Research Catalog

Title

Integrating care for older people : new care for old, a systems approach / Christopher Foote and Christine Stanners.

Author

Foote, Christopher, 1939-

Publication

London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2002.

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Details

Additional Authors

Stanners, Christine, 1935-

Description

384 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

The authors of this text share their experience on implementing a multi-agency approach to the support of older people, and provide a model of care that co-ordinates medical, social and community services.

Subject

• Aged
• Delivery of Health Care, Integrated
• Health Services for the Aged
• Integrated delivery of health care > Great Britain
• Older people > Care > Great Britain
• Older people > Services for > Great Britain
• United Kingdom

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Preface: Introducing Emily: Problems in the current systems of care for older people -- The Roots of Discrimination -- Trying to Understand It All: A Systems Approach -- Implementation Models -- Assessment: Getting to Know the Older Person -- Preventing Crises: Health Promotion, Chronic Disease Management and Risk Management -- Putting it in Place: Some Solutions -- Information Systems: Connecting Places -- Involving the Users -- Evaluating an Integrated Care System -- Levers and Tools for Integrating Care -- The New Professionals: New Ways of Working Together for Integrated Care -- Changing Places: The Way Ahead for the Care of Older People -- Integrating Care at the End of Life -- Epilogue: Remember Emily? Meet Winifred -- EPICS -- A Profile of an Elderly Persons Integrated Care System in South Buckinghamshire -- Other Models of Integrated Care -- Problems with hospital admission viewed from a systems perspective -- The vicious cycle of primary-secondary interface -- Systems map of integrated care -- Reinforcing and balancing loops -- Contrasting machines and complex adaptive systems -- The integrative whole systems model -- Moving the older person line down -- Moving the crisis line up -- Reducing the number of critical events -- The integrative care management model -- Value of 'older person partnership' -- EPICS organizational structure -- EPICS-r-US -- EPICS management and line management system -- Setting up and sustaining an integrated care system -- Setting up and sustaining an integrated care system (contd.).

ISBN

184310010X (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2002018447

OCLC

48966657

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library