Product Description

The fourth edition of this highly successful text is an ideal resource for practitioners from all disciplines working in a wide range of care settings for older people. It conveys the depth of knowledge needed to develop the complex and sometimes delicate skills required for nursing interventions and support of older people. It takes an evidence-based and person-centred approach to understanding and meeting older people's needs as well as problems that nurses and other practitioners deal with every day, such as pain, immobility, breathlessness, eating and drinking.

This edition has been extensively rewritten by subject experts from nursing, social work, physiotherapy, gerontology and sociology. The 34 chapters are organised in four sections, which cover:

. Ageing and old age
. Policy Change and the Contexts of Care
. Nursing Older People: independence, autonomy and self-fulfilment
. Current issues and reflections on caring for older people.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #385798 in Books
• Published on: 2005-09-22
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 790 pages

Customer Reviews

Invaluable for the student nurse
With an increasingly ageing population it is amazing that no-one has written this before!. An excellent book for the student nurse trying to come to first principles within nursing or for the ward as a general reference book for staff to dip in and out of. I would recommend it to anyone for NVQ exams, pre reg, or post reg as a good standard text to cover all areas in sufficent detail without being bogged down in too much information. BUY IT.