Toward Healthy Aging: Human Needs and Nursing Response [Paperback]

**American Journal of Nursing (AJN) Book of the Year Awards, 1st Place in Gerontologic Nursing, 2023**
**Selected for Doody’s Core Titles? 2024 in Geriatrics**

Provide holistic, compassionate nursing care for older adults! Based on evidence-based protocols, Toward Healthy Aging, 11th Edition helps you master gerontological nursing skills with an approach that focuses on health, wholeness, and the potential in aging. In promoting healthy aging, the text emphasizes caring and respect for the person. Special sections provide an honest look at the universal experience of aging. Written by gerontological nursing experts Theris A. Touhy and Kathleen F. Jett, this classic text helps you learn to apply scientific research, build critical thinking skills, and prepare for success on the NCLEX^? exam and in clinical practice.

• Promoting Healthy Aging: Implications for Gerontological Nursing sections help you apply concepts to assessments and interventions
• A Student Speaks and An Elder Speaks sections at the beginning of every chapter provide perspectives of older people and nursing students
• Nursing Studies provide practice examples designed to assist you in assessment, planning, interventions, and outcomes to promote healthy aging
• Learning objectives in every chapter introduce important content and define learning goals and expectations
• Key concepts provide a concise review of the most important points found in each chapter
• Critical Thinking Questions and Activities help you apply concepts and build clinical judgment skilllãí