Handbook of geriatric nursing care.

The Second Edition of this A-to-Z guide covers a wide range of areas of concern pertaining to the growing geriatric population. Completely reviewed, updated and expanded, it includes more than 150 illustrations and charts. This text invites readers to investigate more than 200 disorders and age-oriented issues, such as lab value changes, sexuality, grief and loss, alternative therapies and cultural influences on compliance, self-care andrecovery. Comprehensive and easy-to-use, this manual covers Alzheimer's, cataract removal treatments, and many other new and expanded topics.

Contributors	p. vii
Foreword	p. ix
Diseases, treatments, procedures, and geriatric issues (in alphabetical order)	p. 1
Appendices
A. Physiologic changes in aging	p. 623
B. Laboratory value changes in elderly patients	p. 627
C. Levels of care	p. 630
D. Using antipsychotics in long-term care facilities	p. 632
E. Using anxiolytics and sedatives in long-term care facilities	p. 634
F. Unnecessary drugs in long-term care facilities	p. 636
G. Preventing adverse drug reactions in older patients	p. 638
H. Adverse reactions misinterpreted as age-related changes	p. 645
I. Resources for geriatric care	p. 646
Selected references	p. 648
Index	p. 650

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