Download or read book Retooling for an Aging America written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2008-08-27 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the first of the nation's 78 million baby boomers begin reaching age 65 in 2011, they will face a health care workforce that is too small and woefully unprepared to meet their specific health needs. Retooling for an Aging America calls for bold initiatives starting immediately to train all health care providers in the basics of geriatric care and to prepare family members and other informal caregivers, who currently receive little or no training in how to tend to their aging loved ones. The book also recommends that Medicare, Medicaid, and other health plans pay higher rates to boost recruitment and retention of geriatric specialists and care aides. Educators and health professional groups can use Retooling for an Aging America to institute or increase formal education and training in geriatrics. Consumer groups can use the book to advocate for improving the care for older adults. Health care professional and occupational groups can use it to improve the quality of health care jobs.
Download or read book Long Term Care Services to Older People a Perspective on Future Needs written by Stephane Jacobzone and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Future of Long Term Care written by Pablo Villalobos Dintrans and published by Nova Science Publishers. This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Population aging is challenging countries around the globe to adapt their public policy responses to the new world. Long-term care is a relevant topic today both because of the rapid growth in long-term care needs in every country and the lack of responses from governments. The Future of Long-term Care explores some issues related to the implementation of long-term care responses in different countries. Looking at six different cases, the book highlights the need to foster an urgent debate in the area, as well as emphasizing the need for action in the coming years. The examples analyzed show common problems faced by countries trying to respond to their people's needs, as well as the dissimilar stages, contexts, and paths followed by each one in the endeavour for providing long-term care services to the population. Whether the analysis is carried out in countries with well-established long-term care systems or in places where the debate is just starting, the book proves that this is an area in which many challenges remain. Learning lessons from others is important but providing a space for countries to frame their problems and propose their solutions is crucial. This book contributes to fill this gap and contribute to a debate that is just starting in many places around the world"--
Download or read book Long Term Care in an Aging Society written by Graham D. Rowles, PhD and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2015-08-13 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive graduate textbook focuses on the full spectrum of long-term care settings ranging from family and community based care through supportive housing options to a variety of institutional long-term care alternatives. Integrating theory and practice, the book features the perspectives of diverse fields regarding current long-term care options and new directions for the future. Prominent scholars from history, environmental design, family caregiving, gerontology, social service delivery, clinical care, health service delivery, public policy, finance, law, and ethics explore such themes as: Relationships among independence, dependence, and interdependence Ethical considerations in the provision of long-term care Decision-making in long-term care Fluidity and transitions in long-term care The lived experience of long-term care A micro-macro perspective ranging from the individual to societal institutions The book examines future directions for long-term care, considering such factors as the interface of technology and long-term care, cultural diversity, and relationships between voluntary and paid services. Each chapter includes case examples, study questions, and exercises, additional resources, and website links. The appendices provide a glossary and a list of acronyms. Instructorís resources are also available. Key Features: Focuses on the full array of long-term care options Integrates theory and practice Incorporates the perspectives of diverse fields including history, environmental design, family caregiving, social services and public policy Includes numerous case examples, study questions, exercises, and additional resources Considers new approaches to long-term care incorporating technology and considering cultural diversity and the relationship between voluntary and paid services
Download or read book From Nursing Homes to Home Care written by Marie E Cowart and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Older people who would prefer to stay in their homes and states whose funds are being depleted by the rising costs of Medicaid payments to nursing homes find the current system of long-term care unsatisfactory. From Nursing Homes to Home Care arms educators, policymakers, public health professionals, gerontologists, and advocacy groups with the information they need to participate knowledgeably in the debate about aging and long-term care needs. The book shows readers where things are, where they are going, and where they need to be in changing the system of long-term care. From Nursing Homes to Home Care evaluates future needs for long-term care by analyzing on-going systems and assessing key features of proposed long term programs in the context of population aging. Readers gain a thoughtful analysis of the complex dimensions of making future long-term care policy and program decisions as they read about: patterns of demographic aging, disability, and health needs intersections of formal and informal care including intergenerational equity issues long-term care services needs and accessibility planning for funding, quality assurance, and range of services implications of shifts from the current system to a system of home and community-based services Chapters in From Nursing Homes to Home Care express the collective thinking of leaders in long-term care policy and research. Contributors address implications for changing the current system in relation to the emerging needs of the aging population and use this as a basis for examining alternative decisions. Information in the book helps readers determine how to best blend formal and informal services, how to assure quality of care and quality of life in long-term care policy, how to finance devised programs, which health needs to address, and whether to use regulatory or competitive approaches. Professionals, educators and students, and policymakers at all levels learn about factors to consider in policy planning and decision making, including features of aging baby boomers; trends in the growth of the aged population; newly emerging trends in morbidity, disability, and mortality and their effect on the demand for long-term care in the short and long term; access issues from the perspective of the historical evolution of publicly funded long-term care services, the distribution of formal and informal systems of care; utilization patterns of the minority and poor; how to pay for care, how to design an appropriate mix of services, how to maintain quality with efficiency, and how to mesh services with social and family values. From Nursing Homes to Home Care is an invaluable resource in evaluating and advocating policy changes and decisions for an improved long-term care system.
