Toward Healthy Aging: Human Needs & Nursing Response

by Priscilla Ebersole, Patricia A. Hess, Ann Schmidt Luggen

Toward Healthy Aging is a definitive, comprehensive source for health promotion and health maintenance in gerontologic nursing education. Noted for its use of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, this resource has been praised for wellness-based and holistic approach; comprehensive coverage of common, as well as not-so-common, conditions in the older adult; accuracy of content; and pedagogic aids that promote student understanding. This text provides a solid understanding of how to effectively provide holistic care, promote healthy lives, and addresses end-of-life issues and concerns for today's older adults and their families/caregivers.

816 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1985

About the author

Priscilla Ebersole, RN PhD FAAN