Self-Neglect in Older Adults: A Global, Evidence-Based Resource for Nurses and Other Healthcare Providers / Edition 1

by Mary Rose Day DN, MA, PHN, RPHN, RM, RGN, Geraldine McCarthy PhD, MSN, MEd, DipN, RNYT, RGN, Fellow RCSI, Joyce J. Fitzpatrick PhD, MBA, RN, FAAN

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826140821
Publisher:	Springer Publishing Company
Publication date:	08/18/2017
Pages:	400
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

CONTENTS

Contributors

Foreword by Terry Fulmer, PhD, RN, FAAN

Preface

SECTION I: PRACTICAL AND THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES

1. My Mother’s Life and Self-Neglect

Joan O’Leary*

2. Self-Neglect: Toward Conceptual Clarity

Mary Rose Day

SECTION II: ISSUES CONCERNING THE SELF-NEGLECTING INDIVIDUAL

3. Mental Health Issues and Self-Neglect

Barbara Cohen

4. Delirium and Self-Neglect

Graham J. McDougall and Marietta P. Stanton

5. Hoarding: Features, Assessment, and Intervention Strategies

May Luu and Sheila R. Woody

6. Animal Hoarding

Bronwen Williams

7. Farm Animals and Farmers: Neglect Issues

Catherine Devitt and Alison Hanlon

8. Environmental Neglect

John Snowdon and Graeme Halliday

9. Self-Neglect and Decision Making

Jessica L. Lee

SECTION III: THE SERVICE RESPONDS

10. Self-Neglect: An Issue in Acute Care

Kieran A. O’Connor

11. Medical Perspectives of Self-Neglect: An Issue for Health and Social Care

Josephine P. Gomes and James G. O’Brien

12. Home Care Nurses and Self-Neglect

Yvonne O. Johnson

13. Health and Social Care Professionals’ Perspectives of Self-Neglect

Helen Mulcahy, Patricia Leahy-Warren, and Mary Rose Day

14. Adult Safeguarding and Self-Neglect: Emergent Lessons From England

Suzy Braye, David Orr, and Michael Preston-Shoot

15. Practice Wisdom: Professional Responses to Self-Neglect in Israel

Toya Band-Winterstein, Israel Doron, and Sigal Naim

16. How the City of Chicago Addresses the Issue of Self-Neglect Among Seniors

Paul Dowling and Katharine Slover

SECTION IV: RESEARCH EVIDENCE

17. Self-Neglect: A Statewide Assessment in Vermont

Kelly Melekis

18. Medication Use and Polypharmacy in Older Adults With Substantiated Self-Neglect: A Case Study

Jason Burnett, Leslie E. Clark, Sharon Abada, Kimberlee Parker, Renee J. Flores, and Kathleen Pace-Murphy

19. Self-Neglect in Ireland: A Pilot Study

David McCann

SECTION V: ASSESSMENT AND MEASUREMENT OF SELF-NEGLECT

20. Short-Form Elder Self-Neglect Assessment

Madelyn A. Iris

21. Making and Executing Decisions for Safe and Independent Living (MEDSAIL): A Screening Tool for Community-Dwelling Older Adults

Whitney L. Mills and Aanand D. Naik

22. Self-Neglect: Development and Evaluation of a Self-Neglect (SN-37) Measurement Instrument

Mary Rose Day and Geraldine McCarthy

SECTION VI: ETHICAL AND EDUCATIONAL ISSUES

23. Self-Neglect Among Older Adults: Professional Education and Preparation for Practice

Eleanor Bantry White and Julie Bach

24. A Self-Neglecting Case Dilemma: Applying an Ethical Decision-Making Tool

Mary Rose Day and Joan McCarthy

25. Summary and Conclusion

Geraldine McCarthy, Joyce J. Fitzpatrick, and Mary Rose Day

Index

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* Pseudonym.

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Melody L.W. Schrock, BSN, RAC-CT(University of Missouri)
Description: This book covers an often overlooked public health issue: self-neglect among older people. It discusses the varying aspects of self-neglect and includes personal accounts as examples, which provide great insights and help readers gain a different perspective of the issue. The accompanying ebook is a benefit for the on-the-go reader.
Purpose: The purpose is to shine a light on a subject that may often be overlooked in the community. It provides examples, personal and professional, with evidence-based interventions and approaches to address varying types of self-neglect.
Audience: The audience ranges from students to advanced providers. The easy-to-follow format and personalization keeps readers' attention and provides insights from multiple points of view. The authors bring varied backgrounds and vast knowledge to the book.
Features: The book is divided into six easy-to-follow sections with information about and discussion of self neglect, potential mental health issues, and the possible physical and psychosocial results of self-neglect. It discusses the multifaceted aspects of self neglect, from hoarding to not following medical recommendations, as well as identification and potential interventions. The use of personal experiences provides a point of view from those closest to the problem and enables readers to see both sides of potentially harmful situations.
Assessment: This book covers a subject that has been more in the limelight with television shows on hoarding, obesity, etc., and the possible mental illness that may contribute to self-neglect. It provides personal and medical insights about providing care to this population.

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