Ensure you thoroughly understand the intricate details of providing effective care for adults as they age. Ebersole & Hess' Toward Healthy Aging, 10th Edition is the only comprehensive gerontological nursing text that effectively communicates how to provide holistic care, promote healthy lives, and address end-of-life issues and concerns. Grounded in the core competencies recommended by the AACN in collaboration with the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing, the tenth edition has been extensively revised and updated with shorter, more streamlined chapters and pedagogical features to facilitate learning. It covers the areas of safety and ethical considerations, genetics, communication with the patient and caregiver, promoting health in persons with conditions commonly occurring in later-life world-wide addressing loss and palliative care and much more. Special sections provide an honest look at the universal experience of aging and the nurse's role in the reduction of health disparities and inequities as a member of the global community. Plus, it contains a variety of new learning features that focus on applying research and thinking critically in when providing care to aging adults across the care continuum.UPDATED COPD guidelines ensure you understand the latest information used by clinicians. UPDATED Theories of Aging chapter discusses the latest covers current findings on this timely issue.UPDATED Information on medication use and misuse instructs you in what to look for when working with prescription medications. UPDATED chapters incorporate the latest information on timely topics such as Palliative Care and Sleep.UPDATED Wound care guidelines reflect nationally recognized standards. UPDATED Information on LGBT family relationships and sexuality in older adults.A Student Speaks and An Elder Speaks sections at the beginning of every chapter provide honest and candid thoughts from students and elders