Toward healthy aging : human needs and nursing response / Priscilla Ebersole, Patricia Hess.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents
Part One: THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS
Chapter 1. Aging Today
Chapter 2. Theories of Aging
Chapter 3. Health and Wellness
Chapter 4. Age-Related Changes
Chapter 5. Laboratory Values and Implications for the Aged

Part Two: BASIC BIOLOGIC NEEDS
Chapter 6. Managing Basic Physiologic Needs
Chapter 7. Biologic Maintenance Needs
Chapter 8· Common Chronic Problems and the Management
Chapter 9· Comfort and Pain Management
Chapter 10. Pharmacology and Drug Use
Chapter 11· Mobility
Chapter 12· Maximizing Sensory Function

Part Three: SAFETY AND SECURITY NEEDS
Chapter 13· Environmental Safety and Security
Chapter 14· Health Care, Economic, and Legal Concerns of the Aged
Chapter 15· Frailty, Vulnerability and Neglect

Part Four: THE NEED TO BELONG
Chapter 16· Intimacy, Sexuality, and Aging
Chapter 17· Relationships and Their Significance
Chapter 18· Isolation, Loneliness, Alienation, and Stigmatization

Part Five: SELF-ESTEEM
Chapter 19. Crisis and Stress Management
Chapter 20. Transitions and Role Changes
Chapter 21. Mental Health and Mental Disorders
Chapter 22. Cognition: Function and Dysfunction in Old Age
Chapter 23. Psychotropic Drug Management
Chapter 24. Gender, Cohort, and Culture

Part Six: SELF-ACTUALIZATION
Chapter 25. Actualizing the Self
Chapter 26. Death, Dying and Grief
Chapter 27. Transcendence, Spirituality, and Legacies
Chapter 28. The Professionalization of Gerontic Nursing