Gerontology - (For Specialized Use)

Author: Chen Changxiang and Yu Changmei, Editors
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Publishing Date: 2006-06-01
Features: This textbook is one of the "New Perspectives Higher Nursing Professional" series published by Tsinghua University Press. It aims to cultivate "practical" specialized nursing talents, integrating domestic elderly care education concepts and curriculum design characteristics. It emphasizes the basic knowledge and skills of specialized students, providing them with various abilities to address elderly care issues. The book is divided into seven chapters and contains 200,000 words, covering the following content: health assessment of the elderly; psychological and mental health of the elderly; health care and health promotion for the elderly; common problems and nursing care of the elderly; geriatric rehabilitation medicine and nursing; daily living care for the elderly. The writing process integrates the nursing process throughout, providing numerous assessment scales in the health assessment of the elderly and offering common, fundamental, and practical nursing methods for nursing students or clinical nurses in the section on common problems and nursing care.
This textbook is suitable for students of higher vocational nursing, higher vocational education, and upward promotion programs, as well as adult higher education students and clinical nursing professionals. It follows the unified requirements of the entire series, with the goal of specialized nursing education and cultivating practical talents. During the writing process, it adheres to the concepts of health self-management and health promotion, guided by modern nursing perspectives and framed by the nursing process. It is concise, highlights key points, avoids repetition, and does not include overlapping elderly diseases with internal medicine nursing, surgery nursing, psychiatric nursing, or social nursing. It emphasizes elderly characteristics while preserving the integrity of the entire series. The book focuses on the basic knowledge and skills of specialized students, providing them with various methods to address elderly care issues.
In line with domestic elderly care education concepts and curriculum design characteristics, the book is divided into seven chapters, including: Introduction, Health Assessment of the Elderly, Psychological and Mental Health of the Elderly, Health Care and Health Promotion for the Elderly, Common Problems and Nursing Care of the Elderly, Geriatric Rehabilitation Medicine and Nursing, and Daily Living Care for the Elderly. It provides numerous assessment scales in the health assessment of the elderly and includes references at the end of each chapter for students to apply and consult. It is hoped that this book will provide nursing students or clinical nurses with common, fundamental elderly disease knowledge and practical nursing methods.