Overview
- Provides best practices for care of seniors
- Resource for developing geriatric models
- Written by expert authors
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Table of contents (31 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Hospital Based Models of Care
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Front Matter
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Models to Address the Needs of Seniors in Transition from Hospital-to-Home
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Front Matter
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Outpatient-Based Models of Care
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About this book
This book describes geriatrics practice models that are used to guide the care of older adults, allowing seniors to remain at home, prevent functional disability and preserve quality of life. The models include specific interventions which are performed by health care workers to address the needs of older persons and their caregivers. These models respect patient values, consider patient safety and appreciate psychosocial needs as well. Divided into six parts that discuss hospital-based models of care, transitions from hospital to home, outpatient-based models of care and emergency department models of care, this text addresses the needs of vulnerable patients and the community.
Geriatric Models of Care is an excellent resource for health care leaders who must translate these programs to address the needs of the patients in their communities.
Reviews
“The purpose is to explore best practices in geriatric care. … With its wide range of healthcare models, this book will have broad appeal to many levels of professionals. This could be read by CEOs as well as those people working at the bedside. … it presents an excellent overview of possibilities for improving care of the elderly.” (Carol Ann Siem, Doody's Book Reviews, August, 2015)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Michael L. Malone, MD is the Medical Director of Aurora Health Care's Senior Services program and Aurora at Home. He is a Clinical Adjunct Professor of Medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. He serves as the Section Head of Geriatrics at Aurora Sinai Medical Center in Milwaukee, WI as well as Aurora's Geriatrics Fellowship Director. Dr. Malone is the Section Editor for Models of Geriatric Care, Quality Improvement, and Program Dissemination for the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. He serves as the Chairman of the Public Policy committee at the American Geriatrics Society.
Elizabeth A. Capezuti, PhD, RN, FAAN is the William Randolph Hearst Chair in Gerontology and Assistant Dean for Research at the Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing of Hunter College of the City University of New York (CUNY). Dr. Capezuti is known for her work in improving the care of older adults by interventions and models that positively influence healthcare provider’s knowledge and work environment. Dr. Capezuti has disseminated the findings of 40 funded projects in five co-edited books and more than a hundred peer reviewed articles and book chapters.
Robert M. Palmer, M.D., M.P.H. is the John Franklin Chair of Geriatrics and the Director of the Glennan Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology at Eastern Virginia Medical School, where he is also Professor of Internal Medicine and Division Chief of Geriatric Medicine. Dr. Palmer has attained inter
national attention for his research focused on improving the functional outcomes of hospitalization, patient safety and quality of care. Dr. Palmer was Principal Investigator of a grant from the John A. Hartford Foundation that established the effectiveness of a medical unit for acute care of elders (ACE Unit). He is the author of numerous publications including research articles, geriatric textbooks, book chapters, and scientific reviews. Dr. Palmer is Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (AGS). He is the Chair of the AGS Special Interest Group, Acute Hospital Care. In May, 2015 he will receive the Edward Henderson Award from the AGS.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Geriatrics Models of Care
Book Subtitle: Bringing 'Best Practice' to an Aging America
Editors: Michael L. Malone, Elizabeth A. Capezuti, Robert M. Palmer
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16068-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-16067-2Published: 09 June 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-37928-9Published: 17 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-16068-9Published: 22 May 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 319
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations, 40 illustrations in colour
Topics: Geriatrics/Gerontology, Health Administration, Primary Care Medicine, General Practice / Family Medicine