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Human Needs and Nursing Response
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Seventh Edition
By
Priscilla Ebersole, RN, PhD, FAAN, Professor Emerita, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, USA
Theris Touhy, DNP, GCNS-BC
Patricia Hess, PhD, APRN, BC, NAP, Professor of Nursing, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, USA
Kathleen Jett, PhD, GNP-BC, Gerontological Nurse Practitioner, Gaithersburg, MD, USA
Ann Luggen, PhD, RN, GNP-CS, CNAA, Professor of Nursing, Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, KY
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.
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
| Bibliographic details |
Hardbound, 752 pages, publication date: OCT-2007
ISBN-13: 978-0-323-04730-2
ISBN-10: 0-323-04730-0
Imprint: MOSBY
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Last update: 26 Feb 2010
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