This cutting-edge book on geriatric care management is designed to meet a growing area that spans across the continuum of health care, and is the essential reference for the geriatric care management profession. It gives health care delivery systems, private and public health care practitioners, business people, and schools of nursing, social work, and related health care fields the definitive book on geriatric care management. Handbook of Geriatric Care Management defines the work of the geriatric care manager. It offers an overview of what geriatric care management is, defines duties and procedures, and specifies the organizations that use a geriatric care manager. It provides guidelines for setting up a geriatric care management practice independently or as part of a larger health care delivery system or business, and contains key elements for marketing the practice. Several case studies are included.

...a basic text that combines concepts and clinical nursing care focusing on health promotion and self-care...helps students to meet the challenge of servicing a variety of needs and in a wide range of service settings.

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Product Description: Lippincott CoursePoint is a fully integrated digital curriculum solution for nursing education. CoursePoint provides a completely integrated and adaptive experience, all geared to help students understand, retain, and apply their course knowledge and be prepared for practice...read more

Product Description: Lippincott CoursePoint is a fully integrated digital curriculum solution for nursing education. CoursePoint provides a completely integrated and adaptive experience, all geared to help students understand, retain, and apply their course knowledge and be prepared for practice...read more

Product Description: “I would recommend each Home purchase a copy”- Ian Turner, Chair, Registered Nursing Home Association “Identifies a gap in the sector and offers a practical means of addressing the need.”- Des Kelly, OBE, Executive Director, National Care Forum The Care Home Handbook has one aim: to improve the care and wellbeing of residents in care homes...read more

First published in 1976, "Caring for Eldery People" rapidly established itself as a standard guide for anyone dealing on a day-to-day basis with the elderly. This up-dated and revised edition contains information on financial help and services and on new technology available. The book concerns itself primarily with elderly people who are either living alone or with relatives. In addition to setting out the practical steps to be taken in the treatment of illness (such as Parkinson's disease, stroke, bronchitis, etc.), the author explains why elderly people cannot cope with apparently simple operations, and why they act in a certain way. An extensive list of aids and gadgets, ancillary and community services, is designed to provide supportive advice to relatives and professionals alike, and to encourage the maximum possible self-reliance in the elderly.

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Product Description: Caring for Older People introduces and describes collaborative ways of working with older people, ensuring that students and practitioners are better equipped to provide consistently high-quality care that can make a positive difference to the lives of older people and their families...read more