Research Catalog

Title

Health services for rural elders / Raymond T. Coward [and others], editors.

Publication

New York : Springer, ©1994.

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Details

Additional Authors

Coward, Raymond T.

Description

xiii, 286 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

This collection of original contributions reviews and critiques the current state of knowledge about the delivery of health care to rural elders.

Subject

• Rural older people > Medical care > United States
• Rural health services > United States
• Community health services for older people > United States
• Older people
• Rural health
• Aged
• Health Services for the Aged
• Rural Health
• elderly
• Rural health
• Older people
• Community health services for older people
• Rural health services
• United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-276) and index.

Contents

Ch. 1. An Overview of Health and Aging in Rural America / R.T. Coward, D.K. McLaughlin, R.P. Duncan and C.N. Bull -- Ch. 2. Informal Care of Rural Elders / E.P. Stoller and G.R. Lee -- Ch. 3. In-Home Services for Rural Elders / G.M. Nelson -- Ch. 4. Rural Aging Community-Based Services / J.A. Krout -- Ch. 5. Improving Ambulatory and Acute Care Services for the Rural Elderly: Current Solutions, Research, and Policy Directions / R.B. Wallace and P.L. Colsher -- Ch. 6. Rural Hospitals and Rural Elders / R.P. Duncan -- Ch. 7. Changing Institutional Long-Term Care to Improve Rural Health Care / P.W. Shaughnessy -- Ch. 8. Health Promotion with Rural Elders / S. FallCreek, J. Muchow and R.E. Mockenhaupt -- Ch. 9. Mental and Social Health of the Rural Elderly / K.C. Buckwalter, M. Smith and C. Caston -- Ch. 10. Epilogue: Reflections on Health Service for Rural Elders / C.F. Longino, Jr. and M.H. Smith.

ISBN

• 0826183409
• 9780826183408

LCCN

93033551

OCLC

• ocm28966592
• 28966592
• SCSB-2079695

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library