Gerontology

Keeping Busy: A Handbook of Activities for Persons with Dementia

Although very little can be done to alter the course of dementia, much can be done to maximize the quality of life of people with the condition. Research as well as practical experience suggest that behavior management, especially through programs that provide meaningful and constructive activity, is currently the most effective treatment.

In Keeping Busy, James Dowling describes a variety of activities designed to bring meaning and enjoyment to the lives of persons with dementia. The activities are organized by general categories such as music, exercise, horticulture, pets, humor, and social events. The largest section deals with communication and includes word games that help people strengthen their remaining verbal skills. The description of each activity includes step-by-step instructions, as well as tips on how to adapt it for small or large groups, for individuals at home or in an organization, or people who are bedridden.

Gerontological Nursing (Gerontological Nursing (Eliopoulos))

When Your Loved One Has Dementia: A Simple Guide for Caregivers

Eighty percent of persons with dementia live at home, and the family members caring for them are often overwhelmed by the enormous responsibility and the complexities of care. This book is designed to support the caregivers and help them understand the needs and feelings of the person for whom they are caring. A central focus is the goal of sustaining a loving family relationship between the caregiver and the patient.

Developed from a training program for professionals and family caregivers, this book teaches the basics of dementia care while emphasizing communication, understanding and acceptance, and personal growth through the caregiving experience. The result is a guide that integrates the practicalities of caregiving with the human emotions that accompany it.

Ebersole and Hess' Gerontological Nursing & Healthy Aging

With a strong focus on health and wellness, this gerontological nursing text offers you a holistic perspective to caring for older adults. Designed to facilitate the healthiest adaptation possible, this text identifies potential problems that may occur and the means to address complications, alleviate discomfort, and help older adults lead healthy lives. Disease processes are discussed in the context of healthy adaptation, nursing support, and nursing responsibilities to help you gain an understanding of your clients' experience.

• Focus on health and wellness establishes a positive perspective to aging.
• Careful attention to age, cultural, and gender differences are integrated throughout to help you understand these important considerations when caring for older adults.
• Healthy aging strategies maximize the healthiest behaviors of clients with dementia and their caregivers.
• Consistent chapter organization includes learning objectives, research, and study questions/activities to make information easy to find and use.
• Incorporates assessment guidelines throughout provide useful tools for practice.
• End-of-chapter activities and discussion questions help you expand your knowledge and understanding of the content.
• Resource lists provide you with additional means to explore ways to care for the older adult.

• Incorporates the core competencies identified by the AACN and the Hartford Foundation Institute for Geriatric Nursing.
• Healthy People 2010 boxes assist you in integrating knowledge about healthy aging considerations.
• Evidence-Based Practice boxes summarize research findings that confirm effective practices or identify practices with unknown, ineffective, or harmful effects.
• Expanded sexuality-related content includes older adults living with AIDS and STDs.
• Genetics section reflects the emergence of the role of genetics in gerontological assessment.

Toward Healthy Aging: Human Needs and Nursing Response (Toward Healthy Aging (Ebersole))

As the most comprehensive resource on health promotion and maintenance for older adults and their families and caregivers, Toward Healthy Aging, 7th Edition includes the most current information you need to provide effective holistic care, promote healthy lifestyle choices, and address end-of-life issues. Grounded in the core competencies recommended by the AACN in collaboration with the Hartfound Institute for Geriatric Nursing and using Maslow's hierarchy of needs, this book includes complete coverage of both common and uncommon conditions in the older adult. Towards Healthy Aging also highlights key aging issues with sections devoted to basic physiologic needs, safety and security, the need to belong, self-esteem, and self-actualization.

• A strong focus on health and wellness emphasizes a positive approach to aging.
• Disease processes are discussed in the context of healthy adaptation, nursing support, and responsibilities.
• Careful attention to age, cultural, and gender differences are integrated throughout to help you remember these important considerations when caring for older adults.
• Up-to-date content on AIDS provides important information on addressing this growing concern among older adults.
• Consistent chapter is organization with objectives, case studies, critical thinking questions, research, and study questions make information easy to find and use.
• Assessment guidelines are incorporated throughout in helpful tables, boxes, and forms for quick access.
• Case studies at the end of most chapters explore realistic patient care scenarios to help you expand your knowledge and understanding.
• Resource lists and appendices provide opportunities for further research and study.

• With over 200 illustrations, the full-color design is engaging and easy to read.
• Healthy People 2010 boxes address healthy aging considerations.
• Evidence-Based Practice boxes help you incorporate the latest research findings into practice and advise you on how to avoid potentially harmful practices.
• A Nutritional Needs chapter includes the most current nutritional guidelines for older adults to help you better address patients' nutritional needs.
• Includes the latest scales and guidelines for assessing the gerontologic patient in the Health Assessment in Gerontological Nursing chapter.
• Expanded coverage of end-of-life issues helps you meet the needs of older adults and their families and caregivers during this difficult transition.
• Economics of aging discussions help you better understand the financial challenges your patients may face.
• The latest pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic pain management information helps you reduce pain and discomfort for your patients and helps you provide more effective care.

Basic Geriatric Nursing

Part of the popular LPN threads series, Basic GERIATRIC NURSING, 4th Edition presents the theories and concepts of aging, the physiologic and psychosocial changes and problems associated with the process, and appropriate nursing interventions. With its easy-to-read, clear writing style, this text provides the right depth and breadth of geriatrics content for LPN/LVNs.

