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Aged Care Nursing
Wandering Behaviour in Aged Care Settings
Nurses who work with the elderly are familiar with those in residential care who are described as 'wanderers'. Episodes of wandering can cause significant stress to staff and families. This chapter provides a basic insight into this complex phenomenon...
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Manual Handling and Mobility in Aged Care
The mobility and manual handling of people is an important aspect of aged care and an integral part of occupational health‐and‐safety practice.This chapter outlines essential skills in manual handling and mobility to ensure quality care in aged care...
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Prelims - Aged Care Nursing
Prelims Includes:
Dedication, Foreword, Preface,
About the Authors and Contents
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Aged Care Nursing
This chapter provides a basic overview of aged care nursing including the skills needed by nurses on how to assess residents and other elderly people. It also examines the skills needed to assess, analyse and plan care...
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Nursing Assessments in Aged Care
Persons admitted to aged‐care facilities require thorough assessment which allows them to be placed in suitable facilities. This chapter provides essential
methods and guidelines for assessors as they begin to determine care provision for the aged...
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Skin and Oral Hygiene in Aged Care
Adequate skin and oral care is of extreme importance to the comfort, health and well‐being of the elderly. This chapter provides evidence‐based guidelines to ensure that appropriate oral and skin care is undertaken...
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Pressure Ulcers and Leg Ulcers
Wound management involves caring for the person with a wound, not only the wound. Each person with a wound should be treated in a holistic manner that includes the physical, psychological, emotional and social effects of the wound on that person...
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Foot Care in Aged Care
Foot problems are a common accompaniment of advancing age and are associated with impaired mobility, limited independence and diminished quality of life...
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Nutrition in Aged Care
Eating and drinking is basic to sustaining life. Withdrawing food and fluid leads to starvation and dehydration and even death. The provision of sufficient nutrients and energy will improve a person’s health and general quality of life..
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Enteral Feeding in Aged Care
Nurses and carers must ensure that nutritional requirements are met for patients who are unable to eat or swallow oral foods. This chapter covers the skills required to ensure the necessary nutritional needs of a person requiring enteral feeding are met..
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Incontinence in Aged Care Environments
Incontinence is frequently encountered by nurses and personal carers, particularly in aged care. This chapter tackles the importance of understanding what incontinence is, who it affects, why it happens and what can be done about it...
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Falls (aged care)
Falls among people over 65 are common. However, recent developments in research and practice indicate that a range of actions can be effective in reducing falls‐related injuries among older people...
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Dysfunctional Behaviour in Aged Care Settings
Dysfunctional behaviour of various forms can present challenges to nurses who care for the aged. This chapter deals with the reasons for dysfunctional behaviour and provides different strategies for managing it...
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Pain Management in Aged Care
Pain is most often poorly managed in those who are most defenceless against it ‐ the elderly. The focal point of this chapter provides nurses with an insight into pain and how it can be effectively handled...
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Palliative Care in Aged Care
The aim of this chapter is to present a broad understanding of palliative care and its application in aged care...
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Care Plans - Aged Care
Care plans should always focus on ‘care provision’ that emphasises the concepts of dignity and caring. This chapter updates readers on modern care plans which are now formulated with the person, for the person.
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Delirium and Dementia
Cognitive impairment is common in older people living in aged care. This chapter describes how to identify cognitive deficits and to manage the resulting symptoms using the nursing process...
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Medications - Aged Care
There are many age-specific factors that increase the risk of adverse reactions to medications in the elderly and medication‐related illness among the elderly is rising. In this chapter, learn how to safely use medication in aged care...
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Complementary Therapies (in aged care)
There are a variety of strategies that nurses can offer their patients to improve the maintenance of personal health. In this chapter, learn about popular forms of complementary therapy and how they promote well‐being in the elderly...
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Cultural Differences (in aged care)
The aim of this chapter is to aid nurses to be sensitive, reach out to elderly people, become aware of their psychological and cultural difficulties and help them to maintain a sense of well‐being in a foreign culture.
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