COMPREHENSIVE GERIATRIC CARE MANUAL HEALTHY: Aging, Functional Evaluation, Medication Optimization, and Multidisciplinary Planning

By Evercrest Publishing

Build a stronger, more coordinated approach to the complex care needs of older adults.

The **Comprehensive Geriatric Care Manual Healthy** provides healthcare professionals and students with a practical framework for evaluating health, function, medications, safety, independence, and care priorities across later life.

Caring for older adults requires more than managing individual diagnoses. Aging can influence mobility, cognition, nutrition, medication response, communication, continence, sensory function, resilience, social support, and the ability to complete everyday activities. Effective geriatric care therefore depends on understanding the whole person.

This manual brings those responsibilities together in clear, organized language.

Readers will strengthen their understanding of:

- Principles of healthy and successful aging
- Comprehensive geriatric assessment
- Functional evaluation and activities of daily living
- Instrumental activities of daily living
- Mobility, gait, balance, and fall-risk evaluation
- Frailty and declining physiologic reserve
- Cognitive assessment and changes in mental status
- Delirium, dementia, and depression considerations
- Medication review and polypharmacy
- Potentially inappropriate medications and treatment burden
- Medication adherence and simplification strategies
- Nutrition, hydration, and weight changes
- Continence and toileting concerns
- Vision, hearing, and sensory changes
- Sleep and fatigue
- Pain assessment in older adults
- Pressure injury and skin-integrity prevention
- Chronic-disease management
- Preventive care and health promotion
- Rehabilitation and preservation of independence
- Family and caregiver involvement
- Transitions between care settings
- Advance care planning and goals of care
- Multidisciplinary communication and coordination
- Individualized care planning and follow-up

Rather than approaching geriatric care as a collection of unrelated medical problems, this manual emphasizes how health conditions interact with **function, medications, cognition, environment, social support, personal goals, and quality of life**.

Readers learn to recognize changes that may signal declining function, identify potentially modifiable risks, review medications more systematically, support independence, communicate effectively with families, and build care plans around what matters most to the individual.

This resource is suitable for nurses, clinicians, advanced-practice professionals, long-term-care teams, home-health personnel, rehabilitation staff, care coordinators, students, and other professionals involved in older-adult care.

Whether you are developing geriatric knowledge, supporting multidisciplinary care planning, strengthening a clinical program, or refreshing essential concepts, this manual provides an organized pathway toward more thoughtful, person-centered care.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HDRX8QD1
• ISBN13: 9798192041178
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 0.6" x 8.5"