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Health needs of the elderly / Gill Garrett.

By: Garrett, Gill.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Essentials of nursing.Publisher: London : MacMillan, 1987Edition: 2nd ed.Description: xii, 128 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm + pbk.ISBN: 0333440773.Subject(s): Older people -- Care | Geriatric nursingDDC classification: 362.6
Contents:
Part 1: Ageing -- The reality of ageing -- The physiology of ageing -- The psychology of ageing -- Sociological aspects of ageing -- Demographic and economic aspects of ageing -- Part 2: Approaches to ageing: Evolution of care -- Family and welfare approach -- Health service approach -- Part 3: Sharing the caring -- Community care -- Hospital provision -- Nursing approach -- Part 4: Individualised care -- Nursing process -- Illness in the elderly -- Surgery and the elderly -- Drugs and the elderly -- Dying and death -- Part 5: Conclusion: a future for old age -- Towards the twenty-first century.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
General Lending MTU Bishopstown Library Lending 362.6 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00075121
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Since the first edition of this book was published the population profile for the elderly has continued to swell. How many elderly people are there? Where are they now? How well off are they? The new edition answers these and many more key questions and takes a fresh look at approaches to planning future health care. The original text has been updated throughout and there are suggestions for additional reading at the end of each chapter. The future of our ageing society is considered in depth, alongside the necessity to prepare nurses to meet the inevitable future health needs of the elderly.

Previous ed.: 1983.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1: Ageing -- The reality of ageing -- The physiology of ageing -- The psychology of ageing -- Sociological aspects of ageing -- Demographic and economic aspects of ageing -- Part 2: Approaches to ageing: Evolution of care -- Family and welfare approach -- Health service approach -- Part 3: Sharing the caring -- Community care -- Hospital provision -- Nursing approach -- Part 4: Individualised care -- Nursing process -- Illness in the elderly -- Surgery and the elderly -- Drugs and the elderly -- Dying and death -- Part 5: Conclusion: a future for old age -- Towards the twenty-first century.

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