Gerontology

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.

Gerontological Nursing

Gerontological Nursing (Gerontological Nursing ( Eliopoulos))

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.

Gerontological Nursing and Healthy Aging

Gerontological Nursing & Healthy Aging provides thorough coverage of promoting healthy aging when caring for older adults. The intent throughout the book is to facilitate the healthiest adaptation possible for any older adult, regardless of the situation and disease process. The majority of the book is devoted to discussing the significant problems that may occur and methods that nurses may use to make these problems more bearable, to solve some, and to help the elder find the best possible resolution towards healthy aging.

• Incorporates healthy aging strategies to maximize the healthiest behaviors of clients/patients with dementia and their caregivers.
• Disease processes are discussed in the context of healthy adaptation, nursing support & responsibilities to help the reader gain an understanding of their client's 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 the nurse understand these important considerations in caring for older adults.
• Each chapter provides a consistent organization including learning objectives, research & study questions/activities.
• Assessment guidelines are incorporated throughout as tables, boxes, and forms to provide useful tools for practice.
• Activities and discussion questions at the end of every chapter provide situations to expand student knowledge and understanding.
• Appendices and resource lists assist in further exploration of material.

• Text correlates with federal guidelines for Healthy People 2010 to assist the student in integrating knowledge about healthy aging considerations.
• Expanded content on pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic pain management in Chapter 15 and integrated within appropriate content sections.
• Completely revised Culture and Aging chapter includes discussions of health disparities and working with interpreters to help identify nursing care interventions appropriate for ethnic elders.
• New author team with Theris Touhy and Kathleen Jett adds a wealth of experience related to gerontological nursing education and research.

Eldercare for Dummies

Cope with legal, financial, and medical issues

Minimize anxiety and stress and make the later years golden

Need help caring for an elderly loved one? This sensitive, reassuring guide provides strategies for assessing older persons' needs, arranging for care, ensuring their safety, and enhancing quality of life - all while respecting their dignity. You'll see how to manage physical disabilities and chronic health problems, evaluate nursing homes, and help elders control their destinies.

The Dummies Way

• Explanations in plain English
• "Get in, get out" information
• Icons and other navigational aids
• Tear-out cheat sheet
• Top ten lists
• A dash of humor and fun

Nursing for Wellness in Older Adults

Adult Health Nursing

Part of the popular LPN Threads series, Adult Health Nursing provides all of the medical-surgical and basic anatomy and physiology content LPN/LVN students need to know as they prepare for practice. Designed to be used in conjunction with Foundations on Nursing, by the same author team, together these two full-color texts provide complete coverage of all of the content needed in an LPN/LVN curriculum.

• Overview of Anatomy and Physiology begins all body systems chapters and Introduction to Anatomy and Physiology chapter provides a clear, basic understanding of the A&P that LPN/LVNs need to know.
• Objectives are separated into Anatomy & Physiology and Medical-Surgical categories.
• Assessment is separated into Subjective and Objective Data.
• Nursing Process is applied to the discussion of disorders and appears in a summary form at the end of each chapter.
• Nursing Care Plans, presented in a case-study format, emphasize patient goals and outcomes and include Critical Thinking Questions at the end of each care plan.
• Nursing Diagnosis boxes, screened and highlighted in the text, include nursing diagnoses for specific disorders paired with the appropriate nursing interventions.
• Skills are presented in a step-by-step format with clearly defined nursing actions and rationales.
• Clinical Pathways are included to reflect collaborative care.
• Patient Teaching boxes include post-hospital discharge guidelines and disease prevention instructions with a strong focus on three-way communication among the nurse, patient, and family members.
• Cultural and Ethnic Considerations boxes include a variety of cultural scenarios that nurses may face when providing health care.
• Older Adult Considerations boxes provide age-specific information for the care of the aging population, which is often the primary focus of the LPN/LVN nurse.
• Home Health Considerations boxes discuss issues facing patients and their caregivers in the home setting.
• Unique Complementary and Alternative Therapy boxes, in nearly every chapter, provide a breakdown of specific therapies, along with precautions and possible side effects.
• Unique Therapeutic Dialogue boxes illustrates communication strategies through real-life examples of nurse-patient dialogue.
• Unique Medication Tables are meticulously detailed and provide quick access to action, dosage, precautions, and nursing considerations for commonly used drugs.

• New Companion CD, bound in every text, includes an audio glossary, 170 NCLEX® exam-style multiple-choice and alternate item review questions, 15 animations, 15 video clips, 15 audio clips, a fluids & electrolytes module, Body Spectrum - an electronic anatomy coloring book, and Spanish-English phrases.
• Unique Health Promotion Considerations boxes, a LPN thread, highlights information on wellness and disease prevention, including infection control, diet, and pregnancy.
• Safety Considerations boxes, a LPN thread, highlights safety issues in a variety of settings to stress the importance of maintaining safety to protect patients, families, health care providers, and the public from the accidental spread of diseases.
• New content added on blood tests for congestive heart failure (BNP), treatment modalities in the chapter on Care of the Patient with HIV/AIDS, new diabetes medications, revised hepatitis classifications, sacroneuro stimulators for urinary incontinence, and more.
• Two new appendices include JCAHO Lists of Dangerous Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Symbols; and Laboratory Reference Values.

The Best Friends Approach to Alzheimer's Care

Because Alzheimer's disease affects each person differently, caregivers continue to search for methods that can meet diverse needs. The Best Friends Approach to Alzheimer's Care offers an uplifting, effective method for the care of people with Alzheimer's disease. This comprehensive program uses positive strategies that build on older adults' remaining strengths and abilities. It's easy to learn and simple to implement. The basic elements found in any good friendship -- respect, empathy, support, trust, humor--are what give the Best Friends model the flexibility to adapt to individuals at all points along the ever-changing continuum of the disease process. Whether dealing with confusion, frustration, anxiety, anger, or other challenges, caregivers will find in this volume the specific tools they need to solve problems and improve care recipients' behavior -- compassionately and effectively. Learn how to ensure the highest quality of life for people with Alzheimer's disease, not just by preventing catastrophic episodes but by making every day consistently reassuring, enjoyable, and secure.

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.