Product Description

Elder care has become a growing concern for many families, communities, health professionals, and the many establishments that provide living arrangements for the elderly. To work in elder care, as a professional caregiver or a family care provider, requires a command of current information from multiple disciples, including nursing, medicine, social work, counseling, as well as dentistry and physical therapy. Now, for the first time, this information has been gathered in a single source.

THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ELDER CARE features nearly three hundred articles providing practical information on how to care for elders. Written by more than three hundred experts, this accessible state-of-the-art resource addresses home care, including family-based care; nursing-home care; rehabilitation; case management; social services; assisted living; palliative care; and more.

Each article concludes with references to pertinent Web sites. Easy to read and extensively cross-referenced, this comprehensive resource on geriatric and social care will be an indispensable tool for all who care for our nation's elders.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1105679 in Books
• Published on: 2004-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 824 pages

Review
"Just about any question one might have is answered in this book..." -- Bookviews.com, November 2004

About the Author
Mathy D. Mezey, RN, EDD, has been the Independence Foundation Professor of Nursing Education at New York University since 1991, and the director of the John A. Hartford Foundation Institute for the Advancement of Geriatric Nursing Practice since 1996. She is the author of five books and over fifty publications that focus on nursing care of the elderly.

Customer Reviews

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A comprehensive and well-sourced guidebook to Elder Care. I think this book will take the place of ten others in my library due to the myriad topics which are addressed and the expertise of the contributors.

The Encyclopedia of Elder Care by Mezey and others (eds.)

This encyclopedia has one editor-in-chief, seven associate editors, one managing editor, and 23 advisory board members with a variety of experiences. The preface presents the conceptual framework of four major concepts and 14 subtopics. They are: 1. Society: The social and policy issues important in caring for elders-gerontological health care providers, financing coverage and costs of health care for elders, and organizations in aging; 2. Community: The structural supports and circumstances necessary to care for elderly-special characteristics of various care locations, provider and institutional interactions across the health care continuum; 3. Caregiving and Family: Issues important for family and professional caregivers-caregiver issues, and technology support for elders and caregivers; 4. Patient: Issues specific to diagnosis, treatment, and disease management-clinical assessment, prevention, symptom management, geriatric syndromes and major diseases of the elderly, disease management, issues in providing health care for specific racial/ethnic elder populations, and pharmacology and appropriate prescribing. That is followed by a four page list of contributors. Then there is an alphabetical listing of topics that generally include the subject title, also see topics, internet key words, and internet resources. The topics have varying levels of comprehensiveness. Many are very informative and comprehensive. Pages 691-748 are references; 749-780 are the subject index, and 781-783 are the contributor index. This encyclopedia contains information about issues significant for health care providers caring for older people. It is an excellent reference book.