These Information Guides have been developed to help patients and families find sources of information and support. These Guides are not meant to be comprehensive, but rather to provide starting points for information seeking. These Guides are created by the librarian in the Mardigian Wellness Resource Center, a cardiovascular consumer health library, in the University of Michigan Frankel Cardiovascular Center.
The Mardigian Wellness Resource Center provides materials for information and convenience only. They are not to be substituted for medical advice. Medical information is often controversial and continually changes. Please talk to your doctor about your specific concerns.
This book explains what heart failure is including causes, symptoms, treatment and challenges as well as information on living and managing with heart failure.
Provides strategies for cutting back on sodium gradually.
This book is based on fifty years of patient care and includes stroke warning signs, including little-known signs that go unrecognized by most.
Provides low-salt recipes as well as tips to help as the supermarket and restaurants.
Includes over 500 low-sodium recipes.
This book provides a practical guide to stroke.
This book provides simple instructions for reaching the highest possible level of healing.
A guide on how to prevent heart disease based on genetic factors.
Provides information on different types of stoke and why they occur. Also provides information on what to expect following a stroke, including the recovery and rehabilitation process.
Provides information on life after stroke for patients, families and caregivers.
This book shows caregivers how to care for themselves even as their time and daily lives are consumed by the necessities of their loved one.
This book helps caregivers figure out how to look after aging loved ones, provide for other family members, and attend to their own lives without losing themselves in the process.
The author, Gail Sheehy, knows firsthand the trials, fears, and rare joys of caregiving. Here, she identifies eight crucial stages of caregiving and offers insight for successfully navigating each one. Most important, however, she points out that you don't have to be alone in this process. This book can help turn a stressful, life-altering situation into a journey that can be safely navigated and from which everyone can benefit.
This book is an authoritative, clear, and comforting source of advice and support for the ever-growing number of Americans--now 42 million--who care for an elderly parent, relative, or friend.
Here, the longtime New York Times expert on the subject of elderly care and the founder of the New Old Age blog shares her frustrating, heartbreaking, enlightening, and ultimately redemptive journey, providing us along the way with valuable information that she wishes she had known earlier.
This Information Guide may contain information and/or instructional materials developed by Michigan Medicine for the typical patient with your condition. It may include links to online content that was not created by Michigan Medicine and for which Michigan Medicine does not assume responsibility. It does not replace medical advice from your health care provider because your experience may differ from that of the typical patient. Talk to your health care provider if you have any questions about this document, your condition or your treatment plan.