Toward Healthy Aging: Human Needs & Nursing Response

By Patricia Hess, Priscilla Ebersole, Theris A. Touhy, et al.

Book Overview

Toward Healthy Aging is a definitive, comprehensive source for health promotion and health maintenance in gerontologic nursing education. Noted for its use of Maslow's hierarchy of needs, this resource has been praised for its: wellness-based and holistic approach; comprehensive coverage of common, as well as not-so-common, conditions in the older adult; accuracy of content; and pedagogic aids that promote student understanding. This text provides a solid understanding of how to effectively provide holistic care, promote healthy lives, and addresses end-of-life issues and concerns for today's older adults and their families/caregivers.Focus on health and wellness establishes a positive perspective to aging.Unique Disease processes are discussed in the context of healthy adaptation, nursing support, and responsibilities to help the reader gain an understanding of a client's experience.Careful attention to age, cultural, and gender differences are integrated throughout to help nurses understand these important considerations in caring for older adults.Each chapter provides a consistent organization including objectives, case studies, research, and study questions/activities to make information easy to find and use.Assessment guidelines are incorporated throughout as tables, boxes, and forms to provide useful tools for practice.Case studies at the end of each chapter provide realistic situations to expand knowledge and understanding.Appendices and resource lists assist the reader in further exploration of material.Up-to-date content on AIDS provides the reader with important information related to this growing concern among older adults.Correlates with federal guidelines or Healthy People 2010 to help students integrate knowledge about healthy aging considerations.Unique Wellness Diagnosis pyramids, based on Maslow's hierarchy of needs, help readers determine which diagnoses to consider when planning care for the older adult.Places greater emphasis on the needs of caregivers working with older adults in the home and community settings.Expands content on pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic pain management.Expands content on end-of-life issues and concerns for both the older adult and family/caregiver. The previous edition of Toward Healthy Aging won a national award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for its coverage of this important topic.Incorporates new healthy aging strategies to maximize the healthiest behaviors of clients with dementia and their caregivers.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0323020127
• ISBN13: 9780323020121
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Mosby
• Length: 816 Pages
• Weight: 4.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 1.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

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book was delivered fast! and in great condition! would definitely order from the same buyer again!

Toward Healthy Aging: Human Needs and Nursing Response

Easy to read and understand and pertinent for the class that I am taking. This book arrived in pristine condition.

Textbook review

This text book has a ton of information on the elderly and the history of nursing in the gerontological field. The book is not real exciting to read, but the information that nursing students need is in there.

Toward Healthy Aging

Book is exactly what I ordered and was in perfect condition. Many students in my class were not able to obtain this book through the university bookstore.

The definitive textbook on geriatrics nursing

This book is the definitive text on geriatrics nursing. Its primary author, Priscilla Ebersole, RN, PhD, FAAN, is the editor of Geriatric Nursing, the leading magazine in the field, and is professor emerita of nursing, San Francisco State University and a pioneer in the field of geriatrics nursing.The list of contributors is a veritable 'Who's Who' in the field, and the text is as complete and definitive as might be expected of such a staff, each of whom is an expert in their own right.Mosby, a leader in the field, has outdone themselves in this effort.