ISBN:
9780702082481
Copyright:
2024
Publication Date:
05-22-2023
Page Count:
624
Imprint:
Elsevier
List Price:
$55.99
Nursing Older People, 5th Edition
by Fiona M. Ross, CBE,PhD, BSc, RN, Ruth Harris, BSc (Hons) MSc PhD RN, Joanne M. Fitzpatrick, BSc PhD RN PGCEA and Clare Abley
Elsevier eBook on VitalSource
ISBN:
9780702082481
Copyright:
2024
Publication Date:
05-22-2023
Page Count:
624
Imprint:
Elsevier
List Price:
$55.99
Most review copies are eBooks – how fast!
A review copy request is most likely to be fulfilled as an eBook on VitalSource rather than a print product, unless no eBook is available. eBooks become available in as little as a few hours. Print products will take between 7 and 10 days to arrive. To request a print copy, please contact us through the Evolve Support Center for further assistance or contact your Education Solutions Consultant.
Any student who attempts to request a review copy will be reported to the school's faculty and administration.
-
- Written by a team of 68 specialists and experts drawn from the fields of nursing, social sciences, gerontology and healthcare practice
- Covers the latest evidence, policy and nursing practice
- Focus on nursing-led solutions for improving activities of daily living, independence and preventing common problems of ageing
- Accessible to all, with stories, case studies and lived experience to bring material to life
- Summaries and learning points support learning around complex problems
- Emphasis on countering ageism using images and wider literature where appropriate
-
- All chapters either extensively rewritten or completely new
- New chapters on frailty, the misuse of alcohol as a growing problem in old age, digital technology, and nursing older people with intellectual disabilities
- Core themes of gerontology embedded throughout, such as assessment and rehabilitation
- Impact of COVID-19 embedded throughout
-
SECTION 1 Ageing and Old Age
1 Introduction
2 What Is Old Age?
3 Demographic and Epidemiological Trends in Ageing
4 The Psychology of Human Ageing
5 The Biology of Human Ageing
6 Nursing the Older Person Living With Frailty
SECTION 2 People, Policy and the Place of Care
7 Policy Context of Nursing in Health and Social Care
8 Public Health: Healthy Ageing and Well-Being
9 Health and Social Care for Older People in the Community
10 Nursing Older People in Hospital
11 Care Home Nursing Is ‘Maxi-Nursing’: The Value and Contribution of Nursing Older People in Long-Term Care Settings
12 Meeting the Health Needs of Older People Experiencing Homelessness and Other Inclusion Health Groups
13 Informal, Unpaid Carers
14 Abuse and Safeguarding
SECTION 3 Independence and Maintaining Function
15 Communication Challenges and Skills
16 Older People and Hearing
17 Older People’s Eye Health
18 Promoting Safe Mobility for Older People
19 Care of the Foot
20 Breathing
21 Eating and Drinking
22 Bladder and Bowel Health
23 Infection Prevention and Control and Thermoregulation in Older People
24 Maintaining Healthy Skin
25 Sleep and Rest
26 Sexuality and Relationships in Later Life
27 Pain and Older People
28 Delirium: Diagnosis, Management and Care for Older People
29 Care of the Person Living With Dementia
30 Depression in Older People
31 Medicine Management
32 Alcohol Misuse and Ageing
33 Nursing Older People With Intellectual Disabilities
34 End-of-Life Care: Dying, Bereavement and Loss
35 The Role of Technology and Digital Tools in the Care and Support of Older People
SECTION 4 Postscript: New Directions and Reflections on Caring for Older People
36 New Directions and Reflections on Caring for Older People
Index
Most review copies are eBooks – how fast!
A review copy request is most likely to be fulfilled as an eBook on VitalSource rather than a print product, unless no eBook is available. eBooks become available in as little as a few hours. Print products will take between 7 and 10 days to arrive. To request a print copy, please contact us through the Evolve Support Center for further assistance or contact your Education Solutions Consultant.
Any student who attempts to request a review copy will be reported to the school's faculty and administration.
as described in our 