| ISSN Series: | Toward Healthy Aging: Human Needs & Nursing Response | | Discipline: | Nursing | | Subject Definition: | Geriatric Nursing; Aging; Aged; Health Promotion | | NLM Class: | WY 152 | | LC Class: | RC954 | | Abstract: | Ensure you thoroughly understand the intricate details of providing effective care for adults as they age. Ebersole & Hess' Toward Healthy Aging, 10th Edition is the only comprehensive gerontological nursing text that effectively communicates how to provide holistic care, promote healthy lives, and address end-of-life issues and concerns. Grounded in the core competencies recommended by the AACN in collaboration with the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing, the tenth edition has been extensively revised and updated with shorter, more streamlined chapters and pedagogical features to facilitate learning. It covers the areas of safety and ethical considerations, genetics, communication with the patient and caregiver, promoting health in persons with conditions commonly occurring in later-life world-wide addressing loss and palliative care and much more. |
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