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Overview
Overview
- Chapter on assessing the older adult opens the Body Systems section, covering all normal age-related changes, including changes to lab values
- Section on long-term care expanded to address the advances in the field as well as growing concerns, such as homelessness
- Chapters on death and dying revised to focus on end-of-life and palliative care
- Chapter on male and female genitourinary systems includes a review of reproductive system health
- Addresses both traditional and nontraditional settings of nursing care, yet retains its primary focus on acute care, the setting where most nurses are likely to encounter the older patient
- Tables within body system chapters summarize normal aging changes to each system and their nursing implications
- Expanded coverage for dementias, theories of aging, and transcultural considerations in aging
- Care plans based on NANDA-approved diagnoses
- Abstracts of recent research on health problems covered, as well as patient teaching guides and resource lists
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Author: Beare, Patricia Gauntlett
- ISBN: 9780803611658
- Condition: Used
- Dimensions: 10.82 x 0.83
- Number Of Pages: 387
- Publication Year: 2004