The nursing process in later maturity / Ruth Beckmann Murray, M. Marilyn Wilson Huelskoetter, Dorothy Lueckerath O'Driscoll.

Contents;

Unit I. The person in later maturity: Basic nursing practice
1. Introduction to the person in later maturity
2. Nursing practice in later maturity
3. The helping relationship with nurse and elderly client
4. Group work with the person in later maturity

Unit II. Society and later maturity: Implications for nursing process
5. Sociocultural influences on the person in later maturity
6. Social stresses and their management in later maturity
7. Community resources for the person/family in later maturity
8. Legal issues affecting the person in later maturity

Unit III. Normal aging changes in later maturity: Implications for nursing process
9. Physical changes in later maturity
10. Cognitive characteristics in later maturity
11. Emotional development in later maturity
12. Family relationships in later maturity
13. Crisis in later maturity: Loss and death
14. Moral and spiritual development in later maturity

Unit IV. Physical illness in later maturity: Related nursing process
15. Problems of mobility in later maturity
16. Problems of neuroregulation and sensory perception in later maturity
17. Problems of transporting and exchanging oxygen and nutrients in later maturity
18. Problems of cell proliferation and pain in later maturity
19. Problems of chemical regulatory balance in later maturity

Unit V. Emotional illness in later maturity: Related nursing process
20. Cognitive impairment in later maturity
21. Depression and suicidal tendencies in later maturity
22. Withdrawal and the schizophrenic syndrome in later maturity
23. Suspicion and the paranoid process in later maturity

Includes bibliographies and index.