Nursing Older People

This practical guide helps student and practicing nurses to understand the impact of their care when working with older people.

Auteur

Heather Elbourne is a specialist in geriatric nursing, researcher and teacher. Her skills and expertise lie in clinical nursing, nursing education, and clinical decision making. Her doctoral research focussed on the implementation of Person-Centred Intermediate Care with her subsequent research concentrating on understanding better the impact of frailty in older age. Andrée le May is a nurse, teacher and researcher. Her work focuses on how nurses use knowledge in practice and whenever possible she combines this with her clinical specialism of elderly care. She is Professor Emerita at the University of Southampton and co-editor of the Journal of Research in Nursing

Contenu

1. About this book

2. Thinking about the ageing population

3. Stories of older age

4. Risk taking and risk aversion

5. Staying healthy in older age

6. Common difficulties experienced by older people

7. Frailty and Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment

8. Living and dying in old age

9. Conclusions