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Gerontology
Healthy Aging: Principles and Clinical Practice for Clinicians
Virginia Burggraf
978-1-4511-9104-2 • March 2014 • Softbound • 7” x 9” • 680 pp. • 46 Illus. • 116Tables
Meet the challenges of caring for today’s fastest-growing health care
population.
Older adults are among the fastest growing age groups, and according
to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, it is anticipated
that more than 37 million people in this group will manage more than
1 chronic condition or related disability by 2030, including diabetes
mellitus, arthritis, congestive heart failure, and dementia.
Healthy Aging: Principles and Clinical Practice for Clinicians
,
provides a fresh perspective and evidence-based approach for helping
older adults maintain healthy lifestyles, adapt to normal age-related
changes, and manage acute and chronic illnesses. This brand new text,
divided into chronic illness both physical and emotional, covers only
the most common illnesses of older adults and incorporates the holistic
framework that comprises geriatric care in partnership with physicians,
gerontologists and nurses while addressing the Healthy People 2020
objectives that all practitioners must incorporate into their practice.
With so many factors affecting the health, function, and quality of life
of older adults, the goal of this text is to provide clinicians with the tools
they need to improve the health, function, and quality of life of older
adults. Taking a cross-functional approach to the graying of America,
Healthy Aging covers important topics clinicians regularly encounter
including promoting a healthy lifestyle, preventative care, assessment,
nutrition, medication, sexuality, caregiving, abuse, and end-of-life care.
Table of Contents
Section I:
Chronic Illness
Ch. 1: Advanced Practice for Geriatric
Clinicians
Ch. 2: Healthy People 2020 Implications
for Practice
Ch. 3: Comprehensive Geriatric Assessments
Ch. 4: Heart Disease
Ch. 5: Skin Cancers
Ch. 6: GI
Ch. 7: Neurological Disorders (Stroke &
Parkinson’s)
Ch. 8: Pulmonary Disease
Ch. 9: Diabetes
Ch. 10: Nutrition and the Older Adult
Ch. 11: Exercise
Ch. 12: Osteoporosis
Ch. 13: Arthritis, Osteoarthritis, Gout
& Pain
Ch. 14: Kidney Disease
Ch. 15: Septicemia & Infection
Ch. 16: Anemia &Leukemia
Ch. 17: Chronic Wounds
Ch. 18: Medications Safety in the Older
Adult
Section II:
Mental Health
Ch. 19: Assessment & Diagnostic Evaluation
Ch. 20: Psychosocial Challenges
Ch. 21: Alcoholism
Ch. 22: Substance Abuse
Ch. 23: Dementia
Ch. 24: Bipolar Disorder
Ch. 25: Schizophrenia
Ch. 26: Depression
Ch. 27: Suicide
Ch. 28: Anxiety Disorders
Ch. 29: End of Life