Product Description: Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County. Explores diversity of the aging population and dispels major stereotypes surrounding them. Topics include dimensions of aging, social perspectives on aging, how to conduct research on aging, demographic characteristics of the U.S. aging population, and more. For students. Previous edition: c2001.

• Hardcover: 408 pages
• Publisher: Springer Publishing Company; 3 edition (December 18, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0826102123
• ISBN-13: 978-0826102126
• Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 7 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #548,089 in Books

Aging, Society, and the Life Course: Third Edition (Hardcover)

Product Description: Gerontological Nursing & Healthy Aging provides thorough coverage of promoting healthy aging when caring for older adults. The intent throughout the book is to facilitate the healthiest adaptation possible for any older adult, regardless of the situation and disease process. The majority of the book is devoted to discussing the significant problems that may occur and methods that nurses may use to make these problems more bearable, to solve some, and to help the elder find the best possible resolution towards healthy aging.

• Paperback: 608 pages
• Publisher: Mosby; 2 edition (April 8, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 032303165X
• ISBN-13: 978-0323031653
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: based on 2 reviews.
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #9,762 in Books

Gerontological Nursing and Healthy Aging (Paperback)

Product Description: As the most comprehensive resource on health promotion and maintenance for older adults and their families and caregivers, Toward Healthy Aging, 7th Edition includes the most current information you need to provide effective holistic care, promote healthy lifestyle choices, and address end-of-life issues. Grounded in the core competencies recommended by the AACN in collaboration with the Hartfound Institute for Geriatric Nursing and using Maslows hierarchy of needs, this book includes complete coverage of both common and uncommon conditions in the older adult. Towards Healthy Aging also highlights key aging issues with sections devoted to basic physiologic needs, safety and security, the need to belong, self-esteem, and self-actualization.

• Hardcover: 800 pages
• Publisher: Mosby; 7 edition (October 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0323047300
• ISBN-13: 978-0323047302

Toward Healthy Aging: Human Needs and Nursing Response (Toward Healthy Aging (Ebersole)) (Hardcover)

Product Description: With the growing size of the elderly population comes an increased interest in aging as a subject of research and study. Human Aging: Biological Perspectives is written for the one-quarter or one-semester introductory level course and is aimed at students with little or no science background. The main structure of the text follows a body systems approach. In addition to the introductory chapter and a chapter covering molecules, cells, and the theories of aging, each body system is covered in its own chapter.

• Paperback: 408 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math; 2 edition (July 22, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0072926910
• ISBN-13: 978-0072926910
• Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 8.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: based on 1 review.
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #149,452 in Books

Human Aging: Biological Perspectives (Paperback)

What? A how-to-make-your-life-better-book with more than the ubiquitous seven ways of doing so? In Rules for Aging: Resist Normal Impulses, Live Longer, Attain Perfection, acclaimed essayist and NewsHour with Jim Lehrer regular contributor Roger Rosenblatt boldly offers up a whopping 56 rules for wisely navigating life into your golden years.

Rosenblatt describes the short book (only 140 pages), which began with a column he wrote for Modern Maturity, as a "little guide intended for people who wish to age successfully, or at all." He adds that "growing older is as much an art as it is a science, and it requires fewer things to do than not to do."

• Paperback: 168 pages
• Publisher: Harvest Books; 1 Harvest edition (November 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0156013606
• ISBN-13: 978-0156013604
• Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: based on 27 reviews.
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #37,277 in Books

Rules for Aging: A Wry and Witty Guide to Life (Paperback)