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Third edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xxxi, 815 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
P -- Pain Assessment Instruments -- Palliative Care -- Parkinsonism -- Participant-Directed Care -- Patient / Provider Relationships -- Patient Safety -- Pensions and Financing Retirement -- Peripheral Arterial Disease -- Personality Disorders in the Elderly -- Pet Ownership Among Older Adults -- Pharmacists -- Physical and Mental Health Needs of Older LGBT Adults -- Physical Therapists -- Physical Therapy Services -- Physician-Assisted Suicide, Physician Aid in Dying, and Euthanasia -- Physician Competence in Aging -- Pioneer Network -- Podiatric Medicine -- Polypharmacy -- Polypharmacy: Drug / Drug Interactions -- Post-Acute Care -- Poverty -- Pressure Ulcer Prevention and Treatment -- Pressure Ulcer Risk Assessment -- Primary Palliative Care -- Prison-Residing Elders -- Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) -- Psychological/Mental Status Assessment -- Psychology -- Psychosis in Late Life -- Psychotropic Medication Use in Nursing Homes -- Q -- Quality-of-Life Assessment -- R -- Rehabilitation -- Relocation Stress -- Respite Care -- Restraints -- Retirement -- Rheumatoid Arthritis -- Risk Assessment and Identification -- Rural Elderly -- S -- Satisfaction Measurement -- Self-Rated Health -- Senior Centers -- Senior Hunger -- Senior Service Line -- Sexual Health -- Signage -- Skin Issues: Bruises and Discoloration -- Skin Tears -- Sleep Disorders -- Social Isolation -- Social Security -- Social Supports (Formal and Informal) -- Speech-Language Pathologists -- Spirituality -- Staff Development -- Subcontinental Elders -- Substitute Decision Making -- Suicide in Late Life -- Sundowning -- Support Groups -- Surgery in the Elderly -- Swallowing Disorders and Aspiration -- T -- Tax Policy -- Technology -- Telehealth -- Therapeutic Recreation Specialists and Recreation(al) Therapists -- Thyroid Disease in Older Adults -- Transitional Care -- Transportation -- Treatments for Cognitive Impairment in Dementia -- U -- Undue Influence Assessment in Elder Care -- Urinary Incontinence Assessment -- Urinary Tract Infections -- V -- Validation Therapy -- Vascular and Lewy Body Dementias -- Veterans and Veteran Health -- Vision Changes and Care -- Volunteerism -- W -- Walking Aids, Mobility Devices, and Amputation -- Wandering and Elopement -- X -- Xerostomia. |
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I -- Iatrogenesis -- Immigrant Elders -- Immunization -- Information Technology -- Injury and Trauma -- Institutional Mistreatment: Abuse and Neglect -- Institutionalization -- Integumentary System -- Interdisciplinary Teams -- Intergenerational Care -- International Psychogeriatric Association -- Interviewing -- J -- Joint Replacement -- L -- Leisure Programs -- Life Events -- Life Review -- Long-Term Care Policy -- Low Vision -- M -- Meals On Wheels -- Measurement -- Measuring Physical Function -- Medicaid -- Medicare -- Medication Adherence -- Mental Capacity Assessment -- Mental Health Services -- Mild Cognitive Impairment -- Money Management -- Morbidity Compression -- Multidimensional Functional Assessment: Overview -- N -- National Asian Pacific Center on Aging -- National Consumer Voice for Quality Long-Term Care -- National Council on Aging -- National Gerontological Nursing Association -- National Indian Council on Aging -- National Institute on Aging -- National Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program -- Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities (NORCs) -- Neuropsychological Assessment -- Neuropsychologists -- Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus -- Nurses Improving Care of Healthsystem Elders (NICHE) -- Nursing Home Managed Care -- Nursing Home Reform Act -- Nursing Homes -- Nutritionists -- O -- Obesity -- Occupational Therapists -- Occupational Therapy Assessment and Evaluation -- Older Americans Act -- Oral Health Assessment -- Osteoarthritis -- Osteoporosis -- Over-the-Counter Drugs and Self-Medication. |
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D -- Daytime Sleepiness -- Death and Dying -- Deconditioning Prevention -- Dehydration -- Delirium -- Dementia: Special Care Units -- Demography -- Dentures -- Depression in Dementia -- Depression Measurement Instruments -- Diabetes: Management -- Diabetes: Overview -- Diarrhea in Elderly -- Discharge Planning -- Dizziness -- Driving -- Dyspnea (Shortness of Breath) -- E -- Eating and Feeding Behaviors: Problems in Dementia -- Elder Mistreatment: Overview -- Elder Neglect -- Elderspeak -- Emergency Department Care -- Employment -- Environmental Modifications: Home -- Environmental Modifications: Shared Residential Settings -- Ergonomics -- Euthanasia -- Evidence-Based Health Care -- Exercise -- Eye Care Providers -- F -- Falls Prevention -- Family Care for Elders With Dementia -- Family Care for Frail Elders -- Fatigue -- Feeding: Non-Oral -- Financial Abuse -- Foot Problems -- Fractures -- Future of Care -- G -- Gait Assessment Instruments -- Gait Disturbances -- Gastrointestinal Bleed -- Gastrointestinal Diseases -- Geriatric Consultation -- Geriatric Dentistry: Clinical Aspects -- Geriatric Evaluation and Management Units -- Geriatric Resource Nurse -- Geriatrician -- Gerontological Advanced Practice Nurses Association -- Gerontological Social Workers -- Gerontological Society of America -- Grandparents as Family Caregivers -- Green House -- Guardianship and Conservatorship -- H -- Hartford Institute Geriatric Nursing Research Scholars Program -- Headache -- Health Promotion Screening -- Hearing Aids -- Hearing Impairment -- Hispanic and Latino Elders -- HIV and AIDS -- HIV, AIDS, and Aging -- Home Health Care -- Homeless Elders -- Hospice -- Hospital-Based Services -- Hospital Elder Life Program (HELP) -- Hypertension. |
