Care of Older Adults

Care of Older Adults: A Strengths-based Approach is a comprehensive introduction to aged care for the nursing profession in clinical practice.

By taking a strengths-based approach, the book encourages practice with a focus on individuals' potential and capacities rather than their limits. Theories of ageing are linked with the older individual's strengths to ensure the text is well framed from an evidence base, as well as a clinical orientation. The book presents the topic from a healthy ageing perspective through to chronic illness, frailty and end of life. Each chapter includes discussion and reflective questions, and concludes with a list of key points summarising the central content. Case studies combine evidence-based knowledge with practical examples in a number of aged-care settings.

Written by internationally renowned authors with extensive practical experience in aged care, Care of Older Adults provides undergraduate students in Australia and New Zealand with local content with a nursing focus.

About the Authors

Wendy is the Director of the Centre for Health Practice Innovation (HPI), a research programme in the Griffith Health Institute at Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland. She is also a research leader in a National Dementia Collaborative Research Centre – Consumers and Carers and the Dementia Training and Study Centre at Queensland University of Technology.

Associate Professor Deborah Parker is Director of the University of Queensland Blue Care Research and Practice Development Centre, a joint centre of the School of Nursing at the University of Queensland and Blue Care, and the Director of the Australian Centre for Evidence Based Community Care (ACEBCC), a collaborating centre of the Joanna Briggs Institute.

Marguerite is a Nurse Academic with a passion for improving clinical practice, education and research in aged care. Currently Marguerite is Project Manager for a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) funded project in the Centre for Health Practice Innovation (HPI), a research programme in the Griffith Health Institute at Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland.