Toward healthy aging: human needs and nursing response

As the most comprehensive resource on health promotion and maintenance for older adults and their families and caregivers, Toward Healthy Aging, 7th Edition includes the most current information you need to provide effective holistic care, promote healthy lifestyle choices, and address end-of-life issues. Grounded in the core competencies recommended by the AACN in collaboration with the Hartfound Institute for Geriatric Nursing and using Maslows hierarchy of needs, this book includes complete coverage of both common and uncommon conditions in the older adult. Towards Healthy Aging also highlights key aging issues with sections devoted to basic physiologic needs, safety and security, the need to belong, self-esteem, and self-actualization.

PART ONE: FOUNDATIONS OF HEALTHY AGING1. Gerontological Nursing and an Aging Society2. Theories of Aging3. Health and Wellness4. Physiologic Changes with Aging5. Laboratory Values and Diagnostics6. Health Assessment in Gerontological Nursing NEW!PART TWO: BASIC BIOLOGIC NEEDS7. Managing Basic Physiologic Needs8. Biologic Maintenance Needs9. Nutritional Needs NEW!10. Chronic Disease in Late Life11. Pain and Comfort12. Geropharmacology and Psychotherapeutics in Late Life13. The Use of Herbs and Supplements in Late Life14. Sensory Function15. MobilityPART THREE: SAFETY AND SECURITY NEEDS16. Environmental Safety and Security17. Economic, Residential, and Legal Issues18. Frailty, Vulnerability, and Elder MistreatmentPART FOUR: THE NEED TO BELONG19. Intimacy and Sexuality in Late Life20. Relationships, Roles, and TransitionsPART FIVE: SELF-ESTEEM21. Culture, Gender, and Aging22. Nursing and Aging in Rural and Frontier Settings23. Cognition and Caring for Persons with Cognitive Impairment24. Stress, Crises, and Health in Aging25. Emotional Health in Late LifePART SIX: SELF-ACTUALIZATION26. Loss, Death, and Dying in Late Life27. Self-Actualization, Spirituality, and Transcendence