Key aspects of caring for the chronically ill : hospital and home / Sandra G. Funk ... [et al.], editors.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

I. Caring for the chonically ill : an overview. Caring for the chronically ill : from research to practice / Sandra G. Funk ... [et al.] -- Managing chronicity : the heart of nursing care / Angela Barron McBride -- Managing the hospitalized chronically ill / Barbara J. Daly -- Assisting with transitions from hospital to home / Dorothy Brooten -- Managing home care / Patricia A. Cloonan -- Living with chronic illness : living with uncertainty / Merle H. Mishel -- Exercise interventions for the chronically ill : review and prospects / Carol C. Hogue, Sharon M. Cullinan, and Eleanor McConnell -- Evaluating research findings for practice / Linda R. Cronenwett.

II. Caring for chronically ill adults. A special care unit for the chronically critically ill / Barbara J. Daly and Ellen B. Rudy -- Special care units for persons with Alzheimer's disease : a successful intervention? / Kathleen Coen Buckwalter ... [et al.] -- Managing acute exacerbations for chronic illness in the elderly / Denise M. Kresevic ... [et al.] -- Meeting the discharge needs of hospitalized elderly and their caregivers / Mary D. Naylor, Roberta L. Campbell, and Janice B. Foust -- Effect of a self-help course on adaptation in people with arthritis / Ann Mabe Newman -- Promoting a learned self-help response to chronic illness / Carrie Jo Braden -- Uncertainty management for women receiving treatment for breast cancer / Judith McHenry ... [et al.] -- Quantitative progressive exercise rehabilitation : rehabilitation of patients with osteoarthritis / Nadine M. Fisher and David R. Pendergast -- Exercise testing and training in physically disabled subjects with coronary artery disease / Barbara J. Fletcher and Lilian M. Vassallo -- Exercise training for frail rural elderly : a pilot study / Carol C. Hogue and Sharon M. Cullinan -- Family caregivers of severely head-injured adults in the community setting / Joanne V. Hickey -- Role acquisition in family caregivers for older people who have been discharged from the hospital / Barbara J. Stewart ... [et al.] -- Chronic sorrow : an examination of nursing roles / Georgene G. Eakes ... [et al.].

III. Caring for chronically ill children. Nurses' and parents' negotiation of caregiving roles for medically fragile infants : barriers and bridges / Margaret Shandor Miles and Annette C. Frauman -- The behaviors and nursing care of preterm infants with chronic lung disease / Diane Holditch-Davis and Deborah Assad Lee -- Cost burden of low birthweight / Susan Gennaro ... [et al.] -- Parental role alterations experienced by mothers of children with a life-threatening chronic illness / Margaret Shandor Miles ... [et al.] -- Family response to a child's chronic illness : a description of major defining themes / Kathleen A. Knafl ... [et al.] -- Quality of life and family relationships in families coping with their child's chronic illness / Becky J. Christian -- Impact of childhood cancer on families at home / Ida M. Martinson -- The effects of an asthma education program on selected health behaviors of school-aged children with asthma / Laurel R. Talabere. IV. Caring for the chronically ill : implications for the future. Clinical implications of research on caring for chronically ill adults and children : where can we go from here? / Barbara Germino.