Cover -- copyright -- AUTHORS -- FOREWORD -- Contents -- ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSM -- ABUSE AND NEGLECT -- ACUTE RENAL FAILURE -- ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME -- ADVANCE DIRECTIVES -- AGE DISCRIMINATION -- ALCOHOL ABUSE -- ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE -- AMPUTATION -- ANEMIA, IRON DEFICIENCY -- ANGIOPLASTY, PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY -- ANXIETY -- AORTIC STENOSIS -- APPENDECTOMY -- APPENDICITIS -- AROMATHERAPY -- ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASE -- ART THERAPY -- ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA -- ASSESSMENT, FUNCTIONAL -- ASSESSMENT, PHYSICAL -- ASSISTED SUICIDE -- ASSISTIVE DEVICES -- ATRIAL FIBRILLATION -- BASAL CELL EPITHELIOMA -- BENIGN PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA -- BIOFEEDBACK -- BIPOLAR DISORDER -- BLADDER AND BOWEL RETRAINING -- BLADDER CANCER -- BLOOD SAMPLE COLLECTION -- BLOOD TRANSFUSION -- BOWEL RESECTION WITH ANASTOMOSIS -- BOWEL RESECTION WITH OSTOMY -- BREAST CANCER -- BREAST SELF-EXAMINATION -- BRONCHOSCOPY -- BUCCAL, SUBLINGUAL, AND TRANSLINGUAL MEDICATION ADMINISTRATION -- CALCIUM DEFICIENCY -- CALCIUM EXCESS -- CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION -- CARDIOGENIC SHOCK -- CARDIOMYOPATHY -- CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION -- CARDIOVERSION, SYNCHRONIZED -- CATARACT -- CATARACT REMOVAL -- CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER CARE -- CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT -- CERUMEN IMPACTION -- CERVICAL CANCER -- CHEMOTHERAPY -- CHEST DRAINAGE -- CHEST PHYSIOTHERAPY -- CHLORIDE DEFICIENCY -- CHLORIDE EXCESS -- CHOLECYSTECTOMY -- CHOLECYSTITIS -- CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE -- CHRONIC RENAL FAILURE -- COCHLEAR IMPLANT -- COLD APPLICATION -- COLORECTAL CANCER -- COMPLIANCE -- CONDOM CATHETER APPLICATION -- CONSTIPATION -- CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFTING -- CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE -- CYSTECTOMY -- DANCE THERAPY -- DEATH AND DYING -- DELIRIUM -- DEMENTIA -- DEPRESSION -- DIABETES MELLITUS -- DIARRHEA -- DIVERTICULAR DISEASE -- DRUG ABUSE AND MISUSE -- EAR MEDICATION ADMINISTRATION.

ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY -- ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY STUDIES -- ENDARTERECTOMY -- END-OF-LIFE CARE -- ENDOSCOPY -- ENEMA ADMINISTRATION -- ENTERAL NUTRITION -- ENTERAL TUBE MEDICATION ADMINISTRATION -- ENTROPION AND ECTROPION -- EPIDURAL ANALGESIA ADMINISTRATION -- ESOPHAGEAL CANCER -- ESOPHAGEAL DIVERTICULA -- EXERCISE -- EYE MEDICATION ADMINISTRATION -- FALLS AND FALL PREVENTION -- FECAL DISIMPACTION -- FECAL INCONTINENCE -- FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY -- FOOT CARE -- GASTRIC CANCER -- GASTRIC SURGERY -- GASTRITIS -- GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX DISEASE -- GLAUCOMA -- GLUCOSE MONITORING -- GRIEF -- GROUP THERAPY -- HEARING AIDS -- HEART FAILURE -- HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT -- HEAT APPLICATION, DIRECT -- HEMODIALYSIS -- HERPES ZOSTER -- HIATAL HERNIA -- HIP FRACTURE -- HIP REPLACEMENT -- HOME SAFETY -- HYPEROSMOLAR HYPERGLYCEMIC NONKETOTIC SYNDROME -- HYPERTENSION -- HYPOTENSION, ORTHOSTATIC -- IMAGERY -- IMPLANTABLE CARDIOVERTER-DEFIBRILLATOR -- IMPOTENCE -- INCONTINENCE MANAGEMENT -- INDWELLING URINARY CATHETER INSERTION -- INFLUENZA -- INFORMED CONSENT -- INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION -- INTRAMUSCULAR INJECTION -- I.V. MEDICATION ADMINISTRATION -- KERATOSES -- LEUKEMIA -- LIFE-REVIEW THERAPY -- LUNG CANCER -- MACULAR DEGENERATION -- MAGNETIC FIELD THERAPY -- MAMMOGRAPHY -- MASTECTOMY -- MECHANICAL VENTILATION -- MEDITATION -- MELANOMA, MALIGNANT -- METABOLIC ACIDOSIS -- METABOLIC ALKALOSIS -- MUSIC THERAPY -- MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION -- NUTRITIONAL NEEDS -- OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER -- ORAL MEDICATION ADMINISTRATION -- OSTEOARTHRITIS -- OSTEOPOROSIS -- OSTOMY CARE -- OTOSCLEROSIS -- OXYGEN THERAPY -- PACEMAKER INSERTION -- PAIN MANAGEMENT -- PANCREATITIS -- PARKINSON'S DISEASE -- PATIENT-CONTROLLED ANALGESIA -- PATIENT SELF-DETERMINATION -- PEPTIC ULCER DISEASE -- PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE -- PERIPHERALLY INSERTED CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER INSERTION ANDCARE.

