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Provide an overview of each component of the acute and long-term care service continuum, including managed health care, subacute care, and nursing homes. This volume addresses the practices in long-term care financing and assisted living. It is useful for professionals involved in long-term care, including administration, and community nursing.
In this capstone work, Arthur Staats synthesises more than four decades of research, theory, and study into a new generation of behaviourism that offers insights and future directions for researchers, professionals, and students. Staats's unified theory of psychological behaviourism builds on current theories in child development, personality, ......
Proper nutrition, weight, and exercise have all been strongly linked to improved health and longevity among the elderly. This timely volume presents the latest medical research on nutrition and its impact on healthy aging in a variety of older populations and in a range of care settings. Topics include the diagnosis and management of protein ......
This volume evaluates a range of assessment measures with regard to older adults. The expert contributors address topics such as assessment of health, functional disability (ADLs), mental agility, aging and personality, depression, and pain. While the instruments themselves are readily available from other sources, this book discusses the ......
Deals with the aged and the process of aging and links this knowledge to interventions for improving the quality of life. Featuring expert gerontologists, this volume highlights the development of preventive, therapeutic, and rehabilitative interventions designed to assist older people maintain their independence and quality of life.
Draws together and critically reviews the research in specific areas of nursing practice, nursing care delivery, nursing education, and the professional aspects of nursing.
Aims to introduce students to the complex skills necessary for effective management in human service administration. This textbook presents actual problems through concise case studies with study-guide questions for discussion. It covers a range of situations and dilemmas that a human services student can expect to encounter as an administrator.
A Contemporary Rehabilitation Approach to the Practice of Medicine
This introduction to the management of chronic illness is based on a course given at the University of Washington School of Medicine. It examines the factors related to evaluation, treatment and rehabilitation of these patients and is essential reading for all medical students and rehabilitation professionals.
During the past few decades, the dramatic social changes with regard to our aging population and changes in the family unit have made both demographic and socioeconomic consequences, as well as an effect on matters of social policy. The prestigious editors, George L. Maddox and M. Powell Lawton, have assembled an impressive group of expert ......
