Emerging Systems in Long Term Care (ADVANCES IN LONG-TERM CARE) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0826168337 ISBN 13: 9780826168337

Publisher: Springer Pub Co, 1999

Synopsis

The fourth volume in the prestigious advances in long-term care series continues to address the challenges of long-term care with innovation and practical insight. Highlighting the dynamic nature of long-term c are, the authors share their practical insight and explore issues link ed to the cost and process of delivering care to an increasing number of clients. Topics include transitions between acute and long-term car e, geriatric day hospitals, subacute care, and more. Authors from a ra nge of gerontologic disciplines use new research as bases to develop c are solutions under the mandates of managed care.

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About the Author

Paul R. Katz, MD, is Professor of Medicine at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. He is also Medical Director of the Monroe Community Hospital.

Robert Kane, MD, currently holds an endowed chair in Long-term Care and Aging, directs the Center on Aging and the Minnesota Geriatric Education Center and co-directs the University's Clinical Outcomes Research Center. He also directs an AHRQ-funded Evidence-based Practice Center. He was the Dean of the University of Minnesota School of Public Health from 1985-1990.

Mathy Mezey, EdD, EN, FAAN, is Professor and Director of the John A. Hartford Foundation Institute for Geriatric Nursing at New York University College of Nursing. Dr. Mezey's distinguished career has focused on raising the standards of nurses caring for older adults and ensuring that people age in comfort and with dignity. Dr. Mezey received her undergraduate and graduate degrees in nursing from Columbia University. In New York City, she worked for The Visiting Nurse Service of New York and taught at Lehman College, CUNY. From 1981 to 1991, Dr. Mezey was a Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where she directed the geriatric nurse practitioner program and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Teaching Nursing Home Program. Since 1996, Dr. Mezey has directed the John A. Hartford Foundation Institute for Geriatric Nursing in the NYU College of Nursing. In this position, she oversees a national initiative to improve geriatric nursing. Dr. Mezey has a long-standing interest in bioethics research and education. Her research examines the decision-making capacity of older adults to execute a health care proxy and the factors influencing the transfer of nursing residents to hospitals at the end of life. Dr. Mezey is the author of 11 books and more than 100 chapters and articles. Among her many awards, Dr. Mezey has twice received the Geriatric Book-of-the- Year Award by the American Journal of Nursing. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, the Gerontological Society of America, and the New York Academy of Medicine.

Review

"Highlighting the dynamic nature of long-term care, the authors share their practical insight and explore issues ... of delivering care to an increasing number of clients."--Doody Enterprises, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Springer Pub Co
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0826168337
• ISBN 13: 9780826168337
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 185
• Editor: Katz Paul R., Kane Robert L., Mezey Mathy