Renowned sociologist Dr. Lawrence-Lightfoot challenges the still-prevailing and anachronistic images of aging by documenting and revealing the ways in which the years between 50 and 75--the third chapter--may, in fact, be the most transformative and generative time in a person's life.
The Fifth Edition of this popular text continues to present - in a clear, concise manner - essential information on nursing care of the elderly. This edition offers updated content and an emphasis on holistic approaches to care. A 'Point to Ponder' feature has been added, challenging students to examine how their own views and experiences ...
This best-selling text on social aging takes a multidisciplinary approach by considering the many factors - biological, psychological, historical, cultural - that affect the way aging individuals experience the world. The text provides a comprehensive, holistic view of aging that considers the implications for an older person's interactions with ...
Intended for adult development and ageing courses in departments of psychology, human development, nursing, social work, education, home economics and gerontology, this text offers a presentation of theory and applications. This edition reflects changing interests and research in the field of ageing. An important change is the introduction of a ...
This is an account of the final moments of our lives - the room, the bed, the companions, the last faces we see, the last voices we hear, our last thoughts. For more than a year, Tracy Kidder spent most of his time at Linda Manor, a nursing home, befriending, eating with, being entertained by 121 different people, each living out life's closing ...
This report, based on research funded by the MacArthur Foundation, points the way toward a healthier, more active senior citizenship and blasts many traditionally held myths about aging. The research conducted by John W. Rowe, M.D., and Robert L. Kahn, Ph.D., indicates that a healthy manner of living--and not genetics--most influences the quality ...
Now in its Fifth Edition, this text provides a comprehensive and wellness-oriented approach to the theory and practice of gerontologic nursing. Organized around the author's unique 'functional consequences theory' of gerontologic nursing, the book explores 'normal' age-related changes and risk factors that often interfere with optimal health and ...
Acclaimed author Carolyn G. Heilbrun (known in mystery circles as Amanda Cross) wasn't planning on living past 70, but since she did she went ahead and wrote a combination memoir and collection of satirical essays about the experience. Her unapologetically frank, scathingly witty prose should serve as an eye-opening antithesis to anyone expecting ...
Harry "Rick" Moody has again presented the key concepts and controversies in an engaging and accessible fashion, supported with carefully chosen adapted readings, resulting in the most captivating introduction to gerontology available today. From the opening chapter, the author encourages the reader to see ageing not as a fixed period of life but ...
This text uses Maslow's "hierarchy of needs" as the conceptual foundation for care of the ageing client. Maslow's theory states that human beings' needs are arranged in a hierarchy: the lower ones being the need for food and shelter, and the higher ones being the need for self-esteem and "self-actualization". The basic crux of the theory is that ...
Halfway through writing this book on aging and death, Ram Dass had a devastating stroke that impaired his speaking and paralyzed the right side of his body. With some help, he was eventually able to finish the book, with a renewed sense of faith in the human spirit. With his typical humility and gentle humor, Dass looks at the process of aging, ...
A renowned medical researcher offers scientific proof that the mind actually improves with age, creating tremendous potential for growth and satisfaction in the later years. "The Golden Years" are being redefined. The fastest-growing segments of the population - those beyond the age of fifty - are no longer content to simply cope with the losses ...
From savoring the "here and now" to preparing for our glorious future in heaven, Livinging Somewhere Betwen Estrogen and Death by conference speaker Barbara Johnson is your wise and witty guide to the joys and challenges of aging gracefully.
The second edition of Patricia Tabloski's Gerontological Nursing is a comprehensive, research-based book that will guide nursing students in their care of older patients. The book presents information related to normal and pathological changes of aging, with an emphasis on the critical information that nurses need for assessment, diagnosis, ...
An introduction to life span motor development. This third edition reflects developments in research findings and has been expanded to present topics from a unifying model of constraints approach. Students should learn not only how to look at the individual but also at the task and the environment to fully understand the factors affecting motor ...
Discover the art of successful aging Henri Matisse's "les betes de la mer" (featured on the cover of this text) is not only one of his most daring works in terms of color and level of abstraction, it's also one of the last works of his brilliant career. Created in his seventies, this stunning collage of colored paper shows that older adulthood ...
The aim of this work is to provide students with a basic understanding of ageing as a social process. Covering the physical problems, inner experiences and instrumental needs of the ageing, the text examines ageing on both an individual and societal level.
This groundbreaking text is the first to take a life course perspective, examining the relationship between the quality of one's life in old age and one's experiences, earlier choices, opportunities, and constraints. The text gives students a broad background for understanding current policy debates through a distinctive chapter entitled "Old Age ...
"Gerontologic Nursing" is best known for its comprehensive coverage of health promotion and basic and complex gerontologic concepts and issues, as well as the most common medical-surgical problems associated with the older adult. The book follows a body systems organization similar to a medical-surgical nursing text. Each chapter follows a ...
Issues in Aging takes an optimistic view of aging and human potential in later life; it presents the most up-to-date facts on aging today, the issues raised by these facts, and the societal and individual responses that will create a successful old age for us all. Whether you are older yourself, have older parents, relatives and friends, or plan ...
The first book to give readers the breadth and depth of scholarship they need to understand the politics of the world economy, "The Politics of International Economic Relations" has been fully updated to reflect the sweeping changes that continue to reshape the international arena. This Seventh Edition strengthens the book's contemporary coverage ...
Mary Ann Anderson's personal, easy-to-read style has made her books staples of LPN/LVN programs. In the new fourth edition of her engaging "Caring for Older Adults Holistically", she gives her text a complete overhaul to more comprehensively address the needs of a burgeoning population of elderly who require a wide range of care from LPN/LVNs. All ...
BASIC GERIATRIC NURSING presents the theories and concepts of aging, the physiologic and psychosocial changes and problems associated with the process, and appropriate nursing interventions. It includes care plans that detail NANDA diagnoses and expected outcomes. Nursing interventions are grouped according to health care settings. Several new ...
For junior/senior-level courses in Gerontology or the Sociology of Aging in departments of sociology and nursing. This sound introductory text utilizes symbolic interactions as a basic theoretical perspective to explain all pertinent aspects and behavioral problems associated with the aging process. An interdisciplinary approach helps convey ...
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