Overview
- Describes fundamental principles of geriatric house call medicine and their application to specific diseases and conditions
- There is no other reference that guides clinicians on the principles and practice of house calls medicine
- Written by experts in the field
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Fundamentals
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House Calls in the Health Care Ecosystem
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Front Matter
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Clinical Approach to Caring for Patients at Home
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book is a practical reference for any clinician who has struggled to care for an older adult in a home setting. The volume is written by experts in the field who describe fundamental principles and clinical approaches of geriatric home-based care and their application to specific diseases and conditions, including delirium, incontinence, falls, and chronic pain and disability. The book also details house calls for special populations, from the developmentally disabled to those afflicted with neurologic or psychiatric diseases. The volume explores house calls within the context of the US healthcare system.
Geriatric Home-Based Medical Care: Principles and Practice is a valuable resource for geriatricians, geriatric nurses, primary care physicians, social workers, public health officials, and all medical professions who need tools to provide timely, compassionate, and high-quality care for their older adult patients.
Reviews
“This is a practical implementation guide for developing an efficient and effective system for providing medical care to geriatric individuals in their home. … The topics are … suitable for all clinicians involved in the field as well as educational programs training physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. … Chapters include references and appropriate tables and lists. … The book is a very useful tool to help with the endeavor.” (Sharon G. Thomas, Doody's Book Reviews, March, 2016)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Director, Elder House Call Program
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology
Baltimore, Maryland
USA
Bruce Leff, MD
Professor of Medicine
Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
Baltimore, Maryland
USA
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Geriatric Home-Based Medical Care
Book Subtitle: Principles and Practice
Editors: Jennifer L. Hayashi, Bruce Leff
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23365-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-23364-2Published: 18 December 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-23365-9Published: 09 December 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 296
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 13 illustrations in colour
Topics: Geriatrics/Gerontology, Public Health, General Practice / Family Medicine, Nursing, Primary Care Medicine