Long-Term Care: Managing Across the Continuum

by Pratt, John

• ISBN13: 9780763764500
• ISBN10: 0763764507
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-07-16
• Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning

Summary

This book is intended as both a college text and a reference source for professionals, policy makers, and regulators. The text provides a sound reference source for anyone wishing to gain a better understanding of the long-term care system. It is concise, but complete, defining the various segments of the system. It also describes how the system developed to its current state, compares it to an ideal system, and projects future trends likely to impact the system. The earlier editions have been used by multiple colleges and universities for their long-term care administration courses. It has also been adopted as a cited reference for the national licensing examination prepared by the National Association of Long-Term Care Administrator Boards (NAB) which is used by all fifty state licensing boards (and the District of Columbia), and for the Certification examination of the American College of Health Care Administrators (ACHCA). It covers the full continuum of long-term care in enough detail to develop a sound understanding of the system, yet does not get bogged down in overly-specific detail as some texts do. Features: 1. Explains how the long-term care system developed and compares it to an ideal system, 2. Describes the primary types of long-term care providers (nursing facilities, assisted living, subacute care, senior housing, community-based care), presenting each in a similar manner, making it easy to compare and contrast them, 3. Covers how the providers interact with each other and with consumers and regulators - focusing specifically on how they compete, cooperate, and integrate; how they are regulated; financing; quality; ethical issues, 4. Discusses how long-term care providers are governed and managed, with chapters also devoted to leadership and culture change, technology, and marketing, 5. Outlines future trends and their projected impact on long-term care, and discusses how managers should act for success in the future. Students will find: 1. Case studies with each of the provider chapters, showing how they serve specific consumers. 2. Discussion questions and vocab terms at the end of each chapter 3. Online supplemental materials with both chapter-based interactive flash cards and an overall Glossary on-line Upgrade Your Course Materials to the New Edition! Click here to access our easy transition guide.

Table of Contents

Part1 Introduction: The Changing Long-Term Care Scene
Chapter1 Long-Term Care Today: Turbulent Times
Chapter2 Toward an Ideal System
Part2 Long-Term Care Service Providers
Chapter3 Nursing Facilities
Chapter4 Subacute and Post-Acute Care
Chapter5 Assisted Living
Chapter6 Senior Housing
Chapter7 Community-Based Services
Part3 Interaction Within the Continuum
Chapter8 Competition, Cooperation, and Integration
Chapter9 External Control of Long-Term Care
Chapter10 Long-Term Care Reimbursement
Chapter11 Long-Term Care Quality
Chapter12 Ethical Issues in Long-Term Care
Part4 Managing in the Long-Term Care System
Chapter13 Governance and Administration
Chapter14 Leadership and Culture Change in Long-Term Care
Chapter15 Technology in Long-Term Care
Chapter16 Marketing and Community Relations
Part5 The Future: Continuing Change
Chapter17 Into the Future: Trends to Watch
Chapter18 Managing for the Future
AppendixA Criteria for Designing or Evaluating a Long-Term Care System