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Growth and Development Across the Lifespan: A Health Promotion Focus
Gloria Leifer, MA, RN;
and Heidi Jaclin Hartston, PhD

2004 | 320 pp., illustd
ISBN: 978-0-7216-9879-3

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This book provides a solid introduction to growth and development throughout the lifespan. The content emphasizes normal aspects, as well as the unique problems and health promotion needs, of each age and stage of development. It's everything students need to know about lifespan considerations when developing plans of care for patients at every age and every stage!
   
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TABLE OF CONTENTS


  1. Healthy People 2010
  2. Government Influences on Health Care
  3. The Influence of Family on Developing a Lifestyle
  4. Theories of Development
  5. Prenatal Influences on Healthy Development
  6. The Infant
  7. Early Childhood
  8. Middle Childhood
  9. Adolescence
  10. Young Adulthood
  11. Middle Adulthood
  12. Late Adulthood
  13. Geriatrics: Advanced Old-Age
  14. Planning for the End of a Generation
  15. Bereavement

Appendixes
Appendix A: Immunization Schedules
   (1) Recommended Adult Immunization Schedule, United States, 2002-2003
   (2) Recommended Immunizations for Adults with Medical Conditions, United States, 2002-2003
Appendix B: Paradigm of Cultural Influence Across the Lifespan


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