Adult Psychiatric Care in the Home
Over the last 2 weeks, how often have you been bothered by any of the following problems? Not at all Several days More than half of the days Nearly every…
Care Planning and Coordination of Services
Home-based medical care • Diagnostic • Urgent care • Hospital at home • Transitional care • Chronic primary care • Palliative care Home health agency • Nursing – Infusion – Wound care – Education – Assessment – Psychiatric nursing • Therapy – Physical – Occupational…
Common Functional Problems
Malignancy (19–36 %) Gastrointestinal: accounts for 50 % Lung, lymphoma, prostate, ovarian, or bladder Nonmalignant gastrointestinal disease (9–19 %) Swallowing and motility disorders Peptic ulcer disease Malabsorption Chronic diseases Endocrine…
Palliative Care
Fig. 12.1 Homecare medicine and palliative care : skills and settings Table 12.1 Primary palliative care Key components of primary palliative care Pain/symptom assessment and management Social/spiritual assessment Understanding of…
Introducing Home-Based Medical Care
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016Jennifer L. Hayashi and Bruce Leff (eds.)Geriatric Home-Based Medical Care10.1007/978-3-319-23365-9_1 1. Introducing Home-Based Medical Care Jennifer L. Hayashi1 and Bruce Leff1 (1) Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, Johns Hopkins University School of…
Caregiving
Patient characteristics Caregiver characteristics Dementia, especially with neuropsychiatric symptoms or behavioral disturbances [8] Increasing ADL/IADL dependence [10, 12] Presence of geriatric syndromes (e.g., falls, sleep disturbance) [10, 12] Spouse and/or…
Social and Ethical Issues in Home-Based Medical Care
Accurately understand the choices Manipulate relevant information and weigh risks and benefits Communicate a decision Be consistent 11.4.2 Threshold for Evaluation and Certification of Incapacity Even when a person can…
Person- and relationship-centred care in dementia
Patient-focused care Providing care that is respectful of and responsive to individual patient preferences, needs and values, and ensuring that patient values guide all clinical decisions. The support for a…
National and international perspectives: Interprofessional education and collaborative practice
Interprofessional education (IPE) Interprofessional education occurs when two or more professions learn with, from and about each other to improve collaboration and the quality of care (http://www.caipe.org.uk/about-us/defining-ipe/). When students from…
Understanding ethics and dementia care
Ethics The body of values and judgements relating to human conduct, especially with respect to the rightness and wrongness of certain actions, and to the motives and ends of such…
