Geriatric Nursing (Paperback)

Key Features
* This book will help the nursing students to understand their responsibility towards caring for the aged, in whatever setting they are and how to behave and understand their problems.
* Main aim is to enable the practising nursing students to study this subject and act accordingly.
* Useful for all those who are caring for old people, from home care to nursing homes and hospitals to gain a thorough knowledge about their wards and how to deal with them.

Table of Contents
1. Theories of Ageing
2. Basic Concepts of Geriatric Nursing
3. Rationale for those Care for the Older People
4. Types of Aged Welfare
5. Ageing Process
6. Give them your smile and they Need It
7. The Need of Special Care for Senior Citizens
8. Health Status of the Older People
9. Older People with Diabetes
10. Older People with Urinary Problems
11. Care of the Old with Alzheimer?s and Other Dementias
12. Intelligence with Ageing
13. Social Theories in Ageing
14. Special Consideration in Care of Elderly
15. Coordination of Hospital and Home Care
16. Role of Organisations
17. Death with Dignity
18. The Right to Die
19. The Right to Know Information
20. Social Obligations Towards the Aged
21. Preparing for Old Age
22. The Psychological and Personal Characteristics
Old Age
Index