Author: V. Tellis-NayakPublisher: Charles C. Thomas Publisher
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Nursing Home Exemplars of Quality
Author: V. Tellis-NayakPublisher: Charles C. Thomas Publisher
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Exemplars of Quality
Author: V. Tellis-NayakPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nursing home care
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Improving the Quality of Long-Term Care
Author: Institute of MedicinePublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309132746
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Among the issues confronting America is long-term care for frail, older persons and others with chronic conditions and functional limitations that limit their ability to care for themselves. Improving the Quality of Long-Term Care takes a comprehensive look at the quality of care and quality of life in long-term care, including nursing homes, home health agencies, residential care facilities, family members and a variety of others. This book describes the current state of long-term care, identifying problem areas and offering recommendations for federal and state policymakers. Who uses long-term care? How have the characteristics of this population changed over time? What paths do people follow in long term care? The committee provides the latest information on these and other key questions. This book explores strengths and limitations of available data and research literature especially for settings other than nursing homes, on methods to measure, oversee, and improve the quality of long-term care. The committee makes recommendations on setting and enforcing standards of care, strengthening the caregiving workforce, reimbursement issues, and expanding the knowledge base to guide organizational and individual caregivers in improving the quality of care.
Crossing the Quality Chasm
Author: Institute of MedicinePublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309132967
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
Second in a series of publications from the Institute of Medicine's Quality of Health Care in America project Today's health care providers have more research findings and more technology available to them than ever before. Yet recent reports have raised serious doubts about the quality of health care in America. Crossing the Quality Chasm makes an urgent call for fundamental change to close the quality gap. This book recommends a sweeping redesign of the American health care system and provides overarching principles for specific direction for policymakers, health care leaders, clinicians, regulators, purchasers, and others. In this comprehensive volume the committee offers: A set of performance expectations for the 21st century health care system. A set of 10 new rules to guide patient-clinician relationships. A suggested organizing framework to better align the incentives inherent in payment and accountability with improvements in quality. Key steps to promote evidence-based practice and strengthen clinical information systems. Analyzing health care organizations as complex systems, Crossing the Quality Chasm also documents the causes of the quality gap, identifies current practices that impede quality care, and explores how systems approaches can be used to implement change.
The Caregiving Dilemma
Author: Nancy FonerPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520203372
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
"I know of no other book which gives such a richly contextualized picture of women workers in a nursing home setting. . . . A first-rate ethnography."—Louise Lamphere, University of New Mexico
Quality Assisted Living
Author: Leslie A. MorganPublisher: Springer Publishing Company
ISBN: 0826130348
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
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Trends in Nursing Home Ownership and Quality
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on HealthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nursing home care
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Indices of Quality in Long-term Care
Author: Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Volume 20, 2000
Author: Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
ISBN: 0826116612
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
The study of "the end of life" has become a major focus on medicine, the social sciences, ethics, and religion. This volume brings together the latest research on issues around death and dying, life's attributes as it nears death, planning and preparation for death, and care and intervetion-related issues. This evidence-based finding of this volume will help shape how we approach the topic for years to come.
Old, Alone, and Neglected
Author: Jeanie Schmit Kayser-JonesPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520069617
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
Annotation. As the median age of the population increases, the care and housing of the elderly in the U.S. are of increasing concern. Jeanie Kayser-Jones compares a typical private institution in the U.S. with a government-owned home in Scotland. Her analysis compels attention to the systematic abuse of the institutionalized elderly in the U.S.