‘The information [in this book] is amazing. I reviewed topics in which I have expertise and was very satisfied. This is an excellent addition to my library and I will refer to it often, much like a medical dictionary. Score: 90, 4 Stars. –Doody’s Medical Reviews
‘The third edition of this encyclopedia provides 273 comprehensive, yet succinct, entries on a variety of topics related to elder care. … In addition, many of the entries include see also references that help readers easily navigate the book. Entries are written at an undergraduate level and would be useful for practitioners, students, and caregivers…Recommended.’– Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries
This interdisciplinary clinical reference encompasses more than 310 current entries on a broad range of topics related to geriatrics and geriatric care across multiple health care disciplines. The third edition reflects the many advances in geriatrics that have occurred since the publication of the second edition in 2006. It contains the updated, evidence-based contributions of more than 260 nationally recognized geriatric healthcare professionals regarding elder-care concerns relating to society, community, caregiving, and the individual. Completely new entries address Geriatric Care Models (acute care for elders, Project BOOST), Geriatric Health Issues (diarrhea in adults, prolonged hospitalization, frailty, fronto-temporal dementia, re-hospitalization, acute urinary retention, personality and aging, primary palliative care), Technology and Aging (Smart home sensors, Telehealth, Surveillance technology), and more.
The Encyclopedia is organized alphabetically and includes links to important Web-based resources and Apps. Clinical topics comprehensively address diagnosis, treatment, and disease management. Health care clinicians across the continuum will find this reference—the only one of its kind–to be a valuable guide to making appropriate referrals to social service providers, and social service professionals will be well informed by highly accessible descriptions of diagnoses, clinical syndromes, and care management.
Key Features:
- Includes over 310 updated geriatric and geriatric care clinical entries across multiple healthcare disciplines
- Contains state-of-the-art contributions from over 260 nationally recognized geriatric healthcare experts
- Provides clinical content for social service professionals and social care information for clinicians
- Offers new information on multiple topics relating to Geriatric Care Models, Geriatric Health Concerns, and Technology and Aging
- References numerous Web-based resources and Apps
Table of Content
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LIST OF ENTRIES
AARP (Previously the American Association of
Retired Persons)
Abuse
Access to Care
Active Life Expectancy
Activities of Daily Living
Adult Day Services
Adult Foster Care Homes
Adult Protective Services
Advance Directives
Advanced Practice Nursing
African Americans and Health Care
Ageism
Aging African Americans
Aging Agencies: City and County Level
Aging Agencies: Federal Level
Aging Agencies: State Level
AIDS
Allergic Rhinitis
Alternative and Complementary Medicine
Alzheimerís Association
Alzheimerís Disease
American Association of Homes and Services for
the Aging
American Federation for Aging Research
American Geriatrics Society
American Health Care Association
American Indian Elders
American Medical Directors Association
American Nurses Association
American Society on Aging
Americans With Disabilities Act
Anemia
Animal-Assisted Health Care
Anxiety and Panic Disorders
Arthritis
Asian American and Pacific Islander Elders
Aspiration
Assisted Living
Assisted Suicide
Assistive Technology
Association for Gerontology in Higher Education
Atrophic Vaginitis
Autonomy
Back Pain
Balance
Behavioral Symptoms in Patients with Demetia
Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia
Bereavement
Bowel Function
Breathing
Bruises
Building Academic Geriatric Nursing Capacity
Awards Program
Burns and Related Safety Issues
Caloric Intake
Cancer Treatment
Cardiovascular Fitness
Cardiovascular System: Overview
Caregiver Burden
Caregiver Burnout
Caregiver Support Groups
Caregiving Benefits
Caregiving Relationships
Case Management
Cataracts
Centenarians
Cerebrovascular Disease
Chest Pain: Noncardiac Causes
Chronic Heart Failure in the Elderly
Chronic Illness
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Clinical Pathways
Cognition Instruments
Cognitive Changes in Aging
Communication Issues for Practitioners
Community Assessment
Competency and Capacity
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Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Conservatorship
Consumer-Directed Care
Continuing Care Retirement Communities
Contractures
Coping With Chronic Illness
Coronary Artery Disease
Cough
Creativity
Crime Victimization
Cultural Assessment
Cultural Competence and Aging
Culture Change
Cure Versus Care
Daytime Sleepiness
Death Anxiety
Deconditioning Prevention
Dehydration
Delirium
Dementia: Nonpharmacological Therapy
Dementia: Overview
Dementia: Pharmacological Therapy
Dementia: Special Care Units
Demography of Aging
Dental Implants
Dentistry
Dentures
Depression in Dementia
Depression Measurement Instruments
Diabetes: Management
Diabetes: Overview
Discharge Planning
Dizziness
Driving
Dyspnea (Shortness of Breath)
Dysuria
Eating and Feeding Behaviors
Elder Mistreatment: Overview
Elder Neglect
Employment
Environmental Modifications: Home
Environmental Modifications: Institutional
Ergonomics
Ethics Consultation
Euthanasia
Evidence-based Health Care
Exercise and Cardiovascular Response
Eye Care Providers
Falls Prevention
Family Care for Elders with Dementia
Family Care for Frail Elders
Family Caregiver Needs: Assessment
Fatigue
Fecal Incontinence
Feeding: Non-oral
Financial Abuse
Financing Retirement
First Nation Peoples and Dementia
Foot Problems
Fractures
The Future
Future of Care
Gait Assessment Instruments
Gait Disturbances