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Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- List of Entries -- A -- AARP (Previously the American Association of Retired Persons) -- Access to Care -- Access to Hospice Care -- Activities of Daily Living -- Acute Care for Elders -- Adult Day Services -- Adult Foster Care Homes -- Adult Protective Services -- Advance Directives -- Advanced Practice Nursing -- Affordable Health Care for the Elderly -- African Americans and Health Care Disparities -- Ageism -- Aging Agencies: City and County Level -- Aging Agencies: Federal Level -- Aging Agencies: State Level -- Alternative and Complementary Medicine -- Alzheimer's Association -- AMDA -- Dedicated to Long Term Care Medicine -- American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging -- American Federation for Aging Research -- American Geriatrics Society -- American Health Care Association -- American Indian Elders -- American Nurses Association -- American Society on Aging -- Americans with Disabilities Act -- Anemia -- Animal-Assisted Health Care -- Anxiety Disorders, Traumatic and Stressor-Related Disorders, and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders in Late Life -- Aortic Stenosis -- Asian American and Pacific Islander Elders -- Assessing Needs of Family Caregivers -- Assisted Living -- Assistive Devices -- Assistive Technology -- Association for Gerontology in Higher Education -- Autonomy -- B -- Balance -- Behavioral Expressions of Distress in People Living With Dementia -- Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia -- Bereavement -- Bipolar Affective Disorder -- Building Academic Geriatric Nursing Capacity Awards Program -- C -- Cancer Treatment -- Care Management -- Caregiver Burden -- Caregiver Burnout -- Caregiver Support Groups -- Caregiving Relationships -- Centenarians -- Challenges of Hospital Care: Preventable Hospitalization, Complex Care Transitions, and Rehospitalization -- Chronic Illness -- Clinical Pathways -- Coalition of Geriatric Nursing Organizations (CGNO) -- Cognitive Changes in Aging -- Cognitive Instruments -- Communication Issues for Practitioners -- Community Assessment -- Competency and Capacity -- Constipation in the Elderly -- Continuing Care Retirement Communities -- Contractures -- Coping With Chronic Illness -- Creativity -- Crime Victimization -- Cultural Assessment -- Cultural Competence and Aging -- Culture Change. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Geriatric nursing -- Encyclopedias.
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Geriatric nursing. |
| Genre/Form |
Encyclopedias.
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Older people -- Care -- United States -- Encyclopedias.
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Older people -- Care. |
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United States. |
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Older people -- Care -- Canada -- Encyclopedias.
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Canada. |
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Older people -- Medical care -- United States -- Encyclopedias.
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Older people -- Medical care. |
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Older people -- Medical care -- Canada -- Encyclopedias.
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Caregivers -- United States -- Encyclopedias.
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Caregivers. |
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Caregivers -- Canada -- Encyclopedias.
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Geriatrics -- United States -- Encyclopedias.
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Geriatrics. |
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Geriatrics -- Canada -- Encyclopedias.
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Health Services for the Aged. |
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Geriatric Nursing. |
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Geriatrics. |
| Genre/Form |
Encyclopedia.
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Electronic books.
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Encyclopedias.
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| Added Author |
Capezuti, Liz, editor.
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Malone, Michael L., editor.
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Katz, Paul R. (Paul Richard), editor.
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Mezey, Mathy Doval, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Encyclopedia of elder care 9780826137357 (DLC) 2013043284 (OCoLC)862053134 |
| ISBN |
9780826137364 (electronic book) |
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0826137369 (electronic book) |
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1306194180 (electronic book) |
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9781306194181 (electronic book) |
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9780826137357 (print) |
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0826137350 (print) |
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