This authoritative resource provides nurses and other health care professionals with a comprehensive overview and analysis of self-neglect in older adults. With an aging global population, self-neglect is emerging as a complex problem that crosses multiple disciplines of health and social care. Characterized by a harmful inattention to health and hygiene, self-neglect manifests in a variety of ways that health care professionals around the world need to be able to recognize and manage.
The only text with the latest analysis of theoretical perspectives, research, and evidence from global leaders in the field, this book tackles the interdisciplinary problem of self-neglect to deliver current professional practice tools and clinical practice interventions. Replete with case studies that examine the ethical, legal, and medical issues of self-neglect, the content is immediately applicable to researchers and clinicians. An extensive list of contributors from the United States, Ireland, England, Scotland, Australia, Israel, and Canada includes respected researchers, practitioners, and academics from multiple health and social care disciplines who have played a critical role in advancing research, public awareness, and policy on self-neglect.
Key Features:
Delivers multifaceted, cutting-edge information on self-neglect in older adults for nurses and related health care professionals
Addresses theory, research, evidence, assessment and measurement, and clinical practice interventions
Includes practical applications, case studies, and illustrations in each chapter
Authored by an international panel of authoritative leaders in gerontology
Provides debate and discussion on self-neglect that will promote further inquiry and research
Author Biography:
Mary Rose Day, DN, MA, PHN, RPHN, RM, RGN, is a nurse consultant in public health nursing and older adult care. Prior to this, she was a lecturer at the Catherine McAuley School of Nursing and Midwifery, University College Cork (UCC), Cork, Ireland.
Geraldine McCarthy, PhD, MSN, MEd, RNT, RGN, Fellow RCSI, is emeritus professor at the Catherine McAuley School of Nursing and Midwifery, University County Cork (UCC), Cork, Ireland, and chair of the South/South West Hospital Group, which comprises nine hospitals in the South of Ireland.
Joyce J. Fitzpatrick, PhD, MBA, RN, FAAN, is Elizabeth Brooks Ford Professor of Nursing, Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, where she was Dean from 1982 through 1997. She is also Professor, Department of Geriatrics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY. In 1990, Dr. Fitzpatrick received an honorary doctorate, Doctor of Humane Letters, from her alma mater, Georgetown University. In 2011 she received an honorary doctorate, Doctor of Humane Letters, from the Frontier University of Nursing. She has received numerous honors and awards; she was elected a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing in 1981 and a Fellow in the National Academies of Practice in 1996. She received the American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award 18 times. Dr. Fitzpatrick is widely published in nursing and health care literature with over 300 publications. She served as co-editor of the Annual Review of Nursing Research series, vols. 1-26; she edits the journals Applied Nursing Research, Archives in Psychiatric Nursing, and Nursing Education Perspectives, the official journal of the National League for Nursing. She edited three editions of the classic Encyclopedia of Nursing Research (ENR), and a series of nursing research digests