Download or read book The Future of Long Term Care written by Robert H. Binstock and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Binstock Ethical Issues in Long-Term Care Nancy Neveloff Dubler American Culture and Long-Term Care Otto von Mering Forecasting the Future of Long-Term Care Dennis L. Kodner
Download or read book Long term Care written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Long term care for older people A global perspective written by Bo Hu and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2023-05-04 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Families Caring for an Aging America written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2016-11-08 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Family caregiving affects millions of Americans every day, in all walks of life. At least 17.7 million individuals in the United States are caregivers of an older adult with a health or functional limitation. The nation's family caregivers provide the lion's share of long-term care for our older adult population. They are also central to older adults' access to and receipt of health care and community-based social services. Yet the need to recognize and support caregivers is among the least appreciated challenges facing the aging U.S. population. Families Caring for an Aging America examines the prevalence and nature of family caregiving of older adults and the available evidence on the effectiveness of programs, supports, and other interventions designed to support family caregivers. This report also assesses and recommends policies to address the needs of family caregivers and to minimize the barriers that they encounter in trying to meet the needs of older adults.
Download or read book Long Term Care written by DIANE Publishing Company and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1996-07 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addresses what is meant by long-term careÓ, the conditions that give rise to long-term care need, & how such need is measured; which groups need long-term care; what long-term costs are for the federal & state governments as well as for families; what strategies some states & other countries are pursuing to contain public long-term care costs; & what experts predict about the future demand for long-term care. Charts & tables.
Download or read book Long term Care Insurance Premium Estimates for Prototype Policies written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Long Term Care in the 21st Century written by Iris Chi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-08-27 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who pays for long-term care? Discover the unique approaches of seven countries around the Pacific Rim! Long-Term Care in the Twenty-First Century discusses policies and programs for long-term care in seven countries around the Asia-Pacific Rim: the United States, Canada, Japan, Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Each country is covered in two chapters, one to examine the philosophy and values that underlie its approaches to long-term care, the second to discuss its systems of service delivery. These thoughtful analyses, backed up with facts and figures, explain program successes and failures in the context of demographic and social trends and with reference to the differing political systems across the region. Its breadth of perspective and insightful examination of cultural differences make Long-Term Care in the Twenty-First Century an important contribution to the international comparative study of aging. The programs in the United States, Australia, and Canada offer a fascinating contrast with the longer-established and very different programs in the Asian countries, including Japan, the world’s oldest country. Long-Term Care in the Twenty-First Century provides practical information on essential gerontological issues for each country, including: financing arrangements development of client classification systems case management in both residential and community-based systems key source documents, references, and Web sites political and cultural influences home-based and family caregiving This valuable book provides a critical record of developments in the current transition period. This multicultural perspective contributes a chance for all countries to learn from the experience of others in dealing with a problem that is increasingly important as the world population ages. Long-Term Care in the Twenty-First Century is an essential resource for scholars, service providers, policymakers, and anyone concerned with care of the aged, not only in Pacific Rim countries but around the world.
Download or read book Handbook of Long Term Care Administration and Policy written by Cynthia Massie Mara and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2008-03-27 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attitudes toward long-term care contain a strong residue of negativity in today‘s society and current problems with the system augment such perceptions. Unless dealt with now, this will only get worse, as the 85-and-older crowd is the fastest growing part of the population, and the first wave of Baby Boomers is approaching 60. Exploring and delinea
Download or read book Planning for Future Long term Care Needs written by Emily Jane Robbins and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research examines the life course catalysts and constraints associated with planning for future long-term care needs. Specifically, this study results in a comprehensive profile of individuals who plan for long-term care in late life and identifies the life course events and circumstances associated with purchase of LTC insurance and relocation to a senior community. This research addresses the following questions: How do individuals who plan for long-term care via the purchase of LTC insurance or relocation to a senior community differ demographically from those individuals who do not plan in late life for long-term care in these ways? And How do a person's life course experiences (linked lives, timing of life events and agency within structure), alter their approach to planning for their long-term care needs in later life? Using event history analysis and five waves (1998-2006) of the Health and Retirement Study, this study operationalizes and explicitly measures the life course principles of linked lives, timing of life events and agency within structure as they relate to planning for long-term care. Four categories of variables are measured (sociodemographic characteristics, experience with the long-term care system, major life events, and perceptions of the future). Overall, results suggest that life course measures associated with planning for long-term care needs are primarily demographic characteristics, such as age, education, income and health status. For LTC insurance purchasers, having a will or a trust and experiencing the death of a loved one are salient non-demographic predictors. Being unsure of one's risk of needing long-term care as well as believing that family members or friends would not provide care if needed are associated with relocation to a senior community. These results suggest that there are other, perhaps psychological, factors influencing planning for future care needs. Understanding individual transitions associated with planning for future long-term care is beneficial for long-term care consumers, public policy makers and gerontologists interested in gaining insights into the ways in which older adults prepare for long-term care.
