Nursing older people : issues and innovations. /

Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: Part 1 Contextual issues and innovations Chapter 1. Funding and policy in residential care in Australia / Mary Courtney, Brian Abbey and Jennifer Abbey -- Chapter 2. Do elderly people cost more? Casemix funding in acute settings / Stephen Duckett and Terri Jackson -- Chapter 3. Clinical safety and quality in residential aged care / Elizabeth Percival -- Vignettes: Suzanne Sawyer and Elizabeth Pringle -- Chapter 4. Nursing workforce issues in aged care / Rhonda Nay -- Vignette: June Heinrich -- Chapter 5. Rights, regulations and aged aged-care practice / John Field and Sally Garratt -- Vignette: Phillip Abbott -- Chapter 6. Care of people from Indigenous and culturally diverse backgrounds / Irene Stein -- Vignette: Regina Barry -- Chapter 7. Understanding community nursing for older individuals and carers / Libby Brooke and Hal Kendig -- Chapter 8. Rural gerontic nursing in Australia / Elizabeth Lavender and Helen Keleher -- Chapter 9. Acute care of older people: a geriatrician's perspective / Philip Street -- Vignette: Margaret Winbolt -- Chapter 10. Public participation and individual control / Barb Fiveash and Robin Watts --Vignette: Barbara Potter -- Part 2 Clinical issues and innovations Chapter 11. Mental health issues / Sally Garratt -- Vignette: Maria McIntosh -- Chapter 12. Dementia, mental health and issues of abuse in aged care / Sarah Mott and Beth Kingsley -- Chapter 13. The experience of chronic illness: a phenomenological approach / Mary FitzGerald and Eleanor Horton -- Vignette: Craig Lockwood -- Chapter 14. Medication issues / Helen Baker and Adriana Tiziani -- Chapter 15. Physical restraints: can we free older people? / Susan Koch -- Vignette: Daniel Olivieri and Dianne Johnson -- Chapter 16. Palliative care / Jennifer Abbey -- Vignette: Karen Glaetzer -- Chapter 17. Sexuality and older people / Rhonda Nay -- Vignette: Helen Page -- Chapter 18. Contemporary care planning / Bill Koch -- Vignette: Steven Demeye -- Part 3 Research issues and innovation Chapter 19. Evidence-based nursing: quality through research / Alan Pearson -- Vignette: Bart O'Brien -- Chapter 20. Bedtimes in nursing homes: an action research approach / Annette Street -- Vignette: Rosalie Hudson -- Chapter 21. Current and future trends in gerontic nursing research / Bill Koch and Adriana Tiziani -- Vignette: Anne Pitcher.