Long Term Care: An Annotated Bibliography

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This broadly-framed bibliography deals with the many complex and diverse issues related to chronic illness and chronic care services. Following a brief introduction, the bibliography is arranged in topical chapters dealing with the history of long term care, institutional care, community services, administrative issues, noninstitutional care, housing, costs of long term care, minorities and special populations, ethics, public policy issues, and demographics. Author and subject indexes make the information easily accessible for students, teachers, policymakers, health care providers, and general readers to use in academic, institutional, and public libraries.

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Alothough the existence of on-line databases makes such biblogpahical publications less essential, there is still something to be said for letting experts in the field list and summarize the work that forms an outline of basic knowledge of a particular field.-ARBA
Since few, if any, bibliographies are devoted soley to this subject, this work will be useful for students, researchers, teachers, and health care professionals in a variety of disciplines.-Choice
The authors have done an outstanding job of covering the literature and organizing it into an easily accessible form. The book will be useful for students, teachers, and researchers who need to know what research has (or has not) been done in the field of long-term-care. It will also be useful to long-term care administrators, physicians, mental health workers, geriatricians, nurses, nurses aids, and clinical social workers. The volume would be well used in academic, institutional, and public libraries.-Contemporary Gertology
The strengths of this volume are that most of the citations are recent, important works, and the annotations are some of the most thorough in the Greenwood series.-Clinical Gerontologisto
"Alothough the existence of on-line databases makes such biblogpahical publications less essential, there is still something to be said for letting experts in the field list and summarize the work that forms an outline of basic knowledge of a particular field."-ARBA
"Since few, if any, bibliographies are devoted soley to this subject, this work will be useful for students, researchers, teachers, and health care professionals in a variety of disciplines."-Choice
"The strengths of this volume are that most of the citations are recent, important works, and the annotations are some of the most thorough in the Greenwood series."-Clinical Gerontologisto
"The authors have done an outstanding job of covering the literature and organizing it into an easily accessible form. The book will be useful for students, teachers, and researchers who need to know what research has (or has not) been done in the field of long-term-care. It will also be useful to long-term care administrators, physicians, mental health workers, geriatricians, nurses, nurses aids, and clinical social workers. The volume would be well used in academic, institutional, and public libraries."-Contemporary Gertology

Author Bio

THEODORE H. KOFF, Director of the Arizona Center on Aging and Professor, School of Public Administration and Policy, and the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Arizona, is the author of Aging Public Policy: Bonding the Generations (1993), New Approaches to Health Care for an Aging Population: Developing a Continuum of Chronic Care Services (1988), and Long Term Care: An Approach to Serving the Frail Elderly (1982), among other works. KRISTINE M. BURSAC, Assistant Director of the Arizona Center on Aging and Director of Project OPEN (Older Person's Emergency Network) and the Crime and the Elderly Study at the University of Arizona, is the coauthor of More than a Statistic: An Educational Program for Older Adults on Avoiding Criminal Victimization and More than a Statistic: A Training Program on Working with the Elderly for Police Officers, among other works.