New Developments in Home Care Services for the Elderly: Innovations in Policy, Program, and Practice

by Kaye; Lenard W

• ISBN13: 9781560247944
• ISBN10: 1560247940
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1996-01-09
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This anthology responds to the recurring call for quality in home care service provision. It presents to agency administrators, managers, supervisors, and front line service providers a set of the most up-to-date policy, program, and practice developments in the field. Each contributor to New Developments in Home Care Services for the Elderly explores issues of client/staff diversity and the challenges associated with working with clients grappling with disabling conditions. Contributors in New Developments in Home Care Services for the Elderly explore issues of client/staff diversity and the challenges associated with working with clients grappling with various disabling conditions. Topics addressed include: alternative organizational models in home care the importation of high technology services into the home legal and ethical issues in home health care counseling homebound clients and their families clinical assessment tools and packages case management and the home care client home care entitlements and benefits evaluating and monitoring the effectiveness of in-home care marketing home health care services home care service experiences in other countries New Developments in Home Care Services for the elderly covers a continuum of care ranging from housekeeping services to self-care education, teaching, and training services to nursing and medically related services. Consequently, the information contained within this volume is of immediate relevance to a multidisciplinary audience having both direct (field) and indirect (office) service responsibilities in the home care organization. Social workers, nurses, business administrators, and public health professionals will find this an invaluable guide for providing effective home care services.

Table of Contents

About the Contributors	xiii
Preface	xix
Rose Dobrof
Introduction	1	(8)
Lenard W. Kaye
PART I: POLICY INNOVATION
Trends in Home Care Entitlements and Benefits	9	(22)
Ellen P. Rosenzweig
Legal and Ethical Issues in Home-Based Care	31	(18)
Marshall B. Kapp
PART II: PROGRAM INNOVATION
Alternative Organizational Models in Home Care	49	(18)
Joanne Handy
The Importation of High Technology Services into the Home	67	(28)
Lenard W. Kaye
Joan K. Davitt
Home Health Care Information Systems: Difficult Choices in Uncertain Times	95	(22)
Dick Schoech
Janet Neff
Karen Roberts
Evaluation and Quality Assurance for In-Home Services	117	(16)
Susan L. Hughes
Marketing Techniques for Home Care Programs	133	(26)
Lenard W. Kaye
PART III: PRACTICE INNOVATION
Counseling Homebound Clients and Their Families	159	(32)
Toba Schwaber Kerson
Renee W. Michelsen
Challenges for the Home Care Supervisor	191	(22)
Ann Burack-Weiss
Lucy Rosengarten
Clinical Assessment in Home Care	213	(20)
Miriam K. Aronson
Joanne Kennedy Shiffman
Case Management in Home and Community Care	233	(18)
Joan Quinn
PART IV: INNOVATION FROM ABROAD
Trends and Developments in Home Care Services: An International Perspective	251	(20)
Abraham Monk
Carole Cox
Index	271