Decisions for Healthy Living or Ethical Patient Care

Decisions for Healthy Living

Author: BE E Pruitt

Decisions for Healthy Living is a brief book that focuses on the Rnuts and boltsS of personal health, giving readers all the basic tools they need for healthy living. The clear and friendly writing style keeps readers engaged and interested in the material, without bogging them down in technical details or making judgments about their personal health choices. Decisions for Healthy Living makes ample use of case studies, self-assessment activities, special interest boxes, journal activities, and other engaging exercises to help readers become informed consumers and make positive behavioral changes in their lives.For college instructors, students, and readers interested in health and wellness.

Table of Contents:

I. INTRODUCTORY CONCEPTS.

1. Health: Your Personal Responsibility.

II. THE BASICS OF GOOD HEALTH.

2. Managing Your Mental Health.
3. Coping with Stress.
4. Eating Smart.
5. Maintaining Proper Weight.
6. Keeping Fit.

III. CONTROLLABLE HEALTH RISKS.

7. The Health Effects of Smoking and Drinking.
8. Understanding the Dangers of Drug Use.
9. The Health Threats of Unintentional Injuries and Violence.

IV. UNDERSTANDING THE DISEASE PROCESS.

10. Reducing the Risk for Chronic Disease.
11. Reducing the Risk for Infectious Disease.

V. SEXUALITY AND RELATIONSHIPS: A LIFE SPAN APPROACH.

12. Sexuality: Developing Healthy Relationships.
13. Planning a Family.
14. Healthy Aging:Growing Older and Facing the End ofLife.

VI. PARTICIPATING IN A HEALTHY COMMUNITY.

15. Living in a Healthy Environment.
16. Making Health Care Decisions.
Appendix. Your Sexual Body: A Primer on Reproductive Anatomyand Physiology.
Study Guide.

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Ethical Patient Care: A Casebook for Geriatric Health Care Teams

Author: Mathy Doval Mezey

The delivery of good medical care often involves professionals from various disciplines working together. Interdisciplinary health care teams can be especially valuable in managing patients with complex medical and social needs, such as older persons in hospital, community, or home settings. Such teams, however, can also complicate or even create problems because of their diverse views and responsibilities. Ethical Patient Care: A Casebook for Geriatric Health Care Teams is designed to teach effective and responsible group decision making to clinicians working in teams to treat older patients.

The editors use the case study method to present ethical dilemmas that team members encounter in the management of geriatric patients. Patients with multiple chronic conditions so often require the care of more than one medical specialist, and in the introductory chapters the editors suggest ways to resolve conflicts among patients, health care professionals, and the institutions that support them, including hospitals, HMOs, insurance companies, and the government. The book is then divided into four sections, each dealing with one angle of the team-care picture. The first section treats the diverse ethical imperatives of various professionals, conflicts among disciplinary approaches, and and varying attitudes toward end-of-life- decision making. Section two focuses on the patient and covers patient confidentiality, family decisionmaking and interaction with the healthcare team, issues of patient and team nonadherence to the care plan, and elder abuse and neglect. Section three examines the emerging difficulties of decentralized health care in settings such as hospitals, nursinghomes, and the home, including clinician accountability and how ethical dilemmas differ across settings. Section four discusses the problems arising from the increasing responsibility of clinicians to manage costs and serve the interests of hospitals and insurers. Ethical Patient Care is a valuable resource for bioethicists, gerontologists, and the physicians, nurses, social workers, and therapists who care for aging persons.

Beatrice M. Robbins

This is a timely exploration of the ethical issues being encountered on a daily basis by geriatric practitioners. The combination of instructional chapters providing a theoretical framework with chapters outlining cases yields a very useful and practical text.

Peter V. Rabins

I know of no other volume that addresses the ethical issues raised by team care in such depth.

Doody Review Services

Reviewer: Deborah Kuhn Bruley, MS, RN (University of Illinois at Chicago College of Nursing)
Description: This book uses case analyses to teach ethical geriatric care from an interdisciplinary team perspective. Most chapters include discussion questions or small group activities to assist learning.
Purpose: The book facilitates the education and training of healthcare professionals in the area of ethical geriatric care from an interdisciplinary perspective and approach. This interdisciplinary team approach is greatly needed in the current healthcare climate and is applicable to today's clinical practice. By gathering authors from many different disciplines and levels of healthcare, the authors have contributed greatly to our understanding of the theoretical and practical issues involved in supplying ethical geriatric care.
Audience: The entire healthcare team is targeted, including physicians, nurses, social workers, pharmacists, and other healthcare professionals. Throughout the book, these various professions are represented in authorship, examples, and references. Drawing from a large group of contributors, this book is applicable for all healthcare professions.
Features: The book provides an overview of ethical geriatric principles and how they apply in many different cases, with particular attention given to the results of their application for patients, families, healthcare professionals, and healthcare systems. By including discussion questions and small group activities with most chapters, educational activities are facilitated. However, inclusion of additional tables and graphs would have clarified some of the processes described in narrative.
Assessment: This is a wonderful addition to the libraries of both educators and clinicians. Its up-to-date examples of the complex issues involved in providing ethical geriatric care present thought-provoking educational material as well as guidance in providing interdisciplinary healthcare. Although examples are of geriatric cases, their applicability in discussing ethical healthcare for other populations can be easily seen. I know of no other book with this up-to-date, unique perspective on providing ethical patient care to elderly patients and their families.

Booknews

Designed to promote effective and responsible group decision-making for inter-disciplinary health care teams, this book uses case studies to illustrate ethical problems related to the management of geriatric patients. Specific methods are outlined for resolving conflicts between patients, health care professionals, and medical institutions. Seventeen chapters consider the role of professionals, the interests of care recipients, teamwork, and the impact of organization on team care. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Rating

3 Stars from Doody