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Long-Term Care Medicine

A Pocket Guide

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  • © 2011

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Editors:
  1. Pamela Ann Fenstemacher

    1. Abington Memorial Hospital, Jenkintown, USA

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  2. Peter Winn

    1. Dept. Family & Preventive Medicine, University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, USA

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  • Practical, easy-to-read guide
  • Designed to enhance the clinical care and quality of life of residents in a long-term care facility
  • Written by experts in long-term care medicine
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Current Clinical Practice (CCP)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. An Introduction to Long-Term Care

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Home Care

      • Robert Salinas
      Pages 3-14

    3. Assisted Living and Residential Care

      • Daniel Haimowitz
      Pages 15-36

    4. Nursing Facilities

      • Richard G. Stefanacci
      Pages 37-54

    5. The Role of Practitioners and the Medical Director

      • Steven A. Levenson
      Pages 55-71

  3. Common Clinical Conditions in Long-Term Care

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 73-73
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    2. Common Clinical Conditions in Long-Term Care

      • Naushira Pandya
      Pages 75-121

    3. Acute Change in Condition

      • J. Kenneth Brubaker
      Pages 123-143

    4. Health Maintenance and Prevention

      • Ross H. Albert
      Pages 145-157

    5. Integrating Palliative Care into Practice

      • Peter Winn
      Pages 159-186

    6. Weight and Nutrition

      • Todd H. Goldberg, Joel A. Levine
      Pages 187-203

    7. Wound Care

      • Andrew Rosenzweig, Mary Lee
      Pages 205-222

  4. Psychosocial Aspects of Long-Term Care

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 223-223
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    2. Dementia, Delirium, and Depression

      • Deborah Way
      Pages 225-245

    3. Ethical and Legal Issues

      • David A. Smith, Randall D. Huss
      Pages 247-268

    4. Caring for Families

      • David Brechtelsbauer
      Pages 269-281

  5. Special Issues in Long-Term Care

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 283-283
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    2. Documentation and Coding

      • Alva Baker, Leonard Gelman
      Pages 285-297

    3. Medication Management in Long-Term Care

      • Susan T. Marcolina, Keith Swanson
      Pages 299-322
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About this book

Long-Term Care Medicine: A Pocket Guide lessens the uncertainty involved in caring for patients in a long-term care facility. This practical pocket guide is divided into four sections: Introduction, Common Clinical Conditions, Psychosocial Aspects, and Special Issues in Long-Term Care. The chapters address all the varied components of the LTC system as well as how to take care of the patients and residents living within it. The contributors to this easy-to-read guide are passionate about LTC and many have worked within the American Medical Directors Association to create and disseminate a knowledge base for practitioners. Long-Term Care Medicine: A Pocket Guide is an invaluable resource for clinicians, practitioners, and educators who are seeking to optimize the care and living experience of residents in LTC by providing resident-centered care as well as resident choice, well-being, dignity, and an improved quality of life.

Reviews

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“Its purpose it to provide a compact, thorough guide to medical care in a variety of long-term care settings. These are indeed worthy objectives and the authors succeed handsomely in all regards. … The audience is practitioners and trainees of long-term care medicine. … This is an excellent and very well-edited book. … The approach to caring for the families of long-term care patients is particularly strong and filled with useful advice. … This book is the front porch light of that house.” (David O. Staats, Doody’s Review Service, June, 2011)

“Fenstemacher and Winn together with 20 knowledgeable contributors have produced this splendid, concise, inexpensive little book … . address all the varied components of the long-term care system whether for remaining at home or for living within institutions, maintaining their happiness, self-respect, and quality of life, all the way through.” (William H. Wehrmacher, Journal of Geriatric Cardiology, 2011)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Abington Memorial Hospital, Jenkintown, USA

    Pamela Ann Fenstemacher

  • Dept. Family & Preventive Medicine, University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, USA

    Peter Winn

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