Best Geriatrics Books
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1. Ebersole and Hess' Gerontological Nursing & Healthy Aging
Author: by Theris A. Touhy DNP CNS DPNAP
Published at: Mosby; 5th edition (March 7, 2017)
ISBN: 978-0323401678
Discover a wellness-based, holistic approach to older adult care. Ebersole & Hess’ Gerontological Nursing and Healthy Aging, 5th Edition is the only gerontological nursing text on the market that focuses on this thoughtful, organic method of care. Designed to facilitate healthy aging regardless of the situation or disease process, this text goes beyond simply tracking recommended treatments to addressing complications, alleviating discomfort, and helping older adults lead healthy lives.
Featuring an updated four-color design, additional information on long-term care, evidence-based practice boxes, safety alerts, expanded tables, and careful attention to age, gender, and cultural differences, Ebersole & Hess’ Gerontological Nursing and Healthy Aging is the most complete text on the market.
Focus on health and wellness helps you gain an understanding of the patient’s experience. Safety Alerts highlight safe practices and quality of care QSEN competencies. Careful attention to age, cultural, and gender differences helps you to understand these important considerations in caring for older adults.
2. The 36-Hour Day: A Family Guide to Caring for People Who Have Alzheimer Disease, Related Dementias, and Memory Loss
Author: by Nancy L. Mace MA
Grand Central Life & Style
English
640 pages
The most trusted guide for caring for persons with Alzheimer’s disease, memory loss, and dementia disorders-now revised and updated with practical and legal advice and compassionate guidance for families and caregivers. When someone in your family suffers from Alzheimer’s disease or other related memory loss diseases, both you and your loved one face immense challenges.
For over thirty years, this book has been the trusted bible for families affected by dementia disorders. Now completely revised and updated, this guide features the latest information on the causes of dementia, managing the early stages of dementia, the prevention of dementia, and finding appropriate living arrangements for the person who has dementia when home care is no longer an option.
You’ll learn:The basic facts about dementiaHow to deal with problems arising in daily care-meals, exercise, personal hygiene, and safetyHow to cope with an impaired person’s false ideas, suspicion, anger, and other mood problemsHow to get outside help from support groups, friends, and agenciesFinancial and legal issues you must address.
3. Nursing for Wellness in Older Adults
Author: by Carol A Miller
LWW
English
656 pages
Ensure the most effective wellness-oriented nursing care for older adults in any healthcare setting. Confidently deliver wellness-oriented care for older adults across a changing healthcare environment with the latest evidence-based coverage of gerontological nursing. Comprehensively revised and updated, Nursing for Wellness in Older Adults, Eighth Edition fosters your understanding of both the physiologic and psychosocial aspects of aging, as well as broader issues of cultural competence, legal matters, and ethical concerns.
Organized around the author’s proven Functional Consequences Theory for Promoting Wellness in Older Adults, this trusted text focuses on equipping you to work proactively with older adults to promote high levels of functioning and quality of life, despite the limitations associated with aging, disease, and related conditions.NEW!
Technology to Promote Wellness in Older Adults boxes familiarize you with technology-based interventions for promoting wellness in older adults.NEW! Interprofessional Collaboration (IPC) coverage emphasizes strategies for working with other healthcare professionals in managing care of older patients.NEW! Global Perspective boxes illustrate proven international approaches to quality gerontological nursing.NEW!
4. Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Q&A Review
Author: by Dawn Carpenter DNP ACNP-BC
English
398 pages
0826164781
The only book designed specifically to prepare students for the Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (AG-ACNP) exams, this unparalleled review details the step-by-step journey from classroom to patient room and beyond. This book begins with proven test-taking strategies for students and provides an overview of common pitfalls for exam takers.
It features question styles and content material from both the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) and American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) exams, providing an overview of the certification exams written specifically by the certification organizations themselves. With more than 630 unique questions, this review contains completely up-to-date and evidence-based exam preparation.
Practice questions are organized into body system review, special populations, and legal/ethical issues, and culminate in a 175-question practice test that represents the length, variety, and complexity of board exam questions. All questions’ answers have accompanying rationales based on clinical practice guidelines.
5. Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy: The Harvard Medical School Guide to Healthy Eating
Author: by Walter Willett M.D.
Free Press
English
432 pages
In this revised and updated edition of the bestselling Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy, Dr. Walter Willett, for twenty-five years chair of the renowned Department of Nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, draws on cutting-edge research to explain what the USDA guidelines have gotten wrongand how you can eat right.
There’s an ever-growing body of evidence supporting the relatively simple principles behind healthy eating. Yet the public seems to be more confused than ever about what to eat. The never-ending promotion of celebrity and other fad diets gets in the way of choosing a diet that is healthy for both you and the planet that we all share.
So forget popular diets and food trends. Based on information gleaned from the acclaimed Nurses’ Health Study and Health Professionals Study, which have tracked the health and eating habits of thousands of women and men for more than thirty years, as well as other groundbreaking nutrition research, this revised and updated edition of Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy provides solid recommendations for eating healthfully and living better and longer.
