Recently added articles from Care Management Journals:
Regulating Payment for Home Care Companionship Services: Legal Authority and Public Policy
Oct 01, 2008; ... On June 11, 2007, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling in the case of Long Island Care at Home Ltd. v. Coke that upheld a federal regulation exempting employees of third-party agencies who provide home-based "companionship services" to disabled persons from the protections of the minimum wage ...
Case Management and Social Role Theory as Partners in Service Delivery
Oct 01, 2008; ... This article proposes a reorganized model of case management for persons with a serious psychiatric illness, including a substance abuse disorder. The model was designed as a response to the changing demands of federal law, public funding sources, and social work licensure requirements in some ...
Effect of Work Environment on Care Managers' Role Ambiguity: An Exploratory Study in Japan
Oct 01, 2008; ... Previous literature pointed out that the role of care managers is ambiguous. In 2000, Japan instituted a new policy for long-term care of the elderly (the National Long-Term Care Insurance Policy), within which the work of care managers was recognized as a new profession providing care ...
June's Troubled Transition: Adjustment to Residential Care for Older Adults With Dementia
Oct 01, 2008; ... In research on dementia care and housing transitions, only rarely are residents themselves present as active informants. This is a costly omission, inasmuch as manifestations of dementia, perceptions of care settings, and residents' experience of such transitions are both complex and highly ...
Off-Base: Limitations on Medicare Part D Coverage of Off-Label Prescriptions
Oct 01, 2008; ... Editor's Note. The following article is reprinted and adapted for the Care Management Journals format with permission from the Medicare Rights Center. The establishment of a Medicare prescription drug benefit was intended to bring improved health care and increased financial security for ...
Old Faces
Oct 01, 2008; ... I have always wanted to take photographs of really old faces and I had reached age 70 when I began. I made a few attempts by calling some assisted-living homes and offering to photograph the individuals. The response always was, "If we let you, as a photographer, do it, we have to let them all ...
Eviction: Owner Occupancy (A Requiem)
Oct 01, 2008; ... I wired every connection, I sanded every floorboard, I rescued the bathtub from a rainy street. This was my place My first wife found the listing in the Soho Weekly News My last wife swept away the last balls of dust I created my Still Films ...
MEMORY BOOKS AND OTHER GRAPHIC CUING SYSTEMS: PRACTICAL COMMUNICATION AND MEMORY AIDS FOR ADULTS WITH DEMENTIA
Oct 01, 2008; ... MEMORY BOOKS AND OTHER GRAPHIC CUING SYSTEMS: PRACTICAL COMMUNICATION AND MEMORY AIDS FOR ADULTS WITH DEMENTIA Michelle S. Bourgeois, PhD Baltimore: Health Professions Press, 2007, 144 pp., $32.95 (softcover). Michelle Bourgeois is a professor of communication disorders at Florida State ...
ERRATUM
Jul 01, 2008; ... ERRATUM: In the article by McWilliam et al. entitled "Flexible Client-Driven In-Home Case Management: An Option to Consider" (Care ...
Using Health-Related Quality of Life Assessments to Evaluate Care Support Within Medicaid
Jul 01, 2008; ... CareOregon, an Oregon-based not-for-profit Medicaid health plan, successfully piloted a "CareSupport" model that identifies high-risk members and clinically stratifies them for intervention. Internal analyses indicate that CareSupport lowers utilization and cost; CareOregon, however, has lacked ...
Case Management and Outreach: Similarities and Differences in Worker Tasks
Jul 01, 2008; ... Case management and outreach are two important services provided to many individuals, particularly people with multiple problems. Unfortunately, no taxonomy or measuring instrument has been developed that captures the many dimensions of the jobs performed by both case managers and outreach ...
Huntington's Disease
Jul 01, 2008; ... Huntington's disease (HD) is a hereditary neurodegenerative disorder involving slow, progressive loss of functional capacities. Motor, psychiatric, and cognitive deterioration interfere with activities of independent living, gait, speech, and, ultimately, swallowing. Each child of an affected ...
Survey of Community-Based Programs Serving U.S. Families With Huntington's Disease: Perceived Barriers and Facilitators in the Residential Placement Process
Jul 01, 2008; ... This article describes the contours of the residential care placement experience for social service staff, health care providers, and their client families of patients with Huntington's disease. The purpose of this study was to determine the factors, conditions, and barriers encountered by ...
Huntington's Disease: A Caring Approach to the End of Life
Jul 01, 2008; ... This article describes the challenges of end-of-life care encountered in a specialized long-term care program for people with Huntington's disease (HD). The Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care Huntington's Disease Workgroup defines the initiation of palliative care as the point at which ...
Too Sick to Work, Too Soon for Medicare: The Human Cost of the 2-Year Medicare Waiting Period for Americans With Disabilities
Jul 01, 2008; ... In the United States, nearly 7 million people under age 65 qualify for Medicare due to severe and permanent disabilities. However, these individuals must wait 2 years after they are deemed eligible for Social Security Disability Insurance to receive this coverage. As a result, there are as many ...
Group Homes for Elders With Dementia in Japan
Jul 01, 2008; ... In this article we explore the development of group homes for elders with dementia in Japan since the inception of the long-term care insurance program in 2000. We suggest that the combination of demographic and policy trends in recent years have created a context in which entrepreneurial ...
LESSONS ON AGING FROM THREE NATIONS, VOLUME II: THE ART OF CARING FOR OLDER ADULTS
Jul 01, 2008; ... LESSONS ON AGING FROM THREE NATIONS, VOLUME II: THE ART OF CARING FOR OLDER ADULTS Sara Carmel, Carol A. Morse, and Fernando M. Torres-Gil (Editors) Amityville, NY: Baywood, 2007, 254 pp., $49.00 (hardcover). Contemporary population aging is a global phenomenon presenting challenges and ...
NARRATIVE MEDICINE: HONORING THE STORIES OF ILLNESS
Jul 01, 2008; ... NARRATIVE MEDICINE: HONORING THE STORIES OF ILLNESS Rita Charon, MD, PhD New York: Oxford University Press, 2006, 288 pp., $39.95 (hardcover). The good physician knows his patients through and through, and his knowledge is dearly bought. Time, sympathy and understanding must be lavishly ...
FAMILY CAREGIVERS ON THE JOB: MOVING BEYOND ADLs AND IADLs
Jul 01, 2008; ... FAMILY CAREGIVERS ON THE JOB: MOVING BEYOND ADLs AND IADLs Carole Levine (Editor) New York: United Hospital Fund of New York, 2004, 300 pp., $20.00 (softcover). The seven specialists who contribute to this volume examine the total picture of caregiving demands. Their essays offer ...