Toward Healthy Aging is a definitive, comprehensive source for health promotion and health maintenance in gerontologic nursing education. Noted for its use of Maslow's hierarchy of needs, this resource and its author team have been praised for the text's wellness-based and holistic approach; comprehensive coverage of common, as well as not-so-common, conditions in the older adult; accuracy of content; and pedagogic aids that promote student understanding. This popular resource provides a solid understanding of how to effectively provide holistic care, promote healthy lives, and address end-of-life issues and concerns. Instructor resources are available; please contact your Elsevier sales representative for details.
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<li>Focus on health and wellness establishes a positive perspective to aging.</li>
<li>Unique! Disease processes are discussed in the context of healthy adaptation, nursing support, and responsibilities to help the reader gain an understanding of a client's experience.</li>
<li>Careful attention to age, cultural, and gender differences are integrated throughout to help nurses understand these important considerations in caring for older adults.</li>
<li>Each chapter provides a consistent organization including objectives, case studies, research, and study questions/activities to make information easy to find and use.</li>
<li>Assessment guidelines are incorporated throughout as tables, boxes, and forms to provide useful tools for practice.</li>
<li>Case studies at the end of each chapter provide realistic situations to expand knowledge and understanding.</li>
<li>Appendices and resource lists assist the reader in further exploration of material.</li>
<li>Up-to-date content on AIDS provides the reader with important information related to this growing concern among older adults.</li>
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<li>Correlates with federal guidelines or Healthy People 2010 to help students integrate knowledge about healthy aging considerations.</li>
<li>Unique! Wellness Diagnosis pyramids, based on Maslow's hierarchy of needs, help readers determine which diagnoses to consider when planning care for the older adult.</li>
<li>Places greater emphasis on the needs of caregivers working with older adults in the home and community settings.</li>
<li>Expands content on pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic pain management.</li>
<li>Expands content on end-of-life issues and concerns for both the older adult and family/caregiver. The previous edition of Toward Healthy Aging won a national award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for its coverage of this important topic.</li>
<li>Incorporates new healthy aging strategies to maximize the healthiest behaviors of clients with dementia and their caregivers.</li>
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Toward Healthy Aging: Human Needs & Nursing Response

Medical Books

Priscilla Ebersole

Patricia Hess

Ann Schmidt Luggen

Nursing

Mosby

Gerontological Nursing &amp; Healthy Aging provides thorough coverage of promoting healthy aging when caring for older adults. The intent throughout the book is to facilitate the healthiest adaptation possible for any older adult, regardless of the situation and disease process. The majority of the book is devoted to discussing the significant problems that may occur and methods that nurses may use to make these problems more bearable, to solve some, and to help the elder find the best possible resolution towards healthy aging.
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<li>Incorporates healthy aging strategies to maximize the healthiest behaviors of clients/patients with dementia and their caregivers.</li>
<li>Disease processes are discussed in the context of healthy adaptation, nursing support &amp; responsibilities to help the reader gain an understanding of their client's experience.</li>
<li>Focus on health and wellness establishes a positive perspective to aging.</li>
<li>Careful attention to age, cultural, and gender differences are integrated throughout to help the nurse understand these important considerations in caring for older adults.</li>
<li>Each chapter provides a consistent organization including learning objectives, research &amp; study questions/activities.</li>
<li>Assessment guidelines are incorporated throughout as tables, boxes, and forms to provide useful tools for practice.</li>
<li>Activities and discussion questions at the end of every chapter provide situations to expand student knowledge and understanding.</li>
<li>Appendices and resource lists assist in further exploration of material.</li>
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<li>Text correlates with federal guidelines for Healthy People 2010 to assist the student in integrating knowledge about healthy aging considerations.</li>
<li>Expanded content on pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic pain management in Chapter 15 and integrated within appropriate content sections.</li>
<li>Completely revised Culture and Aging chapter includes discussions of health disparities and working with interpreters to help identify nursing care interventions appropriate for ethnic elders.</li>
<li>New author team with Theris Touhy and Kathleen Jett adds a wealth of experience related to gerontological nursing education and research.</li>
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Gerontological Nursing and Healthy Aging

Theris Touhy

Kathleen Jett

Designated a Doody's Core Title! Named an Outstanding Academic Title for 2006 by Choice "Those who are interested in the care of older individuals will find this book thoughtful, exciting, and useful. . . Highly recommended." --Choice Learn the history of the development of geriatric nursing as a specialty, as well as the current state of geriatric nursing, from the stories of pioneers in this field. Through the history of those who laid the foundations for the profession to the geriatric nurse leaders who continue the specialty today, see first-hand how geriatric nursing began, evolved, and continues to flourish. Covering the scope of the specialty:How to become a geriatric nurse Geriatric nursing organizations and publications Standards of practice Certification and licensure Future directionsThis text provides both inspirational stories of nursing and practical information on how you can find resources, develop ideas, and access research in order to become a successful geriatric nurse.

Geriatric Nursing: Growth of a Specialty (Springer Series in Geriatric Nursing)

Science & Math

Theris A. Touhy

Evolution

Springer Publishing Company

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