Long-Term Care: Managing Across the Continuum [Hardcover]

John R. Pratt (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 15, 1999 | ISBN-10: 0834210320 | ISBN-13: 978-0834210325 | Edition: 1st

Even as you read this, the field of long-term care is undergoing a rapid redefinition of both its institutional and community-based providers. Public policy makers are working to add much-needed alternative modes of delivery to traditional long-term institutional care. New rules, new levels, and new kinds of care are constantly being created. As a result, tomorrow's long-term care administrators will have to be flexible enough to adapt to different management settings, and to oversee an ever-expanding variety of services. They will need the skills essential to managing larger organizations, likely to include multiple aspects of long-term care. Long-Term Care: Managing Across the Continuum provides a solid, realistic foundation on which to build your expertise. You will understand the differences and similarities among the many long-term care services... how the various segments of long-term care fit together to form an overall system...and the skills you will need to succeed in that system in the future.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 615 pages
• Publisher: Aspen Pub; 1st edition (February 15, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0834210320
• ISBN-13: 978-0834210325
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.2 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,455,725 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #99 in Books > Medical Books > Nursing > Long-Term Care

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great stuff, March 13, 2001

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This review is from: Long-Term Care: Managing Across the Continuum (Hardcover)

I am a student studying health services. This book gives so much information on nursing administration, elder care, insurance, OBRA, etc. I found it very helpful with my class work, as well as, my own personal issues with my elderly parents. It's a book that's worth having in your home library because it has so much to offer schoolastically and personally.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Helpful Book for Understanding the Long-Term Care System, May 6, 2005

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This review is from: Long-term Care: Managing Across the Continuum (Hardcover)

This was assigned as a text book and it was a good one. This text is packed with information on the various ways long-term care is delivered in the US today. After one reads this book they will understand the complexities of the long-term care health care system. Pratt discusses, funding, organizational structures, regulation, accreditation, and how the different types of long-term care fit into the whole system.

Each chapter builds to provide a complete picture of long-term care and understanding how all the parts fit together to make a whole system. This book is strongest is in its discussion of funding structures and how funding impacts service delivery. The strongest chapters were on quality and the various ways that quality is currently measured. Pratt points out that measuring process and systems as is currently and most commonly done does not always guarantee quality outcomes.

Chapter 2 which discusses the "ideal" long-term care health system and Appendix A: Criteria for Designing or Evaluating a Long-Term Care System are worth the price of this book because the information contained in these pages can assist long-term care administrators strengthen their facilities and service delivery and policy makers in understanding the complexities of long-term care systems.