Care of Older Adults
A Strengths-based Approach

Written by internationally renowned authors, this is a comprehensive introduction to aged care for the nursing profession in clinical practice.

Wendy Moyle (Author), Deborah Parker (Author), Marguerite Bramble (Author)

9781107625457, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 19 September 2014

224 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm, 0.35 kg

Care of Older Adults is a comprehensive introduction to aged care for the nursing profession in clinical practice. By taking a strengths-based approach, the book encourages practice with a focus on individuals' potential and capacities rather than their limits. Theories of ageing are linked with the older individual's strengths to ensure the text is well framed from an evidence base, as well as a clinical orientation. The book presents the topic from a healthy ageing perspective through to chronic illness, frailty and end of life. Each chapter includes discussion and reflective questions, and concludes with a list of key points summarising the central content. Case studies combine evidence-based knowledge with practical examples in a number of aged-care settings. Written by internationally renowned authors with extensive practical experience in aged care, Care of Older Adults provides undergraduate students in Australia and New Zealand with local content with a nursing focus.

Part I. Ageing and Gerontology: 1. What is ageing?
2. The demographics and epidemiology of ageing in the context of the changing needs of older adults
3. Principles of strengths-based care and other nursing models
4. Nursing older people across aged care settings: interdisciplinary and intradisciplinary approaches
5. Evidence-based nursing interventions in primary care: a strengths-based approach
Part II. Chronicity and Ageing: 6. Changing disease patterns
7. Mental health and ageing
8. The role of family in care of older people
9. Evidence-based nursing interventions: fostering quality of life
Part III. End of Life Care: 10. Palliative care in Australia and New Zealand: 11. Advance care planning for the frail older adult
12. A strengths-based palliative approach for the frail older
adult living in residential aged care
13. Evidence-based nursing interventions: a good death and fostering pain relief.

Subject Areas: Nursing [MQC]