Long-Term Care for Frail Older People

Session 1 Social and Family Aspects of Care.- and Summary.- Commentary: Will We Have the Wisdom to Learn?.- From the Perspective of the Older Person.- Improving the Quality and Expanding the Quantity of Long-Term Care Staff.- Social Aspects of Care and How They Relate with the Medical.- Women’s Roles as Caregivers: Family, Worker, Volunteer.- Role of the Family in Long-Term Care.- The Relationship Between Informal and Formal Care.- Session 2 Clinical Aspects of Care.- and Summary.- Commentary: Preparing Health and Social Clinicians for Holistic Care.- Maintaining Physical Functioning of Frail Older People.- Physicians’ Roles in the Geriatrics Interdisciplinary Team.- The Role of Nurses in Long-Term Care for the Elderly.- Issues Physicians Must Face Under Long-Term Care Insurance.- Interface of Acute and Long-Term Care: Clinical Perspective.- Training of Physicians for Long-Term Care.- Long-Term Care: The Need for Special Medical Supervision and Collaboration Between Health and Social Services.- Long-Term Care and Dementia.- Session 3 The Macroeconomic and Macropolitical Setting.- and Summary.- Commentary: Macroeconomic and Macropolitical Setting.- Financing the Ideal Long-Term Care System Through Social Insurance.- Learning from Other Countries’ Experiences in Designing the Ideal Long-Term Care System.- Long-Term Care Within National Social Policy.- Financing Long-Term Care: What We Can Learn from the German Experience.- Long-Term Care and the Labor Market.- How the System Can Be Sustained Politically.- Market Elements in Financing and Delivering Long-Term Care.- Session 4 Program Design.- and Summary.- Commentary: Cross-Cutting Themes in the Provision of LTC.- Effective Care Management.- Japan’s Long-Term Care Insurance System: The Likely Impact on ServiceSuppliers and Their Staffs.- Models of Long-Term Care That Work.- The Development of Strategies for the Demented Elderly in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area.- Achieving Quality in Institutional and Home-Based Long-Term Care.- The Role of Housing in Long-Term Care for Old People.- Balancing Institutional and Home and Community-Based Care.- Letter From Tokyo: Public Long-Term Care Insurance in Japan.- Biographical Sketches of Participants.- Addresses of the Participants.