice Care: Pre-Planing and Care Guide
Harry van Bommel
20th Anniversay Edition, 320 pages, 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 inches, ISBN 1-55307-021-6, $25 ebook, $30 paperback
Bestseller! Over 100 thousand copies of this comprehensive caregiver resource have been sold since it was first published in 1986. Covers the physical, emotional, spiritual and information needs of patients, families, other care providers, volunteers and students. [More...]
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Dorothy Ley and Harry van Bommel
176 pages, 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 inches, ISBN 1-55307-022-4, $15 ebook, $20 paperback
The spiritual heart of hospice as well as other aspects of the hospice philosophy of care are cronicled. Includes a biographical sketch of Dr. Dorothy Ley, a Canadian and international pioneer of the hospice care movement, with photographs. The Heart of Hospice provides a useful and inspirational educational tool for palliative care providers primarily but also for everyone interested in palliative care. The insights of one of the pioneers in Canada are practical, direct, humorous, colorful and inspirational. She was a very human role model to physicians, other health care providers, family members and now to patients. [More...]
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How to Learn Anything: Shortcuts for College and University Students
192 pages, 5 x 8 inches, ISBN 1-55307-025-9, $20 ebook, $25 paperback
Simple, self-study materials with memory aids to learn how to take notes, speed read, study, research and write papers, improve your memory, how to help others learn and self-directed learning. This book was also designed to become your major source of information and learning skills forever. Learning skills are not new. The basic skills have always been the same. However, they have been largely untaught as learning was seen as natural. Learning that interests us is natural. Learning that is required to succeed at school or at work is not always interesting. Therefore, we need helpful tricks of the learning trade to learn things quickly, remember them for a longer time, and use what we have learned as soon as possible.[More...]
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Harry van Bommel
64 pages, 5 x 8 inches, ISBN 1-55307-019-4, $12 ebook, $15 paperback
Information is power. No where is this more true than in protecting yourself and your family. Whether you are walking home at night from a restaurant with your spouse, in a hockey arena when fans get unruly or at home alone when someone tries to get into your house, there are practical things you can do. You will know what to do when you think about potential situations, talk about alternatives with your family and friends, plan out what you will do and practice specific techniques. Will you panic? Just as a driver automatically slams on the brakes when a child runs in front of a car, you will react automatically in attack situations when you have practiced simple techniques than anyone can learn. [More...]
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How to M
anage Your Records: Financial, Legal and Medical
80 pages, 5 x 8 inches, ISBN 1-55307-026-7, $15 ebook, $20 paperback
The forms in this short book are simple and specific. It will help you get control over all of your financial, legal and health care information. It takes a bit of time but most of it only has to be done once. There will be some changes over the years but, on the whole, the information does not change that often. For example, you only have to write in your childhood illness once! [More...]
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How to Teach 
Others
104 pages, 5 x 8 inches, ISBN 1-55307-018-6, $15 ebook, $20 paperback
For experienced and novice teachers, this book provides specific, immediately useful information on how to help others acquire the knowledge and skills they need. A practical work rather than an academic or theoretical one, this book applies to teachers, educators, facilitators, instructors and content providers. Based on over 35 years of teaching infants to post-graduates and novice employees to senior mangers, this book will describe in detail, ways to provide a learning environment and framework that allows learners to develop professionally and personally in memorable, enjoyable and energizing ways. [More...]
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Janet Ewart FitzGerald with Harry van Bommel
240 pages with photographs and illustrations and extensive Index, 6 x 9 inches, ISBN 1-55307-015-1, $20 ebook, $25 paperback
Biography written by Ewart's great, great granddaughter, working with Harry van Bommel. Ewart built such famous Toronto and London landmarks as their Courthouses and Jails, and Toronto's Osgoode Hall, the original Catholic and Presbyterian churches, Toronto General Hospital, and Upper Canada College. [More...]
John Macdonald: Pious Merchant, Philanthropist and Politician
Pious Merchant, Philanthropist and Politician
80 pages, 6 x 9 inches, ISBN 1-55307-027-5, $20 ebook
The life of Senator John Macdonald (1824-1890) is a rags-to-riches history of a self-made man. To the people who met him in passing, he may have appeared as a very wealthy, self-centred man but, in fact, his Victorian exterior covered up his underlying reason for living - his Methodist beliefs. He was Toronto's most successful wholesaler, an active church promoter, a politician during the formation of our Dominion, organizer and financial supporter of the YMCA, Toronto General Hospital and Victoria College, a poet and a well-travelled, worldly gentleman. He was the only Liberal appointed to the Senate by Canada's first Prime Minister, Sir John A. Macdonald. [More...]
