Quality care in geriatric settings
Subtitle: focus on ethical issues
By: Paul R. Katz, Robert L. Kane, Mathy D. Mezey.
Contributors: Katz, Paul R.; Kane, Robert L., 1940-; Mezey, Mathy Doval.
Series: Springer series, advances in long-term care
Publisher: Springer Pub. Co.
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
Subjects: Long-Term Care.; Quality of Health Care.; Ethics, Professional.; Nursing Homes.; Aged -- Long-term care -- Quality control.; Aged -- Long-term care -- Moral and ethical aspects.; Long-term care of the sick -- Quality control.; Nursing home care -- Quality control.; Home care services -- Quality control.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Rehabilitation in the nursing home / Eugenis L. Siegler and Bruce Kinosian; value: Medical practice in nursing facilities: assessing the impact of OBRA / Rebecca D. Elon; value: Long-term care: a new model / Amasa B. Ford; value: Respite revisited: re-assessing the impact / Rhonda J.V. Montgomery and Karl Kosloski; value: Advance directives: moving from theory to practice / Tracy E. Miller; value: How effective is geriatrics? a review of the evidence / Chad Boult, Lisa Boult, and Robert L. Kane; value: End-of-life treatment decisions in the nursing home: ethics and the nursing assistant / Eileen R. Chchin, Ellen Schulman, Margaret Harrington, Joyce Norwood, and Ellen Olson; value: Ethical themes in long-term care / Rosalie A. Kane; value: Quality of life in nursing homes: an emerging focus of research and practice / Darryl Wieland, Lisa V. Rubenstein, and Susan H. Hirsch; value: Pain management in long-term care / Bruce A. Ferrell; value: Integrated communications systems in long-term care / William Kavesh.