Cress, Cathy Jo

Handbook of geriatric care management / [edited by] Cathy Jo Cress. - Fourth edition. - 568 p. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Overview and history of geriatric care management -- Ethics and geriatric care management -- Psychosocial assessment in geriatric care management -- Functional assessment -- Care planning and geriatric assessment -- Ethnic and cultural considerations in GCM -- Moving an elder or late life relocation : the role of the GCM -- Spirituality -- Assessing and supporting the family caregiver -- Supporting clients' quality of life : drawing on community, informal netowrks and care manager creativity -- Technologies that support aging in place -- Serving the older veteran : understanding the issues and taking advantage of -- Available resources -- How to start or add a geriatric care management business -- After the start-up : growing a care management business -- Fee-for-service care management in not-for-profit settings -- Combining a PDHC agency and a GCM practice -- Marketing aging life care management -- Private revenue sources for the fee based geriatric care -- Care management credentialing -- Preparing for emergencies -- Depression and the older adult -- Geriatric care management : working with nearly normal aging families -- Difficult families : conflict, dependence, and mutuality -- Mediation and geriatric care management.

9781284078985 (alk. paper)

2015020550


Health Services for the Aged--organization & administration.
Geriatrics.
Practice Management--organization & administration.

RC952.55

362.198/97 / C H

WT 31