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No Place Like Ho
me: Home Modifications and Renovations for People with Disabilities or other Long-Term Care Needs
128 pages, 8-1/2 x 11 inches, ISBN 1-55307-011-9, $15 ebook. $20 paperback
Designed to give specific information on how family, friends, neighbors and volunteers can come together to provide basic or extensive home renovations to make a home more accessible. The book looks at specific renovation projects and what materials, construction and labor is needed. Whether it is adding an elevator to a home, making the home wheelchair accessible, or simply adding grab bars in bathrooms or lowering kitchen counters in the kitchen, the book helps you take control of the project from the planning stage to successful completion. Many people with disabilities or long-term care needs do not know what kind of modifications or renovations their homes need, nor how to get the work done. They suffer needlessly because they lack practical and useful information, which often means they do without these changes to their home at a cost to their safety and comfort. [More...]
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252 pages, 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 inches, ISBN 1-55307-005-4, $20 ebook, $25 paperback
This book is about methods to secure some financial comfort, or even independence, for (a) a financially dependent loved one or (b) a not-for-profit/charitable organization. This guide is really two books in one. One part deals specifically with establishing trust funds for financially dependent loved ones. The second part looks at creating endowment funds to supplement the revenues of charitable and not-for-profit organizations. Where the two books join is in the discussion of how to creatively fund raise for either fund and how to meet the specific needs of each audience. Using extensive appendices of forms to facilitate the process, this book is a guide to asking the appropriate, qualified professionals the right questions to fit your specific situation. [More...]
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Our Presence Has Roots: The Ongoing Story of Deohaeko Support Network
Janet Klees
366 pages, 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 inches, ISBN 1-55307-017-8, $20 ebook, $25 paperback
The story continues of the Deohaeko experiment. An essential read for anyone striving to be with people who otherwise would be marginalized - a guide to the next seven years of this family group's journey toward building community where everyone belongs. This book includes the importance of foundational principles, details of creating home for people, understanding the paid support piece, and detailed strategies toward building the relationships that are key to safe and full lives. [More...]
A Personal Hospice Journal of Beliefs, Assumptions and Behaviors
128 pages, 8-1/2 x 11 inches, ISBN 1-55307-028-3, $15 ebook, $20 paperback
A book that helps you record your thoughts on over 160 topics relating to hospice and home care. [More...]
A Personal Journal of Beliefs, Assumptions and Behaviors
185 pages, 8-1/2 x 11 inches, ISBN 1-55307-028-3, $15 ebook, $20 paperback
A book to record one's thoughts on over 150 topics such as love, gratitude, poverty, hatred, fear, courage and honour or to use as a personal journal. [More...]
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Practical Leadership: The 9 Practical Skills Needed by Haelth Professionals
to Thrive in the 21st Century
Harry van Bommel, Beverley Powell-Vinden, Elizabeth Latimer, Michèle Chaban and Larry Lewis
470 pages, 6 x 9 inches, ISBN 1-55307-004-6, $25 ebook, $35 paperback
Covers the soft skills needed by care providers in health care to achieve personal success, work
better together and respond to the ever-changing health care system.Using the acronym "PRINCIPAL,
"this book highlights the most important skills needed for co-operation amongst care providers and
with their patients: Principled Leadership; Resolving Conflicts; Awareness;
Communication; Team Skills; Impassioned Supervision; Change Management;
Action-Oriented Planning; Life-Long Skills. [More...]
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Selected Journals on Grieving
King's College 16th International Conference on Death and Bereavement
Edited by Harry van Bommel
84 pages, 6 x 9 inches, ISBN 1-55307-024-0, $15 ebook
Professional and volunteer grief therapists share their personal and professional stories about grief and bereavement during this 3-day conference at King's College, London, Ontario. The stories can be used in your own practice, newsletters and presentations as illustrations of how others deal with their grief. [More...]
Selected 
Journals of Successful Hospice Palliative Care from the 16th International Congress on Care of the Terminally Ill
Montreal, Canada
Edited by Harry van Bommel
76 pages, 6 x 9 inches, ISBN 1-55307-032-1, $15 paperback, $12 ebook
Professional and volunteer hospice palliative care providers share their personal and professional stories during this 5-day biennial conference in Montreal Canada. Learn from such leaders in the field as Dr. Balfour Mount, Dr. Michéle Chaban, and their colleagues in medicine, nursing, social work, spiritual leaders, allied professionals, patients and families. The stories can be used as a gift to your colleagues or clients and in your own practice, newsletters, teaching and presentations as illustrations of excellent care. [More...]
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ISBN 1-55307-010-0, $20O
Original songs to comfort those dealing with loss - whether through death, job loss or broken relationships. The songs deal with loss and hope, fear overcome by love, and faith joined with gratitude. They are meant to remind us of what we have when we may feel we have little. [More...]
We Come Bearing Gifts: The Story of Deohaeko Support Network
Janet Klees
228 pages, 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 inches, ISBN 1-895178-33-X, $20 ebook, $25 paperback
The story of the first 7 years of a small group of families who wanted their adult children with disabilities to live full and contributing lives at the heart of their community. Toward that end, the families designed and had built a 105-unit co-operative apartment building of which their 7 sons and daughters are full members. The first 7 years describes the individual and unique approach for each person as they begin to create a home for themselves, fill their days with work and other typical roles, and build the relationships which give their lives meaning. [More...]
