Includes glossary and index.

Nursing and the older adult -- Nursing for the aging population -- Assessing the older adult: the nursing process -- Ethical issues -- arising with age -- Legal aspects of older adult care -- Psychosocial health in maturity -- Acknowledging the whole person: culture, -- ethnicity, and religion -- Alterations in lifelong capabilities: social, physical, sexual -- Physiological health in aging -- Nutritional needs -- Five senses: sensation and perception -- Activity, rest, and sleep -- Personal safety: pharmacologic, physical, social Supporting wellness in diverse settings -- Community health care: health promotion and community living -- Acute health care -- Long-term care -- Physiological challenges of aging -- Maintaining wellness of the heart and circulation -- Maintaining wellness of the lungs and respiration -- Maintaining wellness of the bones and muscles -- Maintaining wellness of the brain and nerves -- Maintaining wellness of the skin -- Maintaining wellness of the metabolic system -- Maintaining wellness of the immune system -- Maintaining wellness of the stomach and gastrointestinal system -- Maintaining wellness of the genitourinary system -- Cognitive challenges of aging -- Addressing cognitive issues -- Supporting mental health -- Death and dying -- Professional gerontological nurse -- Choices in gerontological nursing.

"Gerontological Nursing Care is ideal as a textbook...or as a reference book."--BOOK JACKET. "Nineteen prominent leaders in the gerontological nursing community thoroughly address the nursing care needs of older adults in a positive, compassionate manner that promotes wellness. They examine a full range of key issues including spirituality, cultural diversity, sexuality, polypharmacy, falls and other safety problems, sensory alterations, immunologic concerns, Alzheimer's disease, caregiver stress, professional stress, and homelessness. And, a compelling photography program supports the humanistic focus."--BOOK JACKET. "Concise and easy to read, Gerontological Nursing Care supports a holistic, humanistic approach to the care of older patients from diverse cultural backgrounds in a full range of care settings."