Handbook of geriatric care management

• Other Authors: Cress, Cathy (Editor)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Sudbury, MA Jones & Bartlett Learning 2012
• Edition: Third Edition
• Subjects: Health Services for the Aged > organization & administration; Geriatrics; Practice Management > organization & administration
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Handbook of Geriatric Care Management, Third Edition is a comprehensive guide for Geriatric Care Managers (GCMs) to help define duties and procedures while providing guidelines for setting up a geriatric care practice. An essential teaching tool, this new edition is an easy-to-use, practical guide t...

Table of Contents:

• Overview and history of geriatric care management
• Ethics and geriatric care management
• Psychosocial assessment in geriatric care management
• Functional assessment in geriatric care management
• Care planning, geriatric assessment, and geriatric care management
• Ethnic and cultural assessment in geriatric care management
• Assessing and supporting late life relocation in geriatric care management
• Spiritual assessment and support in geriatric care management
• Assessing and supporting the family caregiver
• Assessing and supporting clients' quality of life in geriatric care management
• Assessing and supporting aging in place through technology
• How to begin or add a geriatric care management business
• After the start-up : issues for mature geriatric care management
• How to begin and add fee-for-service geriatric care management in a non profit
• Combining a home care agency and a GCM practice
• Marketing geriatric care management in non-for-profit settings
• Private revenue sources for the fee based geriatric care manager
• Care management credentialing
• Preparing for emergencies in geriatric care management
• Geriatric care management working with normal aging families
• Difficult families : conflict, dependence, and mutuality in geriatric care management
• Mediation : the GCM as the accidental mediator.