Growth and Development Across the Lifespan
A Health Promotion Focus
- 4th Edition - February 1, 2027
- Latest edition
- Authors: Kimberly Townsend Little, Eve Fleck
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 3 5 1 1 1 - 2
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 3 5 1 1 2 - 9
Promote healthy behaviors and healthy lifestyles throughout the life cycle! Growth and Development Across the Lifespan helps you plan and implement appropriate care for patients at… Read more
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Promote healthy behaviors and healthy lifestyles throughout the life cycle! Growth and Development Across the Lifespan 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 Kimberly Little and Eve Fleck, this book shows how a knowledge of normal growth and aberrations can be used to design individual approaches to patient care.
• Healthy People 2030 goals and objectives are incorporated throughout the book. • 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 programs (total enrollments of 58,571 per 2020 IPEDS data)
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 Index Evolve/QR Code Content TOC: Appendix A: Child, Adolescent, and Adult Immunization Schedules Appendix B: Multilingual Glossary of Symptoms Glossary Bibliography
- Edition: 4
- Latest edition
- Published: February 1, 2027
- Language: English
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Kimberly Townsend Little
Affiliations and expertise
Former Chair of the Graduate Nursing Program at Liberty UniversityEF
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.