
Growth and Development Across the Lifespan
A Health Promotion Focus
- 3rd Edition - August 14, 2021
- Imprint: Saunders
- Authors: Gloria Leifer, Eve Fleck
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 0 9 4 0 - 5
- LooseLeaf ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 1 1 1 5 - 0
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 0 9 4 3 - 6
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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Request a sales quotePromote 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.
- 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.
Students in LPN/LVN (43,952 completions*) and Diploma/ADN-level programs (83,955 completions*)
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
- Edition: 3
- Published: August 14, 2021
- Imprint: Saunders
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323809405
- LooseLeaf ISBN: 9780443111150
- eBook ISBN: 9780323809436
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