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Older People and Mental Health Nursing: A Handbook of Care

ISBN: 978-0-470-69149-6

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256 pages

April 2008, Wiley-Blackwell

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PART 1: CONTEXT.

Chapter 1: Background and influences.

Part 2: HELPING OLDER INDIVIDUALS.

Chapter 2: Older individuals and mental health.

Chapter 3: Normal physiological ageing.

Chapter 4: Values underpinning help, support and care.

Chapter 5: Approaches to help, support and care.

Chapter 6: Legal and ethical frameworks for mental health nursing.

Chapter 7: Dilemmas in mental health nursing.

Chapter 8: Assessing older people with mental health issues.

PART 3: NEGLECTED ASPECTS.

Chapter 9: Culture, religion and spirituality.

Chapter 10: Intimacy, sex and sexuality.

Chapter 11: Nutrition.

Chapter 12: Palliative and end-of-life care.

PART 4: MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES FOR OLDER PEOPLE.

Chapter 13: Acute mental health issues.

Chapter 14: Delirium.

Chapter 15: Enduring mental health issues.

Chapter 16: Depression in later life.

Chapter 17: Dementia in later life.

PART 5: FUTURE DIRECTIONS.

Chapter 18: Mental health and well-being for older people in the future: the nursing contribution