{"title":"Overview of aging.","authors":"B. Hampton","doi":"10.1201/9781420093902-18","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The care of elderly persons involves complex assessments by educated and caring health providers. It requires sensitivity, gentleness, hard work, and patience. Those difficulties are offset, however, by the satisfaction gained from learning about the unique people we care for and from helping them cope with their illness.","PeriodicalId":77528,"journal":{"name":"Dimensions in oncology nursing : journal of the Division of Nursing","volume":"4 2 1","pages":"9-12"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1990-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"4","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Dimensions in oncology nursing : journal of the Division of Nursing","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1201/9781420093902-18","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The care of elderly persons involves complex assessments by educated and caring health providers. It requires sensitivity, gentleness, hard work, and patience. Those difficulties are offset, however, by the satisfaction gained from learning about the unique people we care for and from helping them cope with their illness.