Improving the Quality of Long-Term Care
eBook - ePub

Improving the Quality of Long-Term Care

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eBook - ePub

Improving the Quality of Long-Term Care

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About this book

Among the issues confronting America is long-term care for frail, older persons and others with chronic conditions and functional limitations that limit their ability to care for themselves.Improving the Quality of Long-Term Care takes a comprehensive look at the quality of care and quality of life in long-term care, including nursing homes, home health agencies, residential care facilities, family members and a variety of others. This book describes the current state of long-term care, identifying problem areas and offering recommendations for federal and state policymakers.Who uses long-term care? How have the characteristics of this population changed over time? What paths do people follow in long term care? The committee provides the latest information on these and other key questions.This book explores strengths and limitations of available data and research literature especially for settings other than nursing homes, on methods to measure, oversee, and improve the quality of long-term care. The committee makes recommendations on setting and enforcing standards of care, strengthening the caregiving workforce, reimbursement issues, and expanding the knowledge base to guide organizational and individual caregivers in improving the quality of care.

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Information

Publisher
National Academies Press
Year
2001
eBook ISBN
9780309132749
Edition
0
Topic
Medicine

Table of contents

  1. COVER PAGE
  2. THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES
  3. COMMITTEE ON IMPROVING QUALITY IN LONG-TERM CARE
  4. BOARD ON HEALTH CARE SERVICES INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Reviewers
  7. Contents
  8. Tables and Figures
  9. Executive Summary
  10. 1 Introduction
  11. 2 Profile of Long-Term Care
  12. 3 State of Quality of Long-Term Care
  13. 4 Information Systems for Monitoring Quality
  14. 5 Improving Quality Through External Oversight
  15. 6 Strengthening the Caregiving Work Force
  16. 7 Building Organizational Capacity
  17. 8 Reimbursing to Improve Quality of Care
  18. 9 Closing Remarks
  19. References
  20. APPENDIX A Committee Meetings and Presenters of Testimony
  21. APPENDIX B Separate Dissenting Opinions
  22. Acronyms
  23. Biographical Sketches of Committee Members
  24. Index