Long-Term Care for Frail Older People

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XVIII

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2. Social and Family Aspects of Care

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Introduction and Summary

      • Christine E. Swane

      Pages 3-8

   3. Commentary: Will We Have the Wisdom to Learn?

      • Peter J. Whitehouse

      Pages 9-12

   4. From the Perspective of the Older Person

      • Ruth Campbell

      Pages 13-17

   5. Improving the Quality and Expanding the Quantity of Long-Term Care Staff

      • Naoki Ikegami

      Pages 19-21

   6. Social Aspects of Care and How They Relate with the Medical

      • Margareta Ivehammar

      Pages 23-26

   7. Women’s Roles as Caregivers: Family, Worker, Volunteer

      • Yukiko Okuma

      Pages 27-34

   8. Role of the Family in Long-Term Care

      • Takako Sodei

      Pages 35-48

   9. The Relationship Between Informal and Formal Care

      • Christine Elise Swane

      Pages 49-58

3. Clinical Aspects of Care

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 59-59

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   2. Introduction and Summary

      • Jeffrey B. Halter

      Pages 61-63

   3. Commentary: Preparing Health and Social Clinicians for Holistic Care

      • Rosalie A. Kane

      Pages 65-72

   4. Maintaining Physical Functioning of Frail Older People

      • Naoichi Chino

      Pages 73-75

   5. Physicians’ Roles in the Geriatrics Interdisciplinary Team

      • Jeffrey B. Halter

      Pages 77-81

   6. The Role of Nurses in Long-Term Care for the Elderly

      • Iku Inoue, Yoko Nakayama

      Pages 83-86

   7. Issues Physicians Must Face Under Long-Term Care Insurance

      • Karl-Heinz Mauritz

      Pages 87-90

   8. Interface of Acute and Long-Term Care: Clinical Perspective

      • Ethel L. Mitty

      Pages 91-97

   9. Training of Physicians for Long-Term Care

      • Hajime Orimo

      Pages 99-102

   10. Long-Term Care:The Need for Special Medical Supervision and Collaboration Between Health and Social Services

       • Miel W. Ribbe

       Pages 103-110

The aging of society is a growing concern in all advanced nations, and at the forefront of concern is long-term care for frail older people. Enactment of a new public long-term care insurance program by the Japanese government in 1997 provided an excellent opportunity for a conference focusing on an ideal long-term care system for frail older people. The conference was organized around four major themes: Social aspects, including family dynamics and the role of formal providers; Clinical aspects, including effective treatments for physical and mental disabilities; Macroeconomic and macropolitical settings for public policy; Program design and management issues. With contributions from the fields of medicine, nursing, social work, gerontology, political science, economics, and sociology, this volume provides an overview of key problems and possible solutions in programs for frail older people from a unique international perspective.

• aging
• care
• dementia
• economics
• geriatrics
• gerontology
• health
• medicine
• sociology

• Political Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

  John Creighton Campbell

• Department of Health Policy and Management, Keio University School of Medicine, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan

  Naoki Ikegami

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