Get all the knowledge you need to provide effective care for adults as they age. Grounded in the core competencies recommended by the AACN in collaboration with the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing, Ebersole & Hess’ Toward Healthy Aging, 9th Edition is the only comprehensive text to address all aspects of gerontological nursing care. The new ninth edition has been extensively revised and updated and now includes shorter, more streamlined chapters and pedagogical features to facilitate learning, covering the areas of safety and ethical considerations, genetics, communication with the patient and caregiver, promoting health in persons with conditions commonly occurring in later-life world-wide addressing loss and palliative care and much more. This new edition considers the experience of aging as a universal experience and the nurse’s role in the reduction of health disparities and inequities as a member of the global community. Plus, it contains a variety of new learning features that focus the readers’ attention on applying research and thinking critically in providing care to aging adults across the care continuum.
This new edition considers the experience of aging as a universal experience and the nurse's role in the reduction of health disparities and inequities as a member of the global community.
"Toward Healthy Aging: Human Needs and Nursing Response, 7th Edition, utilizes Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs as the framework to provide a holistic, wellness-based approach to aging.
With a strong focus on health and wellness, this gerontological nursing text offers you a holistic perspective to caring for older adults.
TOWARD HEALTHY AGING is based on Maslow's conceptual framework of human needs from the basic to the transcendental. With a focus on wellness and healthy aging, this fifth edition emphasizes...
The third edition of Health Care Policy and Politics A to Z has been completely updated and now includes many new entries.
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This comprehensive text contains vital information necessary to caring for elders, including topics such as disease and disabilities associated with aging, to illuminate underlying philosophical tenants and social issues.
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GERONTOLOGIC NURSING provides comprehensive coverage of health promotion, gerontologic concepts and issues, and medical-surgical problems associated with the older adult. Divided into seven parts, each chapter follows a consistent organization...