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Chapter 1: History and Issues
Overview:
- Includes a brief history of aged care
- Outlines ways to improve aged care including improving education and fundamental precepts of good nursing
- Outlines the professional role of nurses
Description:
This chapter focuses on the history of aged care. It explores its problems and benefits and suggests ways of improving the aged care system. With diagrams and sub-headings this chapter is accessible and easy to understand.
Topics:
- A brief history of aged care
- Earlier paradigms of care
- The reforms of the 1980s and 1990s
- Implications for current nursing practice
- Problems and benefits in the new paradigm
- Nursing values in the new paradigm
- Improving dementia care
- Current knowledge and skills
- Fundamental precepts of good nursing practice
- Recognition of professional role
Speaker / Author:
Professor Sally Garratt
Sally has been involved in aged care for more than thirty years, and has held senior positions in the field as both an academic and a practitioner. She has co-written three previous books and has published numerous papers on various aspects of aged care nursing. Sally's research has concentrated on dementia nursing, with special emphasis on the effect of the environment on nursing practice, including the ethics of restraint. She has conducted numerous workshops and seminars on many aspects of aged care, and has been widely sought for consultant advice in Australia and internationally.
Sally manages the clinical nursing school at the Caulfield General Medical Centre in conjunction with La Trobe University (both Melbourne, Australia). Her work involves responsibility for graduate and undergraduate educational programs for nursing staff, and the undertaking of clinical care projects and research.
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