Geriatrics

Assisted Living: Needs, Practices, and Policies in Residential Care for the Elderly

Practical UseThis is built for repeat use. Readers can move through weak areas, return to questions, and use rationales or blueprint structure to guide the next study pass.Subject FocusGuideline, policy, or evidence-based material gives the book a useful connection to current ...

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Practical Use

This is built for repeat use. Readers can move through weak areas, return to questions, and use rationales or blueprint structure to guide the next study pass.

Subject Focus

  • Guideline, policy, or evidence-based material gives the book a useful connection to current practice standards.
  • Nursing coverage centers the reading around care planning, judgment, and patient-facing decisions.

Overview

Assisted Living: Needs, Practices, and Policies in Residential Care for the Elderly reads as a certification and exam review title built around nursing and evidence-based practice. That gives it a clearer role than a general survey text.

Likely Readers

The natural reader is students, residents, nurses, and clinicians preparing for board or certification exams. A casual browser may miss the point; this is more useful when the buyer already has a course, rotation, certification, or clinical problem in mind.

Editorial Notes

The tone is best approached as professional reference material. It should reward readers who need precise terminology and a clear route back to the subject later.

Book Details

Author Sheryl Zimmerman PhD, Philip D. Sloane MD MPH, J. Kevin Eckert PhD, M. Powell Lawton
Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication Date November 30, 2001
Language English
Print Length 364 pages
ISBN-13 978-0801877216
Format Hardcover