Growth and Development Across the Lifespan

Promote healthy behaviors and healthy lifestyles throughout the life cycle! Growth and Development Across the Lifespan, 3rd Edition helps you plan and implement appropriate care for patients at each age and stage of life. Explaining concepts of physical, cognitive, social, and personality development, this text provides strategies for improving patient health and quality of life for each age group. Healthy People 2030 objectives are used to set a framework for positive health behaviors. From noted educators and authors Gloria Leifer and Eve Fleck, this book shows how a knowledge of normal growth and aberrations can be used to design individual approaches to patient care.

• Patient teaching strategies are provided for every development stage, providing age-appropriate patient education tips.
• Cultural influences on health are included in a separate Cultural Considerations in Health Care chapter and in special boxes throughout the tex