Home-Based Medical Care for Older Adults -

Home-Based Medical Care for Older Adults

A Clinical Case Book
Buch | Softcover
XVI, 142 Seiten
2019 | 1st ed. 2020
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-23482-9 (ISBN)
106,99 inkl. MwSt

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 frequently proves to be challenging for many professionals because it requires an approach or leverages aspects of care delivery that most are not trained in. Additionally, each scenario reflects an approach to care that is enhanced by interdisciplinary input. Finally, each case lends itself to a practical problem-solving approach that could be accomplished by most home-based medical care providers, even in the absence of an interdisciplinary team.

Written by interdisciplinary experts in geriatric home-based care, this book serves as both an educational tool for learners in all related disciplines as well as a quick reference for experienced clinicians looking to augment their existing house call "toolbox." 

Jessica Colburn, MD Assistant Professor of Medicine Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology 5200 Eastern Avenue, Suite 2200 Baltimore, MD 21224

1. Involuntary Weight Loss.- 2. Assessing Decision-Making Capacity.- 3. Acute Illness at Home.- 4. Dementia Behavior Management.- 5. Bacteriuria in a Patient with Incident Delirium.- 6. Caregiver Burden.- 7. Elder Abuse and Neglect.- 8. Management of Frequent Falls.- 9. Home Assessments: Improving Patients' Capacity for Self-Management.- 10. Transitioning to Long-Term Care.- 11. Pressure Injuries.- 12. Opioid Management.- 13. Social Isolation.- 14. Serious Mental Illness.- 15. Functional Rehabilitation and Realistic Goals.-  16. Polypharmacy.- 17. Telephone Medicine.- 18. Morbid Obesity.- 19. Urinary Catheter Management at Home.- 20. End of Life Care.

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo XVI, 142 p. 1 illus. in color.
Verlagsort Cham
Sprache englisch
Maße 127 x 203 mm
Gewicht 220 g
Themenwelt Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Geriatrie
Schlagworte Elder Abuse • Elder neglect • Geriatric home safety assessment • Geriatric transition of care • Medical house calls
ISBN-10 3-030-23482-7 / 3030234827
ISBN-13 978-3-030-23482-9 / 9783030234829
Zustand Neuware
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