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Growth and Development Across the Lifespan

A Health Promotion Focus

  • 3rd Edition - August 14, 2021
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Gloria Leifer, Eve Fleck
  • Language: English

Promote healthy behaviors and healthy lifestyles throughout the life cycle! Growth and Development Across the Lifespan, 3rd Edition helps you plan and implement appropria… Read more

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Promote healthy behaviors and healthy lifestyles throughout the life cycle! Growth and Development Across the Lifespan, 3rd Edition helps you plan and implement appropriate care for patients at each age and stage of life. Explaining concepts of physical, cognitive, social, and personality development, this text provides strategies for improving patient health and quality of life for each age group. Healthy People 2030 objectives are used to set a framework for positive health behaviors. From noted educators and authors Gloria Leifer and Eve Fleck, this book shows how a knowledge of normal growth and aberrations can be used to design individual approaches to patient care.

Key features

  • Patient teaching strategies are provided for every development stage, providing age-appropriate patient education tips
  • Cultural influences on health are included in a separate Cultural Considerations in Health Care chapter and in special boxes throughout the text
  • Lifespan Considerations boxes focus on issues specific to development stages
  • Health Promotion boxes highlight critical health issues related to each life stage
  • Safety Alert boxes focus on key safety issues for each life stage
  • Critical Thinking　scenarios and questions appear at the end of each chapter to help you consider all variables when planning care across the lifespan
  • Learning features include objectives, key terms, key points, and review questions in each chapter

Readership

Students in LPN/LVN and Diploma/ADN-level programs

Table of contents

1. Healthy People 2030

2. Government Influences on Health Care

3. Cultural Considerations Across the Lifespan and in Health and Illness

4. The Influence of Family on Developing a Lifestyle

5. Theories of Development

6. Prenatal Influences on Healthy Development

7. The Infant

8. Early Childhood

9. Middle Childhood

10. Adolescence

11. Young Adulthood

12. Middle Adulthood

13. Late Adulthood

14. Advanced Old-Age and Geriatrics

15. Planning for the End of Life

16. Loss, Grief, and Bereavement
Appendix A: Child, Adolescent, and Adult Immunization Schedules
Appendix B: Multilingual Glossary of Symptoms
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

Product details

  • Edition: 3
  • Latest edition
  • Published: October 10, 2022
  • Language: English

About the authors

GL

Gloria Leifer

Gloria Leifer, MA, RN, CNE, is a professor of obstetric and pediatric nursing at Riverside City College in Riverside, California. Gloria has been the lead author on this title for all eight editions.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Obstetric and Pediatric Nursing, Riverside City College, Riverside, California, USA

EF

Eve Fleck

Eve Fleck, MS, ACE GFI, ACE PT, NASM CPT, is a lecturer in the College of Health and Human Development, teaching physiology of aging and health, at California State University, Northridge.
Affiliations and expertise
Lecturer, College of Health and Human Development, California State University, Northridge, Los Angeles, California, USA