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  Adding Life to Years
Managing Post-Polio: A Guide to Living and Aging Well with Post-Polio Syndrome
Edited by Lauro S. Halstead, M.D.
$13.95
Publication Date: 9/1/2006

Read an excerpt from Managing Post-Polio

NRH Press is pleased to offer a new, fully-revised Second Edition of this highly respected guide to living and aging well with post-polio syndrome. Managing Post-Polio has been fully updated with:

  • All-new resources lists and references
  • Complete new sections on living and aging well with post-polio syndrome
  • Expanded and updated chapters throughout
  • Up-to-date information on the latest medical developments
  • New personal stories from persons who have prevailed in the face of ongoing disability

This book provides a comprehensive overview of dealing with the medical, psychological, vocational and other challenges of living with post-polio syndrome. With contributions from over 15 healthcare professionals, many of whom are polio survivors themselves, Managing Post-Polio distills and summarizes the wealth of information presented from over the past 20 plus years.

What they said about the First Edition:

Highly recommended for all consumer health and public library collections. — Starred Review, Library Journal

. . . nontechnical but meticulously detailed . . . An extremely useful work, directed at specific audiences: polios and their families and medical and social welfare personnel who work with polios.Choice

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NRH Press was founded to support the NRH mission of education and training. These high quality books will make a valuable and affordable addition to any library.

 
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