Download or read book Training Physicians to Care for Older Americans written by David B. Reuben and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Training Physicians to Care for Older Americans written by David B. Reuben and published by National Academies. This book was released on 1994 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This background paper, prepared by two members of the Institute of Medicine's Committee on Strengthening the Geriatric Content of Medical Education, addresses the progress made in physicians' geriatric and gerontological education. The report appears in six chapters. After a brief introduction on health care reform and medical education, geriatric medicine and geriatricians are discussed in chapter 2. Some of the topics examined here include the historical development of geriatrics, physician certification, and the utilization and financing of health services. Chapter 3 analyzes past efforts to develop geriatrics and explores increases in geriatric faculty, geriatric fellowship programs and residencies, continuing medical education, and obstacles to the development of academic geriatrics. Chapter 4 assesses the demand for geriatricians and faculty, while in chapter 5, some strategies to strengthen physicians' geriatrics training are presented. Some of these strategies include revised financial policies, the revamping of service delivery, the strengthening of faculty development and academic programs, and recruiting and marketing ideas. The last chapter comments briefly on the 1993 Institute of Medicine Report. The recommendations made in the above report were grouped into five categories: (1) improved education in geriatrics; (2) leadership centers; (3) enhanced attractiveness of geriatrics; (4) revision in payment policies; and (5) research support. (RJM)
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 Health Care for Older Americans written by United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 1604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Taking Care of Mom and Dad written by United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 72 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 Older Americans Health Education and Training Act written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Human Resources and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Living Longer Growing Stronger the Vital Role of Geriatric Medicine written by United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Older Americans Health Education and Training Act written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Human Resources and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Geriatric Training Curriculum for Public Health Professionals written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 1234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 2008-09-27 with total page 317 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 Living Longer Growing Stronger written by Charles E. Grassley and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2000-07 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Witnesses: Jeanette Takamura, Assist. Sec. for Aging, U.S. Dept. of HHS; Violet Cosgrove, Older Consumer, Glen Burnie, MD; John Murphy, M.D., Prof. Dept. of Family Medicine, Brown Univ.; Susan Klein, RN, Bureau of Health Professions, Health Resources and Services Admin.; Steven L. Phillips, M.D., Senior Dimensions, Reno, NV; Neeraj Kanwal, M.D., exec. medical dir., Government Programs, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Mason, OH; Steve Anderson, exec. dir., Donald W. Reynolds Foundation, Fort Smith, AR; and William Minnix, Jr., CEO, Wesley Woods Center on Aging, Emory Univ., Atlanta, GA, for the Amer. Assoc. of Medical Colleges.
Download or read book Let Me Heal written by Kenneth M. Ludmerer and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a highly engaging, richly contextualized account of the residency system in all its dimensions and analyzes the mutual relationship between residency education and patient care in America.
Download or read book Curing Medicare written by Andy Lazris and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-19 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andy Lazris, MD, is a practicing primary care physician who experiences the effects of Medicare policy on a daily basis. As a result, he believes that the way we care for our elderly has taken a wrong turn and that Medicare is complicit in creating the very problems it seeks to solve. Aging is not a disease to be cured; it is a life stage to be lived. Lazris argues that aggressive treatments cannot change that fact but only get in the way and decrease quality of life. Unfortunately, Medicare's payment structure and rules deprive the elderly of the chance to pursue less aggressive care, which often yields the most humane and effective results. Medicare encourages and will pay more readily for hospitalization than for palliative and home care. It encourages and pays for high-tech assaults on disease rather than for the primary care that can make a real difference in the lives of the elderly. Lazris offers straightforward solutions to ensure Medicare’s solvency through sensible cost-effective plans that do not restrict patient choice or negate the doctor-patient relationship. Using both data and personal stories, he shows how Medicare needs to change in structure and purpose as the population ages, the physician pool becomes more specialized, and new medical technology becomes available. Curing Medicare demonstrates which medical interventions (medicines, tests, procedures) work and which can be harmful in many common conditions in the elderly; the harms and benefits of hospitalization; the current culture of long-term care; and how Medicare often promotes care that is ineffective, expensive, and contrary to what many elderly patients and their families really want.
Download or read book Long term Care and the Older Americans Act written by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Aging. Subcommittee on Health and Long-Term Care and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Barriers to Health Care for Older Americans written by United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging. Subcommittee on Health of the Elderly and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 962 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
