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Fragility fracture nursing : holistic care and management of the orthogeriatric patient

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This open access book aims to provide a comprehensive but practical overview of the knowledge required for the assessment and management of the older adult with or at risk of fragility fracture. It considers this from the perspectives of all of the settings in which this group of patients receive nursing care.

Globally, a fragility fracture is estimated to occur every 3 seconds. This amounts to 25 000 fractures per day or 9 million per year. The financial costs are reported to be: 32 billion EUR per year in Europe and 20 billon USD in the United States. As the population of China ages, the cost of hip fracture care there is likely to reach 1.25 billion USD by 2020 and 265 billion by 2050 (International Osteoporosis Foundation 2016). Consequently, the need for nursing for patients with fragility fracture across the world is immense. Fragility fracture is one of the foremost challenges for health care providers, and the impact of each one of those expected 9 million hip fractures is significant pain, disability, reduced quality of life, loss of independence and decreased life expectancy.

There is a need for coordinated, multi-disciplinary models of care for secondary fracture prevention based on the increasing evidence that such models make a difference. There is also a need to promote and facilitate high quality, evidence-based effective care to those who suffer a fragility fracture with a focus on the best outcomes for recovery, rehabilitation and secondary prevention of further fracture. The care community has to understand better the experience of fragility fracture from the perspective of the patient so that direct improvements in care can be based on the perspectives of the users.

This book supports these needs by providing a comprehensive approach to nursing practice in fragility fracture care.

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617.150846 FRA f

Publisher

Cham, Switzerland : Springer Open., 2018

Collation

xx, 158p. : ill.

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9783319766812

Classification

617.150846

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Subject(s)

medicine
Geriatric nursing
Geriatrics
Orthopedics
Osteoporosis
Fractures in old age
Geriatric orthopedics

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Statement of Responsibility

edited by Karen Hertz and Julie Santy-Tomlinson

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