6. Advanced Practice Nursing in the Care of Older Adults
Author: by Laurie Kennedy-Malone PhD GNP-BC FAANP FGSA
F.A. Davis Company
English
544 pages
Meet the diverse health care needs of older adults! Explore effective ways to enhance the wellness and independence of older adults across the wellness-illness continuum, including acute, primary, and long-term care. From an overview of the theories of aging and assessment through the treatment of disorders, including complex illnesses, this evidence-based book provides the comprehensive gerontological coverage you need to prepare for your role as an Advanced Practice Nurse.
You’ll be prepared for boards and for practice. See what students and practitioners are saying online Five Stars To the point resources on geriatric conditions/syndroms. Very easy to read/access the content you needbulleted and formatted for quick reference.
Helpful sections on evidence-based guidelines. Ben Should be titled “GET THIS BOOK NOW!” GREAT book for my new job… I’ve been an NP to college students and in urgent care, but this is the first time I’ve been a nurse practitioner for a geriatric house call practice and this book is perfect.
7. Long-Term Care for Activity Professionals, Social Services Professionals, and Recreational Therapists, Seventh Edition
Author: by Elizabeth (Betsy) Best-Martini
Geriatric Educational
English
490 pages
This is the best reference book for activity directors working in long-term care, assisted living, and adult day programs, and it’s the most popular text for training new professionals. This book is down to earth, easy to understand, and comprehensive enough to answer your difficult questions about working with different resident groups, meeting standards, working with team and family members, and managing your department.
It lets you see how all the parts of your facility can fit together to make an empowering, healthful, person-centered environment for everyone. It shows you how to provide care that satisfies, and even exceeds, health care regulations. And it gives you suggestions on how to stay sane, at least most of the time.
A great reference book with many excellent activities and reproducible forms, the seventh edition also includes information the new F-Tag codes, changes to the survey process, cultural sensitivity, and details on successful person-centered programming.
8. Geriatrics at Your Fingertips 2020: Book Only
Author: by David B. Reuben
English
1886775664
978-1886775664
Awarded second place in the 2017 AJN Book of the Year Awards in Gerontologic Nursing. Prepare your students for successful gerontological practice! Focusing on the content that students need to know for effective practice, this text offers engaging, evidence-based coverage of the aging process, factors contributing to healthy aging, and unique aspects of disease presentation and management in older adults.
Updated to help students meet the challenges of this increasingly diverse population, the ninth edition retains its acclaimed holistic approach through insightful coverage of the psychosocial, legal, ethical, and spiritual elements of patient care. HIGHLIGHTS OF THE NINTH EDITIONConcept Mastery Alerts improve students’ understanding of potentially confusing topics, as identified by Lippincott’s Adaptive Learning Powered by PrepU.
Consider This Case, Bringing Research to Life, Practice Realities, and Critical Thinking Exercises make concepts come alive and show students how the concepts they are learning are applied in real-life contexts. In-text learning aids including bolded key terms, communication tips, points to ponder, key concepts, and chapter summarieshelp students master important material.
10. Strength Training Past 50
Author: by Wayne Westcott
Human Kinetics
English
272 pages
Increase your strength to improve your health, your appearance, and your performance with Strength Training Past 50. Strength training offers many benefits for active adults, including enhanced athletic performance, reduced risk of disease, and decreased symptoms of arthritis, diabetes, and osteoporosis.
Whether you are just getting started or have been training your entire life, Strength Training Past 50 has you covered. In the third edition of this best-selling guide, you’ll find these topics: – 83 exercises for free weights, machines, bands, and balls – 30 workouts for increasing size, endurance, and strength – Sport-specific programs for tennis, golf, cycling, running, and more – Eating plans and nutrition advice for adding lean muscle and losing fat Strength Training Past 50 will keep you active, healthy, and looking great with workouts and programs designed just for you.
11. Mayo Clinic on Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias: A guide for people with dementia and those who care for them
Author: by Dr. Jonathon Graff-Radford M.D.
Mayo Clinic Press
English
414 pages
It can be terrifying to witness a loved one’s cognitive decline. But for millions of families around the world, that fear becomes reality year after year. Researchers estimate that more than 150 million people around the world could be living with dementia by 2050.
While there is currently no known cure for dementia, Mayo Clinic on Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Dementias combines the latest research on preventive methods, current treatment options, and advice for living well with dementia, to help those affected by the disease.
Traditionally, very little has been known about Alzheimer’s disease and other types of dementias. But recent advances in medical research shine a light on information previously unknown about these debilitating diseases. In the seventh edition of Mayo Clinic on Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Dementias, expert neurologists from the Mayo Clinic organize this new research into a thorough and digestible guidebook that provides caregivers with the most up-to-date information regarding the disease.
12. Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life
Author: by Louise Aronson
Bloomsbury Publishing
English
464 pages
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in General NonfictionLonglisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in NonfictionWinner of the WSU AOS Bonner Book AwardThe New York Times bestseller from physician and award-winning writer Louise Aronson-an essential, empathetic look at a vital but often disparaged stage of life, as revelatory as Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal.
