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Home-Based Medical Care for Older Adults

Publication Year:
2019
Edition:
1st Ed.
Author:
Jessica L. Colburn, Bruce Leff, Jennifer Hayashi, Mattan Schuchm
ISBN:
978-3-03-023482-9
Doody's Star Rating®:
Score:
87
Doody Core Title Score:
  • 2.53 (Geriatrics)
  • 2.6 (Home Care)
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As the population of older adults in the U.S. continues to grow, medical house calls are increasingly part of a system of comprehensive home-based care for patients who have difficulty accessing office-.based care.
Clinicians who have been trained mostly in office and hospital settings must adapt their usual approaches to accommodate a wide range of environmental, social, and physical circumstances that impact home-limited patients. Ideally, a comprehensive team of clinicians proficient in multiple domains of functional, social, and medical care can work together to address potential gaps in any one clinician’s expertise. Unfortunately, such teams are still rare. This book aims to equip individual clinicians with the interdisciplinary knowledge, skills, and perspective they need to provide the best care possible with limited formal interdisciplinary support.

This book offers 20 patient cases drawn from the collective experience of experts in home-based medical care from highly respected academic and clinical programs across the United States. Each case demonstrates a scenario that is frequently encountered and/or very important in home-based medical care practice. Each scenario frequently proves to be challenging for many professionals because it requires an approach or leverages aspects of care delivery that most are not trained in. Additionally, each scenario reflects an approach to care that is enhanced by interdisciplinary input. Finally, each case lends itself to a practical problem-solving approach that could be accomplished by most home-based medical care providers, even in the absence of an interdisciplinary team.

Written by interdisciplinary experts in geriatric home-based care, this book serves as both an educational tool for learners in all related disciplines as well as a quick reference for experienced clinicians looking to augment their existing house call “toolbox.”
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Platform:
OvidSP
Product Type:
Book
Author:
Jessica L. Colburn, Bruce Leff, Jennifer Hayashi, Mattan Schuchm
ISBN:
978-3-03-023482-9
Specialty:
  • Geriatrics & Gerontology
  • Gerontology
  • Home Care/Hospice
  • Primary Care/Family Medicine/General Practice
Language:
English
Edition:
1st Ed.
Pages:
142
Publication Year:
2019
Doody's Star Rating®:
Score:
87
Doody Core Title Score:
  • 2.53 (Geriatrics)
  • 2.6 (Home Care)

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