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Older People
Issues and Innovations in Care
- 3rd Edition - June 30, 2009
- Authors: Rhonda Nay, Sally Garratt
- Language: English
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 7 2 9 5 - 7 8 9 8 - 1
This edition captures the underlying new approach in patient centred care and thinking from a multidisciplinary perspective. It highlights the most recent ideas and experiences… Read more
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Request a sales quoteThis edition captures the underlying new approach in patient centred care and thinking from a multidisciplinary perspective. It highlights the most recent ideas and experiences of policy analysts, nurses, doctors, allied health professionals and the consumer experience from both Australia and Internationally. Contemporary research compliments the vignettes of practice and in conjunction with accompanying ‘video’ clips serve to capture the realities of caring for older people in our society.
- Change in focus of health care system with the patient centered care taking precedence and this new philosophy is incorporated into the third edition
- Key focus on issues and innovations in aged care, with evidence-based examples and clinical vignettes included throughout the new edition
- Cases are incorporated into each chapter to re-enforce and highlight many issues faced by nurses and health care workers in aged care
- Written by experts in the field of aged care
- Accompanying DVD, provides video clips of interviews with health practitioners and it highlights innovations to health care demands; issues such as dementia and broader aging issues. These serve to re-enforce the underpinning interdisciplinary and innovative approach of the third edition.
- An Evolve ebooks will be available of this title
Undergraduate and Post Graduate Nursing students as well as students of Medicine, Physiotherapy, Public Health and Occupational Therapy.
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedications
- Copyright
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- Preface
- Contributors
- Reviewers
- Table of Contents
- Section 1: Contextual issues and innovations
- Chapter 1: Care and support for older people: some international reflections
- Chapter 2: Public health for an ageing society
- Chapter 3: Health care in a longevity regime
- Chapter 4: Ageing in rural areas
- Chapter 5: Intellectual disability and ageing
- Chapter 6: Community care for older Australians: issues and future directions
- Section 2: Practice issues and innovations
- Chapter 7: Person-centred care
- Chapter 8: Quality and safety while enhancing rights and respecting risk
- Chapter 9: Supporting family carers: implementing a relational and dynamic approach
- Chapter 10: Older people in acute care
- Chapter 11: Person-centred comprehensive geriatric assessment
- Chapter 12: Supporting independent function and preventing falls
- Chapter 13: Dementia assessment, diagnosis and giving the news
- Chapter 14: Depression and suicide in older people
- Chapter 15: Delirium and older people in acute care
- Chapter 16: Persistent pain in the older person
- Chapter 17: Sexuality and the reluctant health professional
- Chapter 18: Intervention in a situation of elder abuse and neglect
- Chapter 19: End-of-life decision making for older people
- Section 3: Innovations in action
- Chapter 20: Developing ethical clinical governance
- Chapter 21: Measuring and supporting quality of life
- Chapter 22: Environments that enhance dementia care: issues and challenges
- Chapter 23: Assistive technology: opportunities and implications
- Chapter 24: Innovative responses to a changing health care environment
- Chapter 25: Collaboration in ageing research and education
- Chapter 26: Taking a TEAM (Translating Evidence into Aged care Methods) approach to practice change
- Chapter 27: Getting ageing on the agenda - lessons from Alzheimer's Australia
- Chapter 28: Visionary leadership for a 'greying' health care system
- Index
- No. of pages: 432
- Language: English
- Edition: 3
- Published: June 30, 2009
- Imprint: Churchill Livingstone Australia
- eBook ISBN: 9780729578981
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Rhonda Nay
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Gerontic Nursing, Gerontic Nursing Professional Unit and Clinical School Bundoora Extended Care Centre, La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.SG
Sally Garratt
Affiliations and expertise
Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Nursing, LaTrobe University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia