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Self-neglect in older adults : a global, evidence-based resource for nurses and other health care providers

Author(s):
Day, Mary Rose, editor
McCarthy, Geraldine, 1950-, editor
Fitzpatrick, Joyce J, 1944-, editor
Title(s):
Self-neglect in older adults : a global, evidence-based resource for nurses and other health care providers / Mary Rose Day, Geraldine McCarthy, Joyce J. Fitzpatrick, editors.
Country of Publication:
United States
Publisher:
New York : Springer Publishing Company, [2018]
Description:
xviii, 379 pages : illustrations
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780826140821
9780826140838 (e-book)
LCCN:
2017020894
MeSH:
Activities of Daily Living/psychology
Aged*
Evidence-Based Medicine
Health Services for the Aged
Self Care/psychology
Self-Injurious Behavior*
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
My mother's life and self-neglect / Joan O'Leary (Pseudonym) -- Self-neglect : toward conceptual clarity / Mary Rose Day -- Mental health issues and self-neglect / Barbara Cohen -- Delirium and self-neglect / Graham J. McDougall and Marietta P. Stanton -- Hoarding : features, assessment, and intervention strategies / Mary Luu and Shelia R. Woody -- Animal hoarding / Bronwen Williams -- Farm animals and farmers : neglect issues / Catherine Devitt and Alison Hanlon -- Environmental neglect / John Snowdon and Graeme Halliday -- Self-neglect and decision making / Jessica L. Lee -- Self-neglect : an issue in acute care / Kieran A. O'Connor -- Medical perspectives of self-neglect : an issue for health and social care / Josephine P. Gomes and James G. O'Brien -- Home care nurses and self-neglect / Yvonne O. Johnson -- Health and social care professionals' perspectives of self-neglect / Helen Mulcahy, Patricia Leahy-Warren, and Mary Rose Day -- Adult safeguarding and self-neglect : emergent lessons from England / Suzy Braye, David Orr, and Michael Preston-Shoot -- Practice wisdom : professional responses to self-neglect in Israel / Tova Band-Winterstein, Israel Doron, and Sigal Naim -- How the city of Chicago addresses the issue of self-neglect among seniors / Paul Dowling and Katharine Slover -- Self-neglect : a statewide assessment in Vermont / Kelly Melekis -- Medication use and polypharmacy in older adults with substantiated self-neglect : a case study / Jason Burnett, Leslie E. Clark, Sharon Abada, Kimberlee Parker, Renee J. Flores, and Kathleen Pace-Murphy -- Self-neglect in Ireland : a pilot study / David McCann -- The short-form elder self-neglect assessment / Madelyn A. Iris -- Making and executing decisions for safe and independent living (MEDSAIL) : a screening tool for community-dwelling older adults / Whitney L. Mills and Aanand D. Naik -- Self-neglect : development and evaluation of a self-neglect (SN-37) measurement instrument / Mary Rose Day and Geraldine McCarthy -- Self-neglect among older adults : professional education and preparation for practice / Eleanor Bantry White and Julie Bach -- A self-neglecting case dilemma : applying an ethical decision-making tool / Mary Rose Day and Joan McCarthy.
NLM ID:
101704847 [Book]

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