PRESS RELEASE from the GRINDLE PRESS, 1992
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PRESS RELEASE from the GRINDLE PRESS, 1992 |
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A totally new look at arthritis:
a book specially for the million or so people
under 60 with a chronic rheumatic disorder
and for those who work with them
Arthritis At Your Age? is receiving an enthusiastic welcome from patients, from support groups such as Arthritis Care, Lupus UK, the Arthritis Research Campaign, and from rheumatologists, GPs, nurses, occupational therapists and physiotherapists.
Consultant rheumatologist and writer Dr Frank Dudley Hart, MD FRCP, says:
"This book will be immensely helpful to very many people with acute or sub-acute inflammatory arthritis, and I'd be the first to buy it and recommend it."
There are many books on the market about arthritis, but few if any understand what it's like to have arthritis when you're young. Most concentrate on older people, most of whom have osteoarthritis (OA). Arthritis At Your Age? focuses instead on the types of chronic inflammatory arthritis which tend to start in people under 60:
rheumatoid arthritis (RA) — usually starts before the age of 45
ankylosing spondylitis (AS) — usually starts in the 20s
systemic lupus erythematosus (lupus/SLE) — tends to start in the teens or 20s
psoriatic arthritis (PsA) — commonest in the 30s, 40s and 50s
juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) — affects children under 16, and babies
Arthritis At Your Age? addresses the anxieties and craving for information of people in their late teens to early 50s when faced with the prospect of living with a variable, unpredictable chronic disorder which can be wide-ranging in its impact on body, lifestyle, and emotions:
Arthritis At Your Age? is a mine of information and tips on ways of 'living with arthritis', and outwitting it. It's positive and encouraging — a carefully researched handbook, which talks to the reader as one friend to another; it draws on the experiences of other younger people with arthritis and reassures the reader s/he is not alone; and it provides plenty of information to help people help themselves and lead as full a life as possible. It's also written to help other people — health professionals, family, friends and partners — understand and respond more effectively too. Much may also be of interest to older people with arthritis.
Topics covered include the nature of arthritis and its treatment; physical and emotional aspects (including relationships and sexual aspects); self-help and aids to daily living (plus advice on state benefits); employment; and creative use of leisure time.
"Combines a friend's chattiness with the authority of a well-sourced academic work."
Arthritis News
"Extremely user-friendly … Jill Holroyd has hit on the successful formula for a handbook."
Young Arthritis News
"Magnificent … intelligently and systematically compiled. No similar work by other aspiring authors need be attempted, not at least until the third millennium."
Dr Benjamin Green, Medical Adviser to Lupus UK
"We would strongly recommend it."
Raynaud's & Scleroderma Association newsletter
"A good example of the genre. Useful if every rheumatology unit had a copy of this book to lend to patients."
Nursing Times
Jill Holroyd, author of Arthritis At Your Age? developed juvenile idiopathic arthritis at the age of 10, followed by the later appearance in her mid 30s of other rheumatic disorders: systemic sclerosis, Raynaud's phenomenon, and Sjogren's syndrome. She also has a BA (Hons) degree and a full-time job. Through her involvement with Arthritis Care's self-help group for younger people, she has met many other younger women and men who face the challenge of living a full a life as possible despite the disrupting and painful effects of chronic inflammatory arthritis.
Arthritis At Your Age? by Jill Holroyd
is published by the Grindle Press, Ipswich, Suffolk
[2007 note: address no longer valid]
out of print [2007 note]
ISBN 0 9518816 0 4
314 pages, 255mm by 185mm
paperback, specially bound to open flat for readers with weak hands
£11.95 (non net) if ordered through a bookseller, or £9.60 (includes £1.65 p&p), if ordered direct from the publisher. Donations to appropriate charities will be made from any profits.
[2007 note: we regret to say that Dr Frank Dudley Hart, MD FRCP, passed away in 2004]