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Author Beckingham, Ann C.

Title Promoting healthy aging. a nursing and community perspective / Ann C. Beckingham, Beverly Witter DuGas
Edition First edition
Published St. Louis : Mosby, [1993]
©1993

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 WATERFT HEALTH  610.7365 Bec/Pha  AVAILABLE
Description xiv, 474 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents 1. Aging in Canada -- 2. The Emergence of Gerontological Nursing -- 3. Selected Nursing Models Applicable to Gerontological Practice -- 4. Building Environments to Support Healthy Aging -- 5. Healthy Life-styles -- 6. Promoting Independent Living: A Community-based Model -- 7. Assessment of the Older Adult -- 8. Planning Nursing Care -- 9. Health Concerns Associated with Aging -- 10. Family and the Aging Person -- 11. Stress, Distress, and Eustress -- 12. Adjustments and Losses -- 13. Legal and Ethical Issues -- 14. Ethnicity and Aging -- 15. Contributions of the Aging Population to Society -- 16. Changing Issues in Gerontological Nursing
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Community health services for older people -- Canada.
Geriatric nursing -- Canada.
Older people -- Health and hygiene -- Canada.
Author Du Gas, Beverly Witter.
LC no. 93110164
ISBN 080160916X