Product Description: Family Caregiving in the New Normal discusses how the drastic economic changes that have occurred over the past few years have precipitated a new conversation on how family care for older adults will evolve in the future. This text summarizes the challenges and potential solutions scientists, policy makers, and clinical providers must address as they grapple with these changes, with a primary focus given to the elements that may impact how family caregiving is organized and addressed in subsequent decades, including sociodemographic trends like divorce, increased participation of women in the workforce, geographic mobility, fewer children in post-baby boom families, chronic illness trends, economic stressors, and the current policy environment...read more

Outlines several approaches to writing, editing, and rewriting, discusses the relationship between the writer and his or her audience, and attempts to define the nature of voice in writing

Product Description: Both practical and applied, Understanding Health Care Outcomes Research, Second Edition makes sense of the new science of studying health care outcomes - a vital process in health care quality assurance. The second edition of this title includes updated chapters, as well as new chapters on confounders, research design, and working within clinical settings...read more

Product Description: This book describes the multidimensional assessment of older persons, offering unique insights into the state of this art. It combines comprehensive reviews of the most widely used instruments for measuring a variety of domains (such as physiological status, cognition, affect, social function, quality of life, physical environment, and caregiver burden) with an exploration of the viriety of uses to which these assessments have been put...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A classic in the field! This concise, practical guide is packed with critical information on geriatric assessment, diagnosis, and treatment. Emphasizes the clinical evaluation of the geriatric patient and features expanded content on end-of-life decisions, pre-operative evaluation, cancer management issues, and preventive aspects of geriatric care...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Long-term care in the United States has taken the nursing home as its benchmark, but the monetary, social, and psychological costs of nursing home care are all too high. This book challenges the current dominance of nursing homes as the principal institution of long-term care...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Current issues related to ethics and quality of life in Long-Term Care are discussed in this volume.

Product Description: This book examines the worldwide growth of elderly populations and its consequences for future care, and the associated costs for this sector of the population. Living a longer life does not necessarily imply an improvement in the quality of life...read more

Product Description: Carefully analyzing the benefit structure of nursing home care and home care provided by Ontario, British Columbia, and Manitoba,A Will and A Way shows how they successfully offer cost-effective, quality long-term care for the aged...read more

Product Description: University of Minnesota. DNLM: 1. Long Term Care.

Product Description: Book by Kane, Rosalie A., Kane, Robert L.