Download or read book Long term Care in an Aging Society written by Gerald A. Larue and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thoughtful collection based on a highly successful conference held in Calgary, Alberta, combines the views of professional gerontologists, educators, health-care specialists, and policy makers to confront the issues affecting health care for older adults in both Canada and the United States. The contributors seek not only to inform but to inspire innovative reponses from the private as well as the public sector. Experts in government, aging, medicine, public administration, social service, counseling, and consulting focus their attention on vital areas of concern to elders who are in need of assistance, to the providers of these services, and to a public who seeks assurance that its resources are cost-effectively allocated to meet present and future demand. Included are essays on the current status of health-care policy in the United States and Canada, daily money management, caring for the noncompliant elder, long-term care as an emerging women's issue, lobbying government agencies and political leaders, the role of gerontology in resolving the crisis of long-term care, and "geroethics."
Download or read book Long Term Care for Older Adults Future Research Needs written by Minnesota Evidence-based Minnesota Evidence-based Practice Center and published by . This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This future research needs (FRN) report is a followup to the 2012 comparative effectivenessreview (CER) "Long-Term Care for Older Adults: A Review of Home and Community-BasedServices Versus Institutional Care ." The CER was conducted by the Minnesota Evidence-basedPractice Center (EPC) to compare long-term care (LTC) for older adults delivered through homeand community-based services (HCBS) with care provided in nursing homes (NHs) byevaluating (1) the characteristics of older adults served through HCBS and in NHs, (2) theimpact of HCBS and NH care on outcome trajectories of older adults, and (3) the per-personcosts of HCBS and NH care as well as costs for other services such as acute care and familyburden. FRN projects identify gaps in the current research that limit the conclusions in CERs and inform researchersand research funders about these gaps. They aim to encourage research likely to fill the gaps andmake the body of evidence more useful to decisionmakers.Long-Term Care for Older Adults refers to a broad range of services designed to provide assistance over prolongedperiods to compensate for loss of function due to chronic illness or physical or mental disability.HCBS refers to services provided in an array of noninstitutional settings. These includerecipients' homes; community -based group-living arrangements such as congregate housing,adult foster care, and residential care and assisted living (AL) facilities; and community settings suchas adult day care and adult day health. Services provided via HCBS include care coordination orcase management, personal care assistant service, personal attendant service, homemaker andpersonal care agency services, home hospice, home delivered meals, home reconfiguration orrenovation, medication management, skilled nursing, escort services, telephone reassuranceservices, emergency help lines, equipment rental and exchange, and transportation. Care throughHCBS also includes educational and supportive group services for consumers or their families.Some aspects of HCBS are construed as respite care meant to relieve family caregivers. For thereview, AL was examined as a separate subset of HCBS because it encompasses aspects of bothcommunity-based and institutional care.NHs are state-licensed institutional facilities offering 24-hour room and board, supervision,and nursing care. NH services may include personal care, support for activities of daily living,Patient characteristics that could modify outcomes included age, race/ethnicity, sex,socioeconomic status, functional status, clinical status, cognition, rural/urban, morbidities,mental illness, payer, prior service use, and disability history. Studies focusing on postacute care,such as Medicare home health services, were not included. Postacute care is care provided toindividuals discharged from a hospital; it aids in their recuperation and rehabilitation andtypically lasts less than 30 days.Resident outcomes and costs were examined separately. Data from cross-sectional studieswere used to compare the characteristics of HCBS recipients and NH residents, and data fromlongitudinal studies were used to assess change in outcomes over time between HCBS recipientsand NH residents. Cross-sectional studies compare outcomes across settings at a specific point intime; whereas longitudinal studies compare changes in outcomes over a defined time period from6 months to 5 years.Outcomes of interest included physical function, mental health outcomes (e.g., depressionand anxiety), quality of life, social function, satisfaction, outcomes related to family caregivers,death, place of death, use of acute care services (e.g., hospitals, emergency departments), andharms such as accidents, injuries, pain, abuse, and neglect.
Download or read book Long Term Care for the Elderly written by Betty H. Landsberger and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-05-10 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1980s the need for long-term care for elderly people in Western societies was quite obvious from the increasing numbers of old and very old people in the population. Countries had responded in a number of different ways to cope with this need. Originally published in 1985, the central theme of this book is to explore these different ways and to probe beneath the surface level of institutions and specific programs. Beneath this level are a number of layers of care, consisting of attitudes, beliefs and values on a social as well as personal level. Thus, chapters two to six explore the surface level of services, goods, treatments, institutions, etc. provided in different countries for long-term care. Chapter seven looks at another layer, the role of government, chapter eight at ethical issues of human rights and chapter nine at the base layer, the views of elderly people themselves. The book draws mainly on information from the UK, USA, Germany and Scandinavia and will be of interest to all concerned with the health and social welfare of the elderly.
