Ebersole and Hess' Gerontological Nursing & Healthy Aging

Ebersole & Hess’ Gerontological Nursing and Healthy Aging is the only gerontological nursing text that follows a wellness-based, holistic approach to older adult care. Designed to facilitate healthy aging regardless of the situation or disease process, this text goes beyond simply tracking recommended treatments to address complications, alleviate discomfort, and help older adults lead healthy lives. Featuring evidence-based practice boxes, safety alerts, expanded tables, and careful attention to age, gender, and cultural differences, Ebersole & Hess’ Gerontological Nursing and Healthy Aging is the most complete text on the market.

• Focus on health and wellness helps you gain an understanding of the patient’s experience.
• AACN and the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing core competencies integrated throughout.
• Consistent chapter organization and pedagogy, including Learning Objectives, Glossary, and Research and Study Questions/Activities.
• Evidence-Based Practice boxes summarize research findings that confirm effective practices or identify practices with unknown, ineffective, or harmful effects.
• Careful attention to age, cultural, and gender differences helps you understand these important considerations in caring for older adults
• Expanded tables, boxes, and forms, including the latest scales and guidelines for proper health assessment make information easy to find and use.
• Activities and discussion questions at the end of every chapter equip you with the information you need to assess the patient.

1. Introduction to healthy aging
2. Gerontological nursing history, education, and roles
3. Care across the continuum
4. Culture and aging
5. Theories of aging and physical changes
6. Social, psychological, spiritual, and cognitive aspects of aging

Part 2: Fundamentals of caring

7. Assessment and documentation for optimal care
8. Safe medication use
9. Nutrition and Hydration
10. Elimination
11. Rest, sleep, and activity
12. Promoting healthy skin and feet
13. Promoting safety

Part 3: Coping with chronic disorders in late life

14. Living with chronic illness
15. Pain and comfort
16. Diseases affecting vision and hearing
17. Metabolic disorders
18. Bone and joint problems
19. Cardiac and respiratory disorders
20. Neurological disorders
21. Cognitive impairment
22. Mental health

Part 4: Caring for elders and their caregivers

23. Economic and legal issues
24. Relationships, roles, and transitions
25. Loss, death, and palliative care