Health Promotion Throughout the Lifespan

Health Promotion Throughout the Lifespan is a comprehensive
textbook that covers all major concepts of health promotion and
disease prevention. Its currency, comprehensiveness, and readability
are just a few of the strengths it is noted for. The focus on health
promotion makes it useful in many courses in community health
nursing, and its comprehensive coverage of growth and
development makes it attractive as a primary text for separate courses
in this area as well. Practicing nurses also find it valuable as a
clinical resource, as noted by the award bestowed on a previous
edition by a nurse practitioner organization. The lifespan approach
addresses health promotion for all age groups. The assessment
framework is based on Gordon's Functional Health Patterns.
Health promotion is presented for all population groups: individuals,
families, and communities.

An attractive two-color design highlights the many special features
in the book. The fifth edition includes several new features that
emphasize practical clinical interventions, such as Case Studies, Care
Plans that promote wellness, and Innovative Practice boxes. The word
client has been replaced with person or individual to reflect
the current emphasis on empowering the consumers of health care.

· Presents an assessment framework based on Gordon's Functional Health Patterns to provide consistency in presentation of material and an approach that is line with the promotion of health
· Provides extensive coverage of growth and development throughout the lifespan with an emphasis on normal aspects as well as the unique problems and health promotion needs of each age and stage of development
· Offers separate chapters on each population group - individual, family, and community - to stress the unique issues found in providing care to each group
· Presents Objectives and Key Terms at the beginning of each chapter to highlight the most important concepts and terms in the chapter
· Addresses various cultural perspectives that need to be considered in planning care in Multicultural Awareness boxes
· Introduces significant issues, trends, and controversies in health promotion through Hot Topics boxes to engage students in critical discussion and debate about these topics
· Offers an attractive, contemporary two-colour design with special designs for the key features and many new photographs that portray diverse health care situations to create an inviting, accessible presentation

· Incorporates Case Studies that depict actual clinical situations to give students a real-life perspective
· Presents Care Plans that detail health promotion efforts for various populations and clinical situations
· Presents Innovative Practice examples to highlight unique and creative health promotion programs and projects currently being implemented
· Provides a Glossary in the back of the book that includes definitions for each Key Term to provide easy access to definitions of important terms

Private Practice, Professional Geriatric Care Management, Westchester County, New York.