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Redfern's Nursing Older People

  • 5 Edición - 20 de abril de 2023
  • Última edición
  • Editores: Fiona M. Ross, Ruth Harris, Joanne M. Fitzpatrick, Clare Abley
  • Idioma: Inglés

Redfern’s Nursing Older People provides accessible, evidence-based information for nurses, care assistants and other health professionals wanting to improve the quality of heal… Leer más

Descripción

Redfern’s Nursing Older People provides accessible, evidence-based information for nurses, care assistants and other health professionals wanting to improve the quality of health and social care for older people.

Republished for the first time since 2006, this fifth edition has been comprehensively revised and rewritten by a large team of expert contributors, while preserving the person-centred spirit of earlier editions. It applies best evidence in straightforward and practical ways to the demographic, physical, psychological, social and emotional challenges of ageing, with a focus on supporting independence and health maintenance.

With new contributions covering emerging challenges such as understanding frailty and the use of digital technology, and the themes of diversity, service-user perspectives and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic woven throughout, Redfern’s Nursing Older People is essential reading to help nurses shape practice, improve outcomes and promote opportunities for ageing well.

Puntos claves

  • Written by a team of 68 specialists and experts drawn from the fields of nursing, social sciences, gerontology and healthcare practice
  • Covers the latest evidence, policy and nursing practice
  • Focus on nursing-led solutions for improving activities of daily living, independence and preventing common problems of ageing
  • Accessible to all, with stories, case studies and lived experience to bring material to life
  • Summaries and learning points support learning around complex problems
  • Emphasis on countering ageism using images and wider literature where appropriate

Índice

SECTION 1 Ageing and Old Age

1. Introduction

2. What Is Old Age?

3. Demographic and Epidemiological Trends in Ageing

4. The Psychology of Human Ageing

5. The Biology of Human Ageing

6. Nursing the Older Person Living With Frailty

SECTION 2 People, Policy and the Place of Care

7. Policy Context of Nursing in Health and Social Care

8. Public Health: Healthy Ageing and Well-Being

9. Health and Social Care for Older People in the Community

10. Nursing Older People in Hospital

11. Care Home Nursing Is ‘Maxi-Nursing’: The Value and Contribution of Nursing Older People in Long-Term Care Settings

12. Meeting the Health Needs of Older People Experiencing Homelessness and Other Inclusion Health Groups

13. Informal, Unpaid Carers

14. Abuse and Safeguarding

SECTION 3 Independence and Maintaining Function

15. Communication Challenges and Skills

16. Older People and Hearing

17. Older People’s Eye Health

18. Promoting Safe Mobility for Older People

19. Care of the Foot

20. Breathing

21. Eating and Drinking

22. Bladder and Bowel Health

23. Infection Prevention and Control and Thermoregulation in Older People

24. Maintaining Healthy Skin

25. Sleep and Rest

26. Sexuality and Relationships in Later Life

27. Pain and Older People

28. Delirium: Diagnosis, Management and Care for Older People

29. Care of the Person Living With Dementia

30. Depression in Older People

31. Medicine Management

32. Alcohol Misuse and Ageing

33. Nursing Older People With Intellectual Disabilities

34. End-of-Life Care: Dying, Bereavement and Loss

35. The Role of Technology and Digital Tools in the Care and Support of Older People

SECTION 4 Postscript: New Directions and Reflections on Caring for Older People

36. New Directions and Reflections on Caring for Older People

Detalles del producto

  • Edición: 5
  • Última edición
  • Publicado: 5 de mayo de 2023
  • Idioma: Inglés

Sobre los editores

FR

Fiona M. Ross

Afiliaciones y experiencia
Professor Emerita Health and Social Care, Kingston University. UK

RH

Ruth Harris

Afiliaciones y experiencia
Professor of Health Care for Older Adults, Care for Long Term Conditions Research Division, Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care, King's College London, UK

JF

Joanne M. Fitzpatrick

Afiliaciones y experiencia
Reader in Older People’s Healthcare, Care for Long Term Conditions Research Division, Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care, King's College London, UK

CA

Clare Abley

BSc (Hons) MSc PhD RGN PGDL PGCert Dementia Studies
Afiliaciones y experiencia
Nurse Consultant Vulnerable Older Adults, The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust & Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, Institute of Population and Health Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK