Toward Healthy Aging

Human Needs and Nursing Response

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Brand: Mosby

ISBN: 9780323047302

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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 Maslows 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.

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Brand Mosby

Reference 37145

EAN13 9780323047302

ISBN 9780323047302

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Publication date: 2007
Issue number: 7
Cover: hard cover
Pages count: 752
Dimensions (mm): 216 x 276
Weight (g): 1760

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