| Description |
xxiii, 416 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction and overview of aging and older adulthood / Karen Devereaux Melillo -- Geropsychiatric and mental health nursing as a (sub) specialty / Karen Devereaux Melillo, Lee Ann Hoff, and Martha A. Huff -- Comprehensive mental health assessment / Lee Ann Hoff and Lisa A. Brown -- Ethnic elders / Jane Cloutterbuck and Lin Zhan -- Mental health promotion / Charles E. Blair -- Geropsychopharmacology / Barbara J. Edlund and James Sterrett -- Nursing assessment and treatment of depressive disorders of late life / Eve Heemann Byrd -- Nursing assessment and treatment of anxiety in older adults / Marianne Smith -- Nursing assessment and treatment of psychoses in older adults / Janet C. Mentes and Julia K. Bail -- Nursing assessment and treatment substance abuse disorders in older -- Adults / Betty D. Morgan, Donna M. White and Ann X. Wallace -- Nursing assessment and treatment of delirium in older adults / Karen Dick and Catherine R. Morency -- Nursing assessment of older adults experiencing dementia, screening, making and communicating the diagnosis / Kathleen Sherrell and Madelyn Iris -- Nursing management of older adults with dementia, care environments, clients, and caregivers / Ruth Remington, Linda A. Gerdner, and Kathleen C. Buckwalter -- Addressing problem behaviors common to late-life dementias / Ruth Remington and May Futrell -- Family caregiving / Susan Crocker Houde -- Sleep disorders in older adults / Barbara Resnick, Marianne Shaughnessy, and Marjorie Simpson -- Pathological gambling in older adults / Cynthia H. Sullivan Kerber -- Elder mistreatment / Terry Fulmer, Lisa Guadagno and Marguarette M. Bolton -- Nursing assessment and care of clients and their families at end-of-life / Michelle Doran and Karyn Geary -- Social, health and long-term care programs and policies affecting mental health of older adults / Kathy J. Fabiszewski -- Future of geropsychiatric and mental health nursing in addressing older adult health care needs / Kathleen C. Buckwalter, Priscilla Ebersole, and Diane Feeney Mahoney |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Geriatric psychiatry.
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Geriatric nursing.
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Psychiatric nursing.
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Geriatric Nursing -- methods.
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Geriatric Psychiatry -- methods.
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Mental Disorders.
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Aged.
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Mental Disorders -- nursing.
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| Author |
Melillo, Karen Devereaux.
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Houde, Susan Crocker.
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| LC no. |
2004025831 |
| ISBN |
0763732729 paperback |
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