Recently added articles from Care Management Journals:
Systematic Review: Predictors of Successful Transition to Community-Based Care for Adults With Chronic Care Needs
Dec 01, 2008; ... Difficult transition from acute hospital back to the community can be challenging. Problems encountered during this process can lead to unplanned readmission and emergency department visits. It is important for care managers to be able to identify patients susceptible to difficult transition and ...
Measuring Case Managers' Advance Care Planning Practice: Translating Focus Group Findings to Survey Development
Dec 01, 2008; ... Sequential mixed methods is a useful research design to inform second-stage methodology when investigating an area of practice in which relatively little is known. This article describes how focus group findings were used to measure advance care planning practice among community-based case ...
Geriatric Education Today: Studies From a University Hospital
Dec 01, 2008; ... Are we prepared to meet the current challenge of caring for an aging population? The current national conversation suggests that we are not, that we are not training geriatricians in sufficient numbers to meet the needs of the aging postwar generation, and that the quality of care we now provide ...
Geriatric Psychiatry and Fellowship Programs in the United States
Dec 01, 2008; ... Psychiatric disorders are extremely common in the elderly and are a major cause of morbidity and mortality. For example, 8% to 15% of the geriatric population has clinically significant symptoms of depression (NIH Consensus Conference, 1992). Elderly Americans commit suicide at a rate twice the ...
Teaching at an Assisted Living Facility
Dec 01, 2008; ... The increase in assisted living facilities (ALFs) of various types has provided a new option for the delivery of clinical services to the elderly. For all these facilities, whether large or small, profit or nonprofit, primarily residential (the "social model") or with significant nursing care ...
Finding Common Ground: An Integrative Model of Geriatric Medicine and Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Education
Dec 01, 2008; ... Currently, the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. population is the group aged 85 and older; referred to as the oldest old, this group is expected to reach 10 million by 2030. They are more likely to live in metropolitan areas with many aging in place ( A Profile of Older Americans, 2006). Our ...
RELIGION, MORAL PHILOSOPHY, AND MADNESS IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND
Dec 01, 2008; ... RELIGION, MORAL PHILOSOPHY, AND MADNESS IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND Jeremy Schmidt Hampshire, UK: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2007, 217 pp., $99.95 (hardcover). Jeremy Schmidt, 30-something and a teaching fellow at Halifax's University of King's College, has prepared a richly detailed volume ...
BIPOLAR DISORDER IN LATER LIFE
Dec 01, 2008; ... BIPOLAR DISORDER IN LATER LIFE Martha Sajatovic, MD, and Frederic C. Blow, PhD (Eds.) Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007, 280 pp., $50.00 (hardcover). Bipolar disorder is a serious mental illness that is associated with devastating consequences not only for the patient ...
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 ...