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Healthy Ageing and Aged Care
Paperback Edition: 2
A comprehensive and accessible introduction to the diverse aspects of ageing and aged care.
Healthy Ageing and Aged Care takes a person-centred approach to supporting older people within the community and in care. With relevance to a wide range of health practitioners, it brings to life healthy ageing, with a focus on wellness in primary and community care settings, as well as institutional care locations. Addressing attitudes, confronting stereotypes and challenging perceptions of aged care, it offers a new way of thinking about ageing based on stories and experiences of older people.
This second edition introduces students to recent changes in aged care, including the outcomes of the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety 2021 report, the impact of COVID on the older person and data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics into ageing, population growth and demographics.
As future health professionals, students will be engaged in learning through stories of older people, some of which are captured on video, the podcasts with authors and the written text. These are designed to challenge attitudes towards older people, opening the student to transformative learning. New knowledge can then be applied to clinical practice through the case studies in each chapter, encouraging the student to work with the older person so that appropriate support can be suggested to enhance quality of life.
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Publication date : 2022-04-14
Subjects: Non-fiction, Medicine, Health And Personal Development, Social Sciences, Medicine, Nursing, Sociology, Geriatric Medicine, Geriatric Nursing, Age Groups: The Elderly