Assessing the Elderly

This enhanced and expanded CE booklet delivers important information nurses need to perform quality assessments of older adults.

Includes interview and assessment strategies and key components of overall health and nutritional status.

Describes how physical, social, emotional, and psychological factors alter the way elders function and provides an analysis of how disease presentations change with age.

Essential tools for assessing mental status, depression and mental confusion, and differentiating delirium from dementia