Overview

As the population of older adults in the U.S. continues to grow, medical house calls are increasingly part of a system of comprehensive home-based care for patients who have difficulty accessing office-.based care. Clinicians who have been trained mostly in office and hospital settings must adapt their usual approaches to accommodate a wide range of environmental, social, and physical circumstances that impact home-limited patients. Ideally, a comprehensive team of clinicians proficient in multiple domains of functional, social, and medical care can work together to address potential gaps in any one clinician’s expertise. Unfortunately, such teams are still rare. This book aims to equip individual clinicians with the interdisciplinary knowledge, skills, and perspective they need to provide the best care possible with limited formal interdisciplinary support. This book offers 20 patient cases drawn from the collective experience of experts in home-based medical care from highly respected academic and clinical programs across the United States. Each case demonstrates a scenario that is frequently encountered and/or very important in home-based medical care practice. Each scenario frequently proves to be challenging for many professionals because it requires an approach or leverages aspects of care delivery that most are not trained in. Additionally, each scenario reflects an approach to care that is enhanced by interdisciplinary input. Finally, each case lends itself to a practical problem-solving approach that could be accomplished by most home-based medical care providers, even in the absence of an interdisciplinary team. Written by interdisciplinary experts in geriatric home-based care, this book serves as both an educational tool for learners in all related disciplines as well as a quick reference for experienced clinicians looking to augment their existing house call “toolbox.” 

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Author:   Jessica L. Colburn ,  Bruce Leff ,  Jennifer Hayashi ,  Mattan Schuchman
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2020
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9783030234829

ISBN 10:   3030234827
Pages:   142
Publication Date:   30 September 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

1. Involuntary Weight Loss.- 2. Assessing Decision-Making Capacity.- 3. Acute Illness at Home.- 4. Dementia Behavior Management.- 5. Bacteriuria in a Patient with Incident Delirium.- 6. Caregiver Burden.- 7. Elder Abuse and Neglect.- 8. Management of Frequent Falls.- 9. Home Assessments: Improving Patients’ Capacity for Self-Management.- 10. Transitioning to Long-Term Care.- 11. Pressure Injuries.- 12. Opioid Management.- 13. Social Isolation.- 14. Serious Mental Illness.- 15. Functional Rehabilitation and Realistic Goals.-  16. Polypharmacy.- 17. Telephone Medicine.- 18. Morbid Obesity.- 19. Urinary Catheter Management at Home.- 20. End of Life Care.

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Jessica Colburn, MD Assistant Professor of Medicine Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology 5200 Eastern Avenue, Suite 2200 Baltimore, MD 21224 Bruce Leff, MD Professor of Medicine Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology 5200 Eastern Avenue, Suite 7000 Baltimore, MD 21224 Jennifer Hayashi, MD Medical Director, MedStar House Call Program 5601 Loch Raven Boulevard Smyth Building, Suite 201 Baltimore, MD 21239 Mattan Schuchman, MD Medical Director, Johns Hopkins Home-Based Medicine 5200 Eastern Avenue, Suite 2200 Baltimore, MD 21224 Dr. Bruce Leff is a professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He holds a joint appointment in the department of health policy and management in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Leff is an internationally recognized leader and researcher in the development, evaluation and dissemination of novel models of care for older adults, including the Hospital at Home, Guided Care, geriatric service line models and medical house call practices. In addition, his research interests extend to issues related to multi-morbidity, performance measurement and case-mix issues. He has a strong interest in health policy issues, is a Health and Aging Policy Fellow of the American Political Science Association, and has served on multiple technical expert panels for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.  In 2016, he published Geriatric Home Based Medical Care with Springer Science+Business Media, which remains the only authoritative texts on the subject.

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