Care for Frail Elders: Developing Community Solutions

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Leutz and his colleagues offer a practice-oriented and realistic assessment of how chronically ill elders are being served at the community level. They analyze options and opportunities open to policy makers and practitioners relative to long-term care in the community environment where so many elders want to be. In the process, the authors evaluate the range of needs involved, the importance of gender and cultural differences, and the effectiveness of Medicare and Medicaid as entitlement strategies. Community care constitutes, in the neglect thereof, a major gap in the nation's health-care system. The authors show that there are persuasive reasons to build, staff, manage, and pay for high quality community-care systems. Such programmes are demonstrated to be affordable and to meet more suitably the needs of a large percentage of elders who require long-term care. The authors set forth goals for community-care systems and criteria for assessment. This timely analysis, coupled with practical, socially compelling recommendations, sets out to respond effectively to the realities of an ageing population and the great public policy and fiscal concerns concerned.

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Caring for Frail Elders is an excellent volume that provides comprehensive analyses of a very complex set of policy issues. The authors succinctly review and integrate findings from past research and demonstration programs while presenting carefully developed and thoughtful strategies to address identified needs.-Journal of Aging & Social Policy
Without a doubt this is the most important monograph I have read regarding health care delivery for the elderly. I strongly recommend that readers of Clinical Gerontologist obtain a copy of it immediately. Furthermore, insist that your academic library purchase a copy. It would also be an appropriate purchase for a large public library.-Clinical Gerontologist
"Caring for Frail Elders is an excellent volume that provides comprehensive analyses of a very complex set of policy issues. The authors succinctly review and integrate findings from past research and demonstration programs while presenting carefully developed and thoughtful strategies to address identified needs."-Journal of Aging & Social Policy
"Without a doubt this is the most important monograph I have read regarding health care delivery for the elderly. I strongly recommend that readers of Clinical Gerontologist obtain a copy of it immediately. Furthermore, insist that your academic library purchase a copy. It would also be an appropriate purchase for a large public library."-Clinical Gerontologist

Author Bio

Walter N. Leutz is an Associate Research Professor at the Bigel Institute of Health Policy, The Heller School, Brandeis University. He has published Changing Healthcare for an Aging Society. John A. Capitman is a Research Professor at Bigel Institute and Director, National Aging Resource Center: Long-Term Care. Margaret MacAdam is Vice President for Community Services at Baycrest in Toronto, Canada. Ruby Abrahams is a Senior Research Associate at the Bigel Institute. She has published numerous articles on case management and assessment.