Older Adults: Understanding and Facilitating Transitions: Understanding & Facili

Description: Older Adults: Understanding and Facilitating Transitions by Annette M. Lane, Marlette B. Reed Illustrates the complexities of the transitions faced by older adults and their family members, and offers ideas for nurses, social workers, chaplains, and other health and human service professionals in working with vulnerable aging individuals. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Old age is no place for sissies! exclaimed Bette Davis. This has always been true, but with the challenges of our current society, it has become even more poignant. Transitions, in and of themselves, are confounding and challenging to navigate! While transitions can be difficult for anyone, for a number of reasons they often pose great problems for older adults within North America.The NEW third edition of Older Adults: Understanding and Facilitating Transitions illustrates the complexities of these transitions faced by older adults and their family members and offers ideas for nurses, social workers, chaplains, and other health and human service professionals in working with vulnerable aging individuals.Written by educators and authors with extensive experience working with older adults in many different sites, including community agencies, hospitals, and hospice, Older Adults: Understanding and Facilitating Transitions:Addresses transitions such as coping with chronic illness, retirement, illnesses, relocations (e.g. moves to facilities), and the final transition, dying and death. Incorporates within each chapter, websites, references and a case example that illustrates the challenges of transition, as well as how health and human service professionals can assess and intervene. Discuses issues of meaning and purpose that may arise through these transitions, as well as the challenges experienced by families of older adults assisting their family members. Features a chapter that analyzes offer future directions for research and professional practice that may benefit older adults (and their family members) as they experience the challenges of later life.Integrates a mixture of the authors personal and professional experiences.Is easy to adopt! Learning activities, PowerPoint?® presentations, and multiple choice questions are provided to adopting instructors. Table of Contents PrefaceChapter 1 Introduction Our Changing Understanding of Human TransitionHow Transitions are ConceptualizedDomains of TransitionCoping With TransitionsFactors That Influence the Transition ExperienceAssessment and Interventions During TransitionsChapter 2 Transitions and Older Adults: An Overview Why This Is an Important TopicWhat Are the Transitions Faced by Older Adults?The Complexities of Transitions in Older AdulthoodUnderlying Assumptions in Working With Older AdultsChallenges for Health and Human Service ProfessionalsChapter 3 Health Transitions in Older Adults Physical Illness: ChronicChronic PainMental IllnessMedication Usage and AddictionsFramework Within Which to Understand IllnessAssessment and InterventionChapter 4 Housing Transitions The Concept of HomeGlobal PerspectiveHousing Options in Later LifeTheory and Research That Underlies Our Understanding of TransitionsInterventions to Promote Positive Transition ExperiencesChapter 5 Existential Transitions Development of PersonhoodExistential Transitions in Older AdultsInterventions to Address Existential Issues in Older AdultsExistential Work for ProfessionalsChapter 6 Death: The Final Transition Myths About Dying in Advancing YearsIssues Related to Dying for Older AdultsIssues for Family MembersEthical IssuesChapter 7 The Family Definition of the FamilyDevelopmental Tasks of an Aging FamilyChallenges in Working With the FamilyPrinciples in Assessment and Intervention With FamiliesChapter 8 Future Directions Education for Current and Future Health and Human Service ProfessionalsServices in the CommUnityHousing OptionsSupport for Families (Caregivers)Advocacy: By Older Adults for Older Adults and the VulnerableAfterwordIndex Details ISBN1524976431 Language English ISBN-10 1524976431 ISBN-13 9781524976439 Format Paperback Edition 3rd Subtitle Understanding & Facilitating Transitions Imprint Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S. Place of Publication Iowa Country of Publication United States Author Marlette B. Reed Pages 277 Year 2018 Publication Date 2018-11-21 Short Title Older Adults UK Release Date 2018-11-21 AU Release Date 2018-11-21 NZ Release Date 2018-11-21 US Release Date 2018-11-21 Publisher Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S. Edition Description Third Edition Audience Tertiary & Higher Education We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:126664338;

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