Research in the nursing care of elderly people

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    • Fielding, Pauline

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Research in the nursing care of elderly people

edited by Pauline Fielding

(Wiley series on developments in nursing research, v. 5)(A Wiley medical publication)

J. Wiley, c1987

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The fifth volume in this nursing series presents some studies of the specific, practical problems of nursing old people. It covers important aspects of research recently carried out in Geriatric Research Units, and discusses subjects such as rehabilitation, senile dementia, functional mobility, nurse education and community services for the elderly.

Table of Contents

  • The accurate measurement of pressure sores
  • monitoring bowel habit in elderly people
  • developments in the provision and evaluation of long term care for dependent old people
  • evaluation of a community-based night sitter service
  • a clinical trial of incontinence garments
  • prediction of rehabilitation success
  • reliability and validity of an in-patient mobility rating scale
  • a study of non-verbal communication between nurses and elderly patients
  • multi- disciplinary education
  • a way for the future? - recent advances in the understanding of dementia.

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