Advances in long-term care.
By: edited by Paul R. Katz, Robert L. Kane, Mathy D. Mezey.
Contributors: Katz, Paul R.; Kane, Robert L., 1940-; Mezey, Mathy Doval.
Series: Advances in long-term care -- v. 1
Publisher: Springer; Springer Pub Co
Published: 1991
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
Subjects: Long-term care of the sick.; Nursing home care.; Home care services.
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.
Table of contents: title: Psychosocial interventions in long-term care: a critical overview / Jurgis Karuza and Paul Katz; title: Falls in the nursing-home setting: causes and preventive approaches / Laurence Z. Rubenstein, Alan S. Robbins, and Karen R. Josephson; title: Segregating the cognitively impaired; are dementia units successful? / Karen Coen Buckwalter; title: New approaches to the diagnosis and treatment of incontinence in the nursing home / Joseph G. Ouslander; title: Redefining a standard of care for frail older people: alternatives to routine physical restraint / Lois K. Evans, Neville E. Strumpf, and Carter Williams; title: Limiting medical inberventions for nursing home residents: the role of administrative law / Marshall B. Kapp; title: Case management roles in emergent approaches to long-term care / John A. Capitman, Margaret A. MacAdam, and Ruby Abrahams; title: The Institute of Medicine study: improving the quality of nursing home care / Catherine Hawes; title: The impact of nurse practicioners on the care of nursing home residents / Judith Garrard, Robert L. Kane, Edward R. Ratner, and Joan L. Buchanan; title: Home care: measuring success / William G. Weissert; title: Issues related to assuring quality in home health care / Catherine Hawes and Robert L. Cane.