Home-Based Medical Care for Older Adults

A Clinical Case Book

Home-Based Medical Care for Older Adults

A Clinical Case Book

106,99 €*

in Vorbereitung

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." 



<p>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.<br></p>
ISBN 978-3-030-23482-9
Artikelnummer 9783030234829
Medientyp Buch
Auflage 1st ed. 2020
Copyrightjahr 2019
Verlag Springer, Berlin
Umfang XVI, 142 Seiten
Abbildungen XVI, 142 p. 1 illus. in color.
Sprache Englisch