PERITONEAL DIALYSIS -- PERITONITIS -- PET THERAPY -- PLEURAL EFFUSION AND EMPYEMA -- PNEUMONIA -- POLYPHARMACY -- POTASSIUM DEFICIENCY -- POTASSIUM EXCESS -- POWER OF ATTORNEY -- PRAYER AND MENTAL HEALING -- PRESBYCUSIS -- PRESSURE ULCER PREVENTION -- PRESSURE ULCERS -- PRIVACY -- PROSTATE CANCER -- PROSTATECTOMY -- PULMONARY EDEMA -- RADIATION THERAPY -- RECTAL MEDICATION ADMINISTRATION -- REFUSAL OF TREATMENT -- RESPIRATORY ACIDOSIS -- RESPIRATORY ALKALOSIS -- RESTRAINT USE -- RETINAL DETACHMENT -- RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS -- SEPTIC SHOCK -- SEXUALITY -- SLEEP PATTERN DISTURBANCES -- SPECIALTY BEDS -- SPEECH THERAPY -- SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA -- STRESS -- SUBCUTANEOUS INJECTIONS -- SUBDURAL HEMATOMA -- SUCTIONING -- SUICIDE -- SURGICAL WOUND MANAGEMENT -- TEACHING THE ELDERLY ADULT -- TENS THERAPY -- THERAPEUTIC BATH -- THORACOTOMY -- THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY -- TOPICAL MEDICATION ADMINISTRATION -- TOTAL PARENTERAL NUTRITION -- TRACHEOSTOMY CARE -- TRACHEOTOMY -- TRANSDERMAL MEDICATION ADMINISTRATION -- TRANSFER TECHNIQUES -- TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK -- TUBERCULOSIS -- URINARY DIVERSION SURGERY -- URINARY INCONTINENCE -- URINARY TRACT INFECTION, LOWER -- URINE SPECIMEN COLLECTION -- VAGINAL MEDICATION ADMINISTRATION -- VALVULOPLASTY, BALLOON -- VASCULAR ACCESS PORT MANAGEMENT -- WOUND DEHISCENCE -- WOUND IRRIGATION -- YOGA THERAPY -- APPENDIX A PHYSIOLOGIC CHANGES IN AGING -- APPENDIX B LABORATORY VALUE CHANGES IN ELDERLY PATIENTS -- APPENDIX C LEVELS OF CARE -- APPENDIX D USING ANTIPSYCHOTICS IN LONG-TERM CARE FACILITIES -- APPENDIX E USING ANXIOLYTICS AND SEDATIVES IN LONG-TERM CARE FACILITIES -- APPENDIX F UNNECESSARY DRUGS IN LONG-TERM CARE FACILITIES -- APPENDIX G PREVENTING ADVERSE DRUG REACTIONS IN OLDER PATIENTS -- APPENDIX H ADVERSE REACTIONS MISINTERPRETED AS AGE-RELATED CHANGES -- APPENDIX I RESOURCES FOR GERIATRIC CARE -- SELECTED REFERENCES.

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