| Description |
xx, 524 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
I. Foundational issues in home care for the older adult. Effectively managing the elderly client in the community / Ann Marie D'Angelo -- Financial, legal, and ethical issues when providing healthcare for elderly clients at home / Frank G. D'Angelo and Ann Marie D'Angelo -- Assessment of the elderly client in the home / Herminia B. Nueva Espana. II. Promoting wellness among elderly home care clients. Ensuring safety for the elderly client at home / Mary Farren -- Promoting and maintaining mobility in the homebound elderly client / Dianna D'Amico-Panomeritakis and Joan Kurtz Sommer -- Maintaining optimum nutrition among elderly clients at home / Vilma Baltazar, Olivia Babol Ibe, and Judith A. Allender -- Enhancing intimacy and sexual health / Mary Ellen McCann. III. Home care management of issues common to elderly clients. Managing medication regimens in elderly clients / Henry Cohen -- Improving communication ability of older adults with hearing and vision loss / Rae Lord Crowe -- Dealing effectively with physically and verbally abusive elderly clients and families / Margaret Walsh -- Caring for the elderly client with urinary and bowel problems / Janice H. Hentgen, Marilyn Oppong-Addae, and Victoria D. Tanico -- Promoting skin integrity and pressure ulcer healing in the elderly client / Maureen Dailey. |
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IV. Home care management of elderly clients with specific medical and surgical diagnoses. Caring for the elderly postoperative client / Sheryl Mara Zang -- Caring for the elderly client with rheumatic disease / Eileen Garry -- Caring for the elderly client with diabetes / Elaine Edelstein -- Caring for the elderly cardiac client / Patrice Kenneally Nicholas, Alexandra Paul-Simon -- Caring for the elderly client with respiratory problems / Andrew J. Devlin -- Caring for the elderly client with neurological deficits / Donna Diamantopulos -- Caring for the elderly psychiatric client / Mark D. Bienstock and Flora R. Bienstock -- Caring for the elderly client with cancer / Bettina Bentley Willis -- Caring for the elderly client with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias / Anne Walsh -- Providing palliative care for the dying elderly client / Vivian Schulkin. |
| Subject |
Geriatric nursing.
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Home nursing.
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Older people -- Home care.
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| Added Author |
Zang, Sheryl Mara.
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Allender, Judith Ann.
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| ISBN |
0781715423 (pbk.) |
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