NUR205 Perspectives on Aging: Background Information

Overview of all aspects of aging as studied through the disciplines of biology, medicine, economics, law, psychology, sociology, and history.

Includes public policy issues, and real-world problems of seniors and younger Americans who must care directly for parents or share indirectly in the economic and social cost.

A-to-Z reference that defines the causes, cures, key research, medical terms, symptoms, treatments, and trends of each field of study.

Contains 250 entries and relevant appendices that cover: biological; psychological; social; and economic aspects of health and aging and impacts within health-care systems.

Covers major areas of aging research including medical, biological, behavioral, social, and environmental.

Focuses on the notions of how to care for the elderly patient.

Contains over 600 entries on education, death and dying, family development, parenting, cognitive development, mental health, language and communications, personality, social development and behavior, substance abuse, and research methods and measurement.

Nearly 250 entries provide biographies, definitions, and theories about cultural and religious belief systems.

Covers all aspects of death and dying. Provides a deep historical and cross-cultural perspective through the ages.

Presents information about the grim phenomenon that robs society of productive lives and leaves family and friends scarred for life.

Provides basic consumer information about end-of-life care and related perspectives, including end-of-life symptoms and treatments, pain management, quality-of-life concerns, patients' rights and privacy issues, caregiving, organ donation, funeral arrangement, and legal and economic issues associated with end-of-life. Includes index, glossary of related terms, and other resources.