Gerontology category: 668 books
Fast Facts for the Gerontology Nurse
A Nursing Care Guide in a Nutshell
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013
This convenient and easy-to-use pocket-sized reference provides gerontology nurses with the foundational knowledge they need to provide all aspects of safe, effective care to older patients. It contains crucial evidence-based information that enables nurses to differentiate between normal and abnormal...
Adult-Gerontology and Family Nurse Practitioner: Self-Assessment and Exam Review
Nursing Certification Review
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
The Key to Success
for the Adult-Gerontology and Family Nurse Practitioner Certification exams!
Adult-Gerontology and Family Nurse Practitioner Self-Assessment and Exam Review is the perfect way to prepare for the Adult-Gerontology and Family Nurse Certification exams. This powerful...
Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Volume 32, 2012
Emerging Perspectives on Resilience in Adulthood and Later Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
"This collection is a timely and excellent contribution to the study of resilience and the field of gerontology."--Anthropology and Aging Quarterly
This state-of-the science, multidisciplinary Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics provides a comprehensive examination of critical...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
Later years are changing under the impact of demographic, social and cultural shifts. No longer confined to the sphere of social welfare, they are now studied within a wider cultural framework that encompasses new experiences and new modes of being. Drawing on influences from the arts and humanities,...
by Kate De Medeiros, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
What is meant by narrative? How can one elicit a narrative or analyze it in research? How can narrative work best be facilitated among older adults? This is the only text to provide comprehensive information about the applications of narrative approaches in community and long-term settings, writing...
Gerontology
Perspectives and Issues, Fourth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
This newest edition of a core graduate level textbook has added six new chapters to further enrich the ìgerontological imagination,î and encourage an interdisciplinary approach to the study of aging. Academically rigorous yet clear and accessible, the text provides the most current findings from...
Gerontology in the Era of the Third Age
Implications and Next Steps
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
The "third age" is described as the period in the life course that occurs after retirement but prior to the onset of disability, revealing a period in which individuals have the capacity to remain actively engaged. This book serves as a comprehensive discussion about how the emergence of...
Ageing, meaning and social structure
Connecting critical and humanistic gerontology
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
Ageing, meaning and social structure is a unique book advancing critical discourse in gerontology and makes a major contribution to understanding key social and ethical dilemmas facing ageing societies. It confronts and integrates approaches that have been relatively isolated from each other, and...
Environmental Gerontology
What Now?
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Environmental gerontology – the research on aging and environment – evolved during the late 1960s, when the domain became a relevant topic due to societal concerns with the problems of housing for elderly people. The field proliferated during the 1970s and 1980s, and remains viable and active...
Gerontology Nursing Case Studies, Second Edition
100+ Narratives for Learning
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
Praise for the first edition:
“This is an excellent teaching guide and resource manual for instructors, gerontological nursing students, and practicing nurses and social workers who wish to learn more about geriatric concerns and care. It will be kept by nursing students long after they graduate...
Qualitative Gerontology
A Contemporary Perspective, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2001
The authors provide a contemporary perspective on the status of qualitative research in gerontology. The second edition examines recent trends in the application of qualitative methodologies and the emergence of new qualitative techniques such as focus groups, studies of personal histories, and the...
Introduction to Aging
A Positive, Interdisciplinary Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
"This new textbook creates a paradigm shift with a very practical approach to problem solving. Aging is an asset. Its focus on well care rather than just sick care by understanding physical fitness, sexual fitness, consumer fitness, nutritional fitness and social fitness among others, all point...
Ethics, Aging, and Society
The Critical Turn
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
"Ethics, Aging and Society...is the first major work in ten years to critically address issues and methodologies in aging and ethics...This well-organized volume begins theoretically and offers new ways of thinking about ethics that can handle the complexities and realities of aging in particular...
by Meredith Wallace, PhD, APRN-BC
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2008
The Gerontological Nurse Certification Review is an invaluable reference and certification test review guide for nurses preparing for RN Gerontological certification. Students studying gerontology, teachers preparing gerontology classes, and RNs working with older adults will also find this a practical...