Gerontology category: 668 books
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Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Since the 1971 White House Conference on Aging in the United States, the need to move from religiosity into new areas such as Spiritual Assessment and Spirituality has emerged. This movement has picked up momentum among scholars, particularly in terms of research in the area of Spirituality. While...
Nursing Home Federal Requirements
Guidelines to Surveyors and Survey Protocols, 7th Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
"[The book] lists all the federal requirements that are evaluated by state surveyors during the annual survey visit to nursing homes and for complaint visits. The exhibit section contains forms used by surveyors to gather data during the survey visit. Visually, the format makes the regulations...
The Caregiver's Tale
Loss and Renewal in Memoirs of Family Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2006
Ann Burack-Weiss explores a rich variety of published memoirs by authors who cared for ill or disabled family members. Contrary to the common belief that caregiving is nothing more than a stressful situation to be endured, memoirs describe a life transforming experience-self-discovery, a reordering...
Aging and God
Spiritual Pathways to Mental Health in Midlife and Later Years
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
This important book examines the relationship between religion and mental health throughout the life cycle, with a special emphasis on later life. It asserts that successful aging is possible regardless of physical health or environmental circumstances, and that religious beliefs and behaviors may...
Needs Assessment
A Creative And Practical Guide For Social Scientists
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
White Saris and Sweet Mangoes
Aging, Gender, and Body in North India
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2000
This rich ethnography explores beliefs and practices surrounding aging in a rural Bengali village. Sarah Lamb focuses on how villagers' visions of aging are tied to the making and unmaking of gendered selves and social relations over a lifetime. Lamb uses a focus on age as a means not only to open...
Social Policy and Aging
A Critical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2001
This groundbreaking book provides comprehensive treatment of the political economy of aging by a scholar widely credited as the founder and key thinker of this field in the US and internationally. The body of work presented in this volume, in developing this critical perspective, aims to contribute...
Self-Neglect
Challenges for Helping Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Understand the complex ethical, legal, medical, and psychological issues of the most common form of elder abuse!
Self-Neglect examines the social, ethical, medical, and practical implications of the most prevalent form of elder abuse. It can be difficult to diagnose and treat, and it poses...
by Lisa Byrd, PhD, FNP-BC
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2011
This book will present many of the expected changes caused by normal aging and the Top Ten Geriatric Syndromes elders experience. These syndromes are a cascade of problems in an elders health and revolve around vision and hearing problems, elimination issues, dizziness, falls, and cognitive impairment...
Geriatric Pharmacology
The Principles of Practice & Clinical Recommendations
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
This book is designed to explain the aging process and help the healthcare professional reduce the chance of a drug-disease interaction or adverse drug event. By evaluating high-risk medications, minimizing polypharmacy and following essential guidelines in geriatric medicine - safety and efficacy can be achieved.
by Theris A. Touhy, DNP, CNS
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
Discover a wellness-based, holistic approach to older adult care. Ebersole & Hess’ Gerontological Nursing and Healthy Aging, 5th Edition is the only gerontological nursing text on the market that focuses on this thoughtful, organic method of care. Designed to facilitate healthy aging regardless...
Ebersole & Hess' Toward Healthy Aging - E-Book
Human Needs and Nursing Response
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
Get all the knowledge you need to provide effective care for adults as they age. Grounded in the core competencies recommended by the AACN in collaboration with the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing, Ebersole & Hess’ Toward Healthy Aging, 9th Edition is the only comprehensive text to...
by Patricia A. Williams, RN, MSN
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2015
Prepare for a successful career in caring for geriatric populations with Williams’ Basic Geriatric Nursing, 6th Edition. This easy-to-read bestseller includes the latest information on health care policy and insurance practices, and presents the theories and concepts of aging and appropriate nursing...
Reducing Stress-related Behaviours in People with Dementia
Care-based Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2005
In Reducing Stress-Related Behaviours in people with Dementia, Chris Bonner has written a thoroughly entertaining, yet highly instructive, manual for people with Alzheimer's disease and other dementias... I highly recommend that everyone who encounters persons with Alzheimer's disease or other dementias,...