Toward Healthy Aging: Human Needs and Nursing Response

**American Journal of Nursing (AJN) Book of the Year Awards, 1st Place in Gerontologic Nursing, 2023**_x000d_
**Selected for Doody’s Core Titles® 2024 in Geriatrics**_x000d_
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 thatfocuses 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._x000d_
Promoting Healthy Aging: Implications for Gerontological Nursing sections help you apply concepts to assessments and interventions_x000d_
A Student Speaks and An Elder Speaks sections at the beginning of every chapter provide perspectives of older people and nursing students_x000d_
Nursing Studies provide practice examples designed to assist you in assessment, planning, interventions, and outcomes to promote healthy aging