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Chapter 4 Aging: Gerontological Nursing Research CONTENTS Enabling Physical Functioning Activities of Daily Living Bathing, Dressing, and Feeding Oral Hygiene Pressure Sores Elimination Mobility Physidogicd Coarol Mechanisms Medications and Compensatory Physiological Control Skep and Comfort Enhancing Self-Esteem Com~~puru'cation Mental and wective Domains Altered Mental Status Social Slappon Optimizing Environments of Care Selecting n Care Environment Concepts Related to Responses to Envirotunents Outcorns of Directed Change within Environments Conclusions and Directions for Future Research In the works and writings of Nightingale. nursing research and modem nursing were "twin-born" (Stewact, 1962). Similarly, modern gerontological nursing and its research were "twin-born" in the pioneering work of Norton, n McLaren, and kton- Smith (196211475). In a review of this ori'ginal research it was stated that "posterity may well say that it did as much to change the pattern of nursing in this century as Florence Nightingale's Notes om Nursing did in the last" (Spotlight on Geriatric Nursing, 1962, p. 388). Paralleling in time the Norton et al. (1975) research of nursing care of the aged in geriatric units of an English hospital was the research of Schwartz (1960), M. I. Brown (19691, and M. M. Brown (1970) in the United States. Schwark carried
Annual Review of Nursing Research – Springer Publishing
Published: Sep 1, 1986
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