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Contents
- Chapter 1 Ageing through time
- Chapter 2 Psychosocial context of ageing
- Chapter 3 Ageism, sexism, and racism
- Chapter 4 Health and health promotion
- Chapter 5 Caring and service provision
- Chapter 6 Spirituality and culture
- Chapter 7 Normal ageing
- Chapter 8 Hypo- and hyperthermia
- Chapter 9 Stroke
- Chapter 10 Idiopathic Parkinson's disease
- Chapter 11 Diabetes and the older person
- Chapter 12 Heart failure
- Chapter 13 Cancer
- Chapter 14 Palliative care
- Chapter 15 Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and the older person
- Chapter 16 Mental health and older people
- Chapter 17 Osteoporosis
- Chapter 18 The nurse's role
- Chapter 19 Nurse prescribing
- Chapter 20 Patient discharge
- Chapter 21 Nursing assessment
- Chapter 22 Communication
- Chapter 23 Nutrition and hydration
- Chapter 24 Rehabilitation
- Chapter 25 Falls
- Chapter 26 Infection control
- Chapter 27 Pressure ulcer prevention and management
- Chapter 28 Incontinence management and prevention
- Chapter 29 Medicines management
- Chapter 30 Pain control
- Chapter 31 Older people in prison
- Chapter 32 Older people and learning disability
- Chapter 33 Alcohol misuse
- Chapter 34 Safeguarding vulnerable adults