Toward healthy aging : human needs and nursing response
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Toward healthy aging : human needs and nursing response
Mosby/Elsevier, c2008
7th ed
- : hardcover
Available at 28 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
As the most comprehensive resource on health promotion and maintenance for older adults and their families and caregivers, "Toward Healthy Aging, 7th Edition" includes the most current information you need to provide effective holistic care, promote healthy lifestyle choices, and address end-of-life issues. Grounded in the core competencies recommended by the AACN in collaboration with the Hartfound Institute for Geriatric Nursing and using Maslow's hierarchy of needs, this book includes complete coverage of both common and uncommon conditions in the older adult. "Towards Healthy Aging" also highlights key aging issues with sections devoted to basic physiologic needs, safety and security, the need to belong, self-esteem, and self-actualization.
Table of Contents
PART ONE: FOUNDATIONS OF HEALTHY AGING 1. Gerontological Nursing and an Aging Society 2. Theories of Aging 3. Health and Wellness 4. Physiologic Changes with Aging 5. Laboratory Values and Diagnostics 6. Health Assessment in Gerontological Nursing NEW! PART TWO: BASIC BIOLOGIC NEEDS 7. Managing Basic Physiologic Needs 8. Biologic Maintenance Needs 9. Nutritional Needs NEW! 10. Chronic Disease in Late Life 11. Pain and Comfort 12. Geropharmacology and Psychotherapeutics in Late Life 13. The Use of Herbs and Supplements in Late Life 14. Sensory Function 15. Mobility PART THREE: SAFETY AND SECURITY NEEDS 16. Environmental Safety and Security 17. Economic, Residential, and Legal Issues 18. Frailty, Vulnerability, and Elder Mistreatment PART FOUR: THE NEED TO BELONG 19. Intimacy and Sexuality in Late Life 20. Relationships, Roles, and Transitions PART FIVE: SELF-ESTEEM 21. Culture, Gender, and Aging 22. Nursing and Aging in Rural and Frontier Settings 23. Cognition and Caring for Persons with Cognitive Impairment 24. Stress, Crises, and Health in Aging 25. Emotional Health in Late Life PART SIX: SELF-ACTUALIZATION 26. Loss, Death, and Dying in Late Life 27. Self-Actualization, Spirituality, and Transcendence
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