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