Gastrointestinal Bleed
Gastrointestinal Diseases
Gastrointestinal Physiology
Gay and Lesbian Aging
Genetic Factors in Alzheimerís Disease
Geriatric Assessment Programs
Geriatric Consultation
Geriatric Dentistry: Clinical Aspects
Geriatric Evaluation and Management Units
Geriatric Interdisciplinary Team Training (GITT)
Geriatric Resource Nurse
Geriatrician
Gerontological Social Workers
Gerontological Society of America
Glaucoma
Grandparents as Family Caregivers
Group Psychotherapy
Guardianship and Conservatorship
Hartford Institute Geriatric Nursing Research
Scholars Program
Headache
Health Maintenance
Health Promotion Screening
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Hearing Aids
Hearing Impairment
Heart Failure Management
Heartburn
Hematopoiesis
Hip Fractures
Hispanic and Latino Elders
Home Health Care
Homeless Elders
Homosexual Elders
Hospice
Hospital-Based Services
Hospital Elder Life Program (HELP)
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and AIDS
Hypertension
Iatrogenesis
Immigrant Elders
Immunization
Incontinence
Infection Transmission in Institutions:
Pneumococcal Pneumonia
Information Technology
Injury and Trauma
Institutional Mistreatment: Abuse and Neglect
Institutionalization
Integumentary System
Intergenerational Care
International Psychogeriatric Association
Interviewing
Intra-Articular Therapy
Joint Replacement: Lower Extremity
Kidney and Urinary System
Latino Elders
Leisure Programs
Life Events
Life Expectancy
Life Extension
Life Review
Long-Term-Care Financing: International
Perspective
Long-Term-Care Policy
Low Vision
Managed Care
Meals on Wheels
Measurement
Measuring Physical Function
Medicaid
Medicare
Medicare Managed Care
Medicare Part D Benefit
Medication Adherence
Mental Capacity Assessment
Mental Health Services
Mild Cognitive Impairment: Controversy in
Nomenclature and Treatment
Mini-Mental State Examination
Money Management
Morbidity Compression
Multidimensional Functional Assessment:
Instruments
Multidimensional Functional Assessment:
Overview
Muscle Cramps
Musculoskeletal System
Music Therapy
National Asian Pacific Center on Aging
National Citizensí Coalition for Nursing Home
Reform
National Conference of Gerontological Nurse
Practitioners
National Council on the Aging
National Gerontological Nursing Association
National Indian Council on Aging
National Institute on Aging
National Long-Term-Care Ombudsman
Program
Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities
(NORCs)
Neurological Changes in the Elderly
Neuropsychological Assessment
Neuropsychologists
Nonpharmacological Treatement
Nurse Competence in Aging
Nursing Homes
Nursing Home Admission
Nurses Improving Care to Health System Elders
(NICHE)
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Nursing-Home Managed Care
Nursing Home Reform Act
Nutritionists
Obesity
Occupational Therapists
Occupational Therapy Assessment and
Evaluation
Older Americans Act
Oral Health Assessment
Osteoarthritis
Osteoporosis
Over-the-Counter Drugs and Self-Medication
PACEóProgam of All-Inclusive Care for the
Elderly
Pain: Acute
Pain Assessment Instruments
Pain: Chronic/Persistent
Palliative Care
Parkinsonism
Patient-Provider Relationships
Pensions and Financing Retirement
Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy (PEG)
Tube Feeding
Peripheral Arterial Disease
Personality Disorders in the Elderly
Pharmacists
Physical Function
Physical Therapists
Physical Therapy Services
Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia
Podiatric Medicine
Polypharmacy: DrugñDrug Interactions
Polypharmacy: Management
Poverty
Pressure Ulcer Prevention and Treatment
Pressure Ulcer Risk Assessment
Primary Care Practice
Prison-residing Elders
Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly
(PACE)
Prosthetics: Lower Extremity
Pruritis (Itching)
Psychiatric Diagnosis and the DSM-IV-TR
Psychological/Mental Status Assessment
Psychotic Disorders and Mania
Psychotropic Medications in Nursing
Homes
Quality-of-Life Assessment
Recreation
Rehabilitation
Reimbursement
Relocation Stress
Renal System
Respiratory System
Respite Care
Restraints
Retirement
Retirement Communities
Rheumatoid Arthritis
Risk Assessment and Identification
Rural Elderly
Satisfaction Measurement
Self-Neglect
Self-Rated Health
Senior Centers
Sensory Changes/Loss: Smell and
Taste
Sexual Health
Signage
Skin Issues: Bruises and Discoloration
Skin Tears
Sleep Disorders
Smell
Social Isolation
Social Security
Social Supports (Formal and Informal)
Special Care Units
Speech-Language Pathologists
Spirituality
Staff Development
Stress
Subacute Care
Subcontinental Elders
Subjective Well-Being
Substitute Decision Making
Suicide
Sundowning
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Support Groups
Swallowing Disorders and Aspiration
Taste
Tax Policy
Teams
Technology
Therapeutic Recreation Specialists and Recreation
Therapists
Time
Total Parenteral Nutrition
Transitional Care
Transportation
Trauma
Tube Feeding
Tuberculosis
Urinary Incontinence
Urinary Incontinence Assessment
Urinary Tract Infections
Uterine, Cystocele/Rectocele, and Rectal
Prolapse
Validation Therapy
Vascular and Lewy Body Dementias
Veterans and Veteran Health
Vision
Vision Changes and Care
Vision Safety
Volunteerism
Wandering
Weakness
Well-Being
Xerostomia
‘About the author
Mathy Doval Mezey, Ed D, RN, FAAN, taught at Lehman College of the City University of New York and at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing where she directed the geriatric nurse practitioner program and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Teaching Nursing Home Program. Since 1991 she has been the Independence Foundation Professor and Director of the John A. Hartford Foundation Institute for the Advancement of Geriatric Nursing at New York University. Dr. Mezey is a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America, sits on the board of the Visiting Nurse Service of New York, and is Trustee Emeritus of Columbia University.
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