"Here's just what you need to effectively care for your patients in the ever-changing world of health care. Elain Polan and Daphne Taylor guide you through the life cycle-from conception to old age-with an emphasis on health promotion, maintenance, and restoration in clinical practice. Easy-to-understand chapters and a full-color presentation offer a complete review of growth and development across the life span"--Publisher's description.

Healthy lifestyles -- Culture -- The family -- Communication -- Theories of growth and development -- Prenatal period to 1 year -- Toddlerhood -- Preschool -- School age -- Puberty and adolescence -- Early adulthood -- Middle adulthood -- Late adulthood -- Death and dying.