For more than 5,000 years, “old” has been defined as beginning between the ages of 60 and 70. That means most people alive today will spend more years in elderhood than in childhood, and many will be elders for 40 years or more. Yet at the very moment that humans are living longer than ever before, we’ve made old age into a disease, a condition to be dreaded, denigrated, neglected, and denied.
Reminiscent of Oliver Sacks, noted Harvard-trained geriatrician Louise Aronson uses stories from her quarter century of caring for patients, and draws from history, science, literature, popular culture, and her own life to weave a vision of old age that’s neither nightmare nor utopian fantasy-a vision full of joy, wonder, frustration, outrage, and hope about aging, medicine, and humanity itself.
13. The Alzheimer's Prevention Food Guide: A Quick Nutritional Reference to Foods That Nourish and Protect the Brain from Alzheimer's Disease
Author: by Sue Stillman Linja
Rockridge Press
English
194 pages
Fortify your diet to help prevent Alzheimer’s. It’s natural to be concerned that there’s nothing you can do to reduce your risk of Alzheimer’sespecially if it runs in your family. Fortunately, there is something that can help prevent it: the right diet.
The Alzheimer’s Prevention Food Guide is a nutritional guide to the food that protects your brain. With this guide, you can look up foods fast to find out if they’re brain healthy. Unlike other Alzheimers books, this one even includes information about popular diets like MIND and Keto so you can compare them side-by-side and make the right decisions for you.
The Alzheimer’s Prevention Food Guide is one of the only Alzheimers books that offers:Sample meal templatesfind out what kind of foods (and how much of them) you should be eating with every meal. A 2-week meal planstart strong with 14 days of prescribed meals and learn what good choices look like.
Brain healthy food combinationsmix and match brain-healthy ingredients with profiles on over 115 different foods. Other Alzheimers books focus on treatment after the fact, but this one equips you with the knowledge you need to keep your brain in fighting form with the right food.
14. The Rheumatoid Arthritis Cookbook: Anti-Inflammatory Recipes to Fight Flares and Fatigue
Author: by Caitlin Samson MSACN
English
188 pages
162315863X
The revolutionary cookbook for managing rheumatoid arthritis. Nutrition plays an important role in finding day-to-day relief from joint pain and stiffness. The Rheumatoid Arthritis Cookbook is the groundbreaking cookbook for people with RA, written to take control of symptoms through delicious and nutritious meals.
From chia-coconut porridge for breakfast to lamb souvlaki for dinner, these anti-inflammatory recipes prove that food as medicine can taste really good too. Complete with a 2-week meal plan to get started off right, this cookbook makes it easy to fight flares and fatigue naturally with the things you eat.
The Rheumatoid Arthritis Cookbook offers:A Nutritional OverviewUnderstand the relationship of food and medicine and how nutrition can relieve the side effects of rheumatoid arthritis medications. A 2-Week Meal PlanGet started right away, with guidelines for modifying calories to lose or gain weight.
100 Easy RecipesCook up good food that’s good for you too with choices for vegetarian and vegan, fish and seafood, poultry and meat, and dessert dishes. Eating well has the power to make you feel wellThe Rheumatoid Arthritis Cookbook shows you how.
15. Current Diagnosis and Treatment: Geriatrics, 3/e (Current Geriatric Diagnosis and Treatment)
Author: by Louise Walter
English
736 pages
1260457087
The definitive guide to safe, effective care of older adultsupdated with important new content and streamlined for quick accessDoody’s Core Titles for 2021! Covers the complete range of topics in geriatric care, including theory and fundamentals, assessment, conditions, diseases, symptoms, policies, and societal issues that affect older patientsProvides a framework for using the functional and cognitive status, prognosis, and social context of patients to guide diagnosis and treatment of medical conditionsDelivers essential information on important topics such as delirium, cognitive impairment, dementia, falls and mobility disorders, Parkinson disease and other movement disorders, sleep disorders, and arthritisIncludes guidance on care in all settings clinic, home, hospital, and long-term care, as well as pre- and post-operative settingsNew content on technology to enhance geriatric care, caregiving support, the unique needs of older immigrants, Medicare and Medicaid, legal issues and conservatorship, aid in dying, assisted living care, short-stay rehabilitation, prostate cancer, marijuana use, syncope, and driving safety
16. Adult-Gerontology Acute Care NP Study Guide 2021-2022: New Outline + 450 Questions and Answer Explanations for the Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Exam (Includes 3 Full-length Practice Tests)
Author: by Newstone Adult Gerontology Test Team
English
262 pages
1989726631
Imagine if you could get all of the practice you need from one study guide and score very high on the Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Exam. This Adult-Gerontology study guide combines theory and practice questions so that students are fully prepared before writing the exam.
While other guides only provide around 100 questions, this guide has 450 questions along with answer explanations. There are 3 full-length tests included so that test takers will have enough practice before attempting the real exam. About Newstone Test PrepNewstone Test Prep provides test-takers with up-to-date test questions so that they are well prepared before taking the exam.
We take pride in our guides because they combine both theory and test questions. At Newstone Test Prep, we do not just compile test questions; we compile the same number of questions as the real exams, in the same format.
This has been a great help for past students because they were able to simulate the real exam while studying. Thousands of students have scored higher on their exams after using our study guides.
