Providing Home Care: A Textbook for Home Health Aides, 5e

The textbook retained all of the elements that customers valued:

- Beautifully illustrated chapters organized around learning objectives
- Clearly-marked procedures and color tabs for easy location of material
- An accessible reading level, perfect for the many different types of students in today's classroom
- A table of procedures/skills, chapter review questions, and a glossary
- Comprehensive information about nutrition and meal preparation, as well as special diets
- Green boxes that contain material about how to be environmentally friendly

And was updated to reflect customers' needs:

- Added an additional set of exams for every chapter
- Updated material about Alzheimer's disease and infection prevention
- Introduced person-centered care and reinforced the concept throughout the textbook
- Reorganized the chapters to be even more body-systems-based: anatomy and physiology is now paired with related diseases and conditions
- Expanded web and community resources for students
- Added many new photographs