Redfern’s Nursing Older People provides accessible, evidence-based information for nurses, care assistants and other health professionals wanting to improve the quality of health and social care for older people.
Republished for the first time since 2006, this fifth edition has been comprehensively revised and rewritten by a large team of expert contributors, while preserving the person-centred spirit of earlier editions. It applies best evidence in straightforward and practical ways to the demographic, physical, psychological, social and emotional challenges of ageing, with a focus on supporting independence and health maintenance.
With new contributions covering emerging challenges such as understanding frailty and the use of digital technology, and the themes of diversity, service-user perspectives and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic woven throughout, Redfern’s Nursing Older People is essential reading to help nurses shape practice, improve outcomes and promote opportunities for ageing well.
Key Features
- Written by a team of 68 specialists and experts drawn from the fields of nursing, social sciences, gerontology and healthcare practice
- Covers the latest evidence, policy and nursing practice
- Focus on nursing-led solutions for improving activities of daily living, independence and preventing common problems of ageing
- Accessible to all, with stories, case studies and lived experience to bring material to life
- Summaries and learning points support learning around complex problems
- Emphasis on countering ageism using images and wider literature where appropriate
New Features
- All chapters either extensively rewritten or completely new
- New chapters on frailty, the misuse of alcohol as a growing problem in old age, digital technology, and nursing older people with intellectual disabilities
- Core themes of gerontology embedded throughout, such as assessment and rehabilitation
- Impact of COVID-19 embedded throughout
1 Introduction
2 What Is Old Age?
3 Demographic and Epidemiological Trends in Ageing
4 The Psychology of Human Ageing
5 The Biology of Human Ageing
6 Nursing the Older Person Living With Frailty
SECTION 2 People, Policy and the Place of Care
7 Policy Context of Nursing in Health and Social Care
8 Public Health: Healthy Ageing and Well-Being
9 Health and Social Care for Older People in the Community
10 Nursing Older People in Hospital
11 Care Home Nursing Is ‘Maxi-Nursing’: The Value and Contribution of Nursing Older People in Long-Term Care Settings
12 Meeting the Health Needs of Older People Experiencing Homelessness and Other Inclusion Health Groups
13 Informal, Unpaid Carers
14 Abuse and Safeguarding
SECTION 3 Independence and Maintaining Function
15 Communication Challenges and Skills
16 Older People and Hearing
17 Older People’s Eye Health
18 Promoting Safe Mobility for Older People
19 Care of the Foot
20 Breathing
21 Eating and Drinking
22 Bladder and Bowel Health
23 Infection Prevention and Control and Thermoregulation in Older People
24 Maintaining Healthy Skin
25 Sleep and Rest
26 Sexuality and Relationships in Later Life
27 Pain and Older People
28 Delirium: Diagnosis, Management and Care for Older People
29 Care of the Person Living With Dementia
30 Depression in Older People
31 Medicine Management
32 Alcohol Misuse and Ageing
33 Nursing Older People With Intellectual Disabilities
34 End-of-Life Care: Dying, Bereavement and Loss
35 The Role of Technology and Digital Tools in the Care and Support of Older People
SECTION 4 Postscript: New Directions and Reflections on Caring for Older People
36 New Directions and Reflections on Caring for Older People
Index
