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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
- Publisher:
- Springer Nature
- ISBN:
- 978-3-03-023482-9
- Doody's Star Rating®:
- Score:
- 87
- Doody Core Title Score:
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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 frequentl
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 frequentl
Details
- Platform:
- OvidSP
- Publisher:
- Springer Nature
- Product Type:
- Book
- Author:
- Jessica L. Colburn, Bruce Leff, Jennifer Hayashi, Mattan Schuchm
- ISBN:
- 978-3-03-023482-9
- Specialty:
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- Home Care/Hospice
- Primary Care/Family Medicine/General Practice
- Gerontology
- Geriatrics & Gerontology
- Language:
- English
- Edition:
- 1st Ed.
- Pages:
- 142
- Publication Year:
- 2019
- Doody's Star Rating®:
- Score:
- 87
- Doody Core Title Score:
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