• UNIQUE! Nursing Care Plans follow the nursing process and include Critical Thinking Questions at the end of each plan.
• UNIQUE! Key Points at the end of chapters summarize chapter highlights.
• Clear, concise writing throughout, makes the content easily understandable and consistent.
• Nursing Process sections in each appropriate chapter provides a strong framework for the discussion of the nursing care of the elderly patient as related to specific disorders.
• UNIQUE! Nursing Interventions grouped according to health care setting (e.g. acute care, extended care, home care) allow you to see how care may be adapted and/or modified depending on the setting.
• UNIQUE! Patient Teaching boxes instruct and inform both elderly patients and their caregivers about health promotion, disease prevention, and age-specific interventions.
• UNIQUE! Complementary and Alternative Therapies boxes for geriatric patients provide valuable information on pain management through nonpharmocologic therapies.
• Clinical Situations boxes include patient scenarios in the clinical setting, preparing you for patient care in the real world.
• UNIQUE! Delegation Considerations boxes address such topics as restraints, elder abuse, and end-of-life care as related to responsibilities of nursing assistants and other health care workers who are supervised by LPN/LVNs.
• UNIQUE! Critical Thinking boxes stress important content-related points and pose questions designed to stimulate further discussion.
• Cultural Considerations boxes provide advice on culturally diverse patient care of older adults.
• Includes content on ethical and legal issues in end-of-life care (including separate chapter that addresses pain management and palliative care in both the institutional and home settings).
• UNIQUE! Perforated Student Activities workbook at the back of the book includes a variety of matching, multiple-choice, study questions, case studies with critical thinking questions, and Internet activities.

• Full-color art, photographs, and design create a vivid, dynamic background for the narrative.
• Improved format with more bulleted lists and smaller chunks of content make content even easier to understand and retain.
• Case Studies and related Questions and Activities in the Student Activities section at the back of the book are detailed, in-depth clinical scenarios and related questions.
• Content on Home Health for both patients and caregivers includes essential information for LPN/LVNs caring for older adults in the home setting.
• Content on Alzheimer's disease help you recognize the many manifestations of the disease in each of its stages and provide safe, appropriate care.
• Increased content on therapeutic communication acknowledges generational and cultural differences among patients and caregivers and helps you learn how to communicate effectively with older adults in any stage of health or illness.
• Increased cultural content on the impact of aging in other cultures throughout help you become more culturally sensitive when providing nursing care.
• UNIQUE! Section on Baby Boomers and the impact of their aging on health care addresses key information on the largest age group and their health care needs.
• MyPyramid illustrates the 2005 revised guidelines from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and allows individualization of nutritional guidelines, helping you to easily modify nutritional needs for older adults.
• UNIQUE! Evidence-based research to support gerontologic nursing care.
• Updated Lab Values for Older Adults provide the necessary statistics for evaluating assessment data and providing appropriate nursing care.
• Evolve Student Resources now include audio pronunciations, animations, and video assessment.

Gerontological Nursing: The Essential Guide to Clinical Practice (2nd Edition)

The second edition of Patricia Tabloski's Gerontological Nursing is a comprehensive, research-based book that will guide nursing students in their care of older patients. The book presents information related to normal and pathological changes of aging, with an emphasis on the critical information that nurses need for assessment, diagnosis, planning and evaluating care outcomes for their older clients. Bolstered by current research in nursing, medicine, sociology and psychology, this book combines information on medical-surgical care for older patients with issues facing the older population. It emphasizes both critical thinking and application of the nursing process to give students the confidence they need to provide the highest level of care. New to this edition are Complementary and Alternative Therapies that help readers understand therapies that can supplement traditional medicine.

Gerontological Nursing: Competencies for Care

Gerontological Nursing: Competencies for Care, Second Edition is a comprehensive and student-accessible text that offers a holistic and inter-disciplinary approach to caring for the elderly. The framework for the text is built around the Core Competencies set forth by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) and the John A. Hartford Foundation Institute for Geriatric Nursing. Building upon their knowledge in prior medical surgical courses, this text gives students the skills and theory needed to provide outstanding care for the growing elderly population. This innovative text is the first of its kind to have over 40 contributing authors from many different disciplines. Some of the key features of the text include chapter outlines, learning objectives, discussion questions, personal reflection boxes, case studies and more!

Study Guide for Foundations and Adult Health Nursing

This book offers a practical, systematic approach to care for a wide range of trauma presentations. It encompasses the whole range of trauma care (including pre-hospital care) and the nurse’s contribution. Chapters are included on the relevant biosciences which are easy to understand and will appeal to all levels of nurse who want to expand their underpinning knowledge. As well as the basic science dimensions of trauma nursing, it also addresses the clinical and psychosocial psychological elements. and offers a structured approach to the management of those who have fallen victim to trauma. Research evidence is used throughout to support the text. The team of multidisciplinary contributors are well-known experts in their fields. Principles and Practice of Trauma Nursing will be a major asset to any nurse working or studying in this varied and exciting field. · This is the first wide-ranging UK based text which will be relevant to UK settings· The multidisciplinary approach makes it highly relevant to current practice and will appeal to a wide audience· Encompasses the whole range of trauma care - many texts focus on in-hospital care only.· Key learning points emphasized to focus reader’s attention and encourage learning· Structured format enables information to be found more readily and makes the book more user-friendly· The wide range of expert contributors make it a credible and authoritative text· Appropriate references/recommended further reading sources will further develop knowledge and learning.

Nursing for Wellness in Older Adults