Toward healthy aging : human needs and nursing response /
Priscilla Ebersole, Patricia Hess.
- 5th edition.
- St. Louis : Mosby, c1998.
- xviii, 1132 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
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