Main description:

This text addresses basic competencies by focusing on clinical practice and presenting research-based ""best practices"" for effective care of older adults in all settings. While there are a number of excellent texts aimed at this market, Wallace's is more clinical and less theoretical, more concise to fit the length of the typical course, and it provides ""need-to-know vs. nice-to-know"" information.It provides essential clinical information needed to care for older adults. The content is designed to fit into a one-semester course. It also offers more clinical, and less theoretical, content than longer competing texts.

Contents:

Chapter 1: The Graying of America; A. Issues of Aging; a. Government-Funded Healthcare; B. Medical Concerns; C. Ageism - Facts and Myths of Aging; a. Myths; b. Ageism; D. Ethnogeriatrics and Healthcare; a. Cultural Competence; E. Gerontological Nursing; F. Theories of Aging; a. Biological Theories; b. Psychological Theories; c. Moral/spiritual Theories; d. Sociological Theories; Chapter 2: The Health Care Delivery System.