Emerging Systems in Long Term Care

by Katz, Paul R.; Kane, Robert L.; Mezey, Mathy

• ISBN13: 9780826168337
• ISBN10: 0826168337
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-03-01
• Publisher: Springer Pub Co

Summary

Univ. of Rochester, NY. Highlights the nature of long-term care and explores issues linked to the cost and process of delivering care. Topics includes transitions between acute and long-term care, geriatric day hospitals, subacute care, and more. For clinicians.

Table of Contents

Contributors	vii	(2)
Preface	ix
1 Transitions Between Acute and Long-Term Care	1	(22)
Mary D. Naylor
Paula Roe Prior
2 Subacute Care: Role and Implications for a Modernized Health Care System	23	(22)
Steven A. Levenson
3 From Post-Acute to Chronic Care: Cost and Policy Implications of Medicare Home Health Expansion	45	(22)
Penny Hollander Feldman
4 The Geriatric Day Hospital	67	(21)
Lois K. Evans
Mary Ann Forciea
Johanna Yurkow
Julie Sochalski
5 The PACE Model (Program for All Inclusive Care of the Elderly): A Review	88	(30)
Paul Eleazer
Marsha Fretwell
6 Implications of Managed Care for Older Persons	118	(31)
Robert Newcomer
Charlene Harrington
Robert L. Kane
7 The "Voluntary" Status of Nursing Facility Admissions: Legal, Practice, and Public Policy Implications	149	(30)
Marshall B. Kapp
Index	179