The seventh edition of this classic multidisciplinary text for students of gerontology continues to offer practical, user-friendly, and comprehensive information about the physical changes and common pathologies associated with the aging process. Fully updated with current information regarding diagnosis, risk factors, prevention recommendations, treatment approaches, and medications along with new statistics on prevalence and evidence-based clinical guidelines, this textbook focuses on physical changes and common pathologies of aging, while also considering the psychological and social implications with which they are inextricably linked.Through a systems-based approach, positive aspects of aging are emphasized, showing the reader how older adults can gain greater personal control through lifestyle changes and preventive health strategies. Included is important content related to teaching, health, and well-being, such as nutrition, medications, aging with lifelong disabilities, complementary and alternative therapies, and death and dying. The seventh edition features a new chapter on gerontechnology, with new content on the influence of pandemics, including COVID-19, on death, dying, grieving, and funeral rituals. This multifaceted text also delivers new and updated information on diagnosis and treatment, along with stressed behaviors and interventions to promote more personal control the individual aging process. Helpful appendices include practical suggestions for improving safety for older adults and websites of relevant organizations, along with a glossary of medical terms used in the text. Purchase includes digital access for use on most mobile devices or computers. New to the Seventh Edition: A brand-new chapter on gerontechnology Updated information on diagnosis and treatment, risk factors, and prevention recommendations New statistics for prevalence and clinical guidelines/recommendations Focus on behaviors and interventions providing personal control over aging process Practical suggestions for improving older adult safety Influence of COVID-19 on death, dying, grieving, and funeral rituals Test bank and PowerPoint slides Key Features: A unique systems-based approach covering the anatomy and physiology of each organ system Focuses on common health problems within each body system Addresses psychological and social implications of aging Provides evidence-based treatment strategies Describes practical applications of aging data - how to use the data to so adults can gain greater personal freedom Useful as textbook, practitioner's guide and family caregiver resource
Sue V. Saxon, PhD, is professor emeritus at the School of Aging Studies, University of South Florida. She received her PhD in developmental psychology and counseling from Florida State University and pursued additional graduate work in physiological psychology at the University of Wisconsin. Dr. Saxon was a research psychologist for the National Institutes of Health and for the Laboratory of Perinatal Physiology at the University of Puerto Rico Medical School, before joining the faculty in behavioral sciences at the University of South Florida. As a charter faculty member in the Aging Studies program, she has developed and taught numerous courses in aging as well as presented workshops, given in-service training, and authored a number of books and book chapters on aging. She has been designated a Gerontological Pioneer for outstanding achievement and exemplary contributions to the field of gerontology by the Southern Gerontological Society. Mary Jean Etten, EdD, GNP, CMP, FT, has been a tenured full professor in the College of Nursing at St. Petersburg College, where she taught nursing, gerontology, and thanatology and developed an innovative curriculum teaching hospice care to nurses. She is currently an adjunct lecturer in thanatology in the School of Aging Studies at the University of South Florida. Dr. Etten received her doctoral degree in education from Nova Southeastern University and master's degrees in gerontology, counseling, and nursing from the University of South Florida. Dr. Etten is also a gerontological nurse practitioner. She is a fellow in thanatology and is board certified as a music practitioner. She has authored several books and manuals, as well as journal articles. She was a founder of Suncoast Hospice in 1978 and has remained on its boards for more than 43 years. In 2012 a building at Suncoast Hospice was dedicated in her honor. Dr. Etten serves on the Empath Health board and several other boards. Recently she co-authored the book A Caring Sanctuary: Forty Years of Caring. She received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Tampa Bay Business Journal in 2013. Elizabeth A. Perkins, PhD, RNLD, FAAIDD, FGSA, is a research associate professor and associate director of the Florida Center for Inclusive Communities--a University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities--at the University of South Florida (USF). She has a PhD in aging studies from the School of Aging Studies at USF. Dr. Perkins is also an RNLD (a registered nurse in the field of developmental disabilities) who trained at the Hereford and Worcestershire College of Nursing and Midwifery in England. She has published numerous journal articles on topics ranging from aging, aging with intellectual and developmental disabilitiles, and caregiver quality of life. She was a guest editor for a Special Issue on Aging and End-of-Life for the American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. Dr. Perkins is a fellow and past president of the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD), and previously chaired AAIDD's Gerontology Division. Dr. Perkins is also a fellow of the Gerontological Society of America (GSA), and a former co-convener of their Special Interest Group on Lifelong Disabilities. In 2020, she was a National Honoree of the National Historic Recognition Project for her significant contributions to the field of intellectual and development disabilities (IDD) in the United States between 2000 and 2020.
1 Perspectives and Theories on Aging 2 The Skin, Hair, and Nails 3 The Musculoskeletal System 4 The Nervous System 5 Dementia and Delirium 6 The Sensory System 7 The Cardiovascular System 8 The Respiratory System 9 The Gastrointestinal System 10 The Urinary System 11 The Reproductive System 12 The Endocrine System 13 The Immune System 14 Aging with Lifelong Disabilities 15 Special Topics 16 Health Promotion and Healthy Aging 17 Complementary and Alternative Therapies 18 Nutrition 19 Medications 20 Teaching Older Adults 21 Gerotechnology 22 Caregiving 23 Death and Grief in the Later Years Appendix A Practical Hints for the Safety of Older Adults Appendix B Resources Glossary
Praise for the new edition: "In this 7th edition of Physical Change and Aging: A Guide for the Helping Professions the authors, Drs. Saxon, Etten and Perkins, bring to all health care professionals and those interacting with older adults a multidisciplinary foundational reference with state of the art and science approaches to caring for aging persons in our society. This comprehensive book provides geriatric care principles for the expert care provider as well as the novice learner in one book through a compelling reading style that transforms complex principles into simple to comprehend and apply principles." - Marion Newton, PhD, RN, BSN, MN, PMHCNS-BC, PMHNP-BC, ANEF
