First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.

- NEW! Expanded and updated art program enhances content with original photos and line art - NEW! NCLEX-PN Review questions at the end of each chapter include alternate item formats and cover all chapter objectives. - NEW! Reorganized chapters make it easier for you to follow and understand the material.

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.

Health tips about healthy eating patterns, the components of a well-constructed diet, the importance of major food groups in maintaining good health, and foods that may need to be limited.