Long-Term Care for Frail Older People: Reaching for the Ideal System, Vol. 4

Author: John Creighton Campbell
Published: June 1999
Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York, LLC
ISBN: 4431702504
Hardcover Book
Number of Pages: 247

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Campbell, John Creighton, PhD (Univ of Michigan); Ikegami, Naoki, MD, MA, PhD (Keio Univ School of Medicine)

Table of Contents
Foreword
Keio University and the Keio University Medical Science Fund
Preface
Introduction and Summary 3
Commentary: Will We Have the Wisdom to Learn? 9
From the Perspective of the Older Person 13
Improving the Quality and Expanding the Quantity of Long-Term Care Staff 19
Social Aspects of Care and How They Relate with the Medical 23
Women's Roles as Caregivers: Family, Worker, Volunteer 27
Role of the Family in Long-Term Care 35
The Relationship Between Informal and Formal Care 49
Summary of the Discussion for Session 1 55
Introduction and Summary 61
Commentary: Preparing Health and Social Clinicians for Holistic Care 65
Maintaining Physical Functioning of Frail Older People 73
Physicians' Roles in the Geriatrics Interdisciplinary Team 77
The Role of Nurses in Long-Term Care for the Elderly 83
Issues Physicians Must Face Under Long-Term Care Insurance 87
Interface of Acute and Long-Term Care: Clinical Perspective 91
Training of Physicians for Long-Term Care 99
Long-Term Care: The Need for Special Medical Supervision and Collaboration Between Health and Social Services 103
Long-Term Care and Dementia 111
Summary of the Discussion for Session 2 119
Introduction and Summary 125
Commentary: Macroeconomic and Macropolitical Setting 131
Financing the Ideal Long-Term Care System Through Social Insurance 135
Learning from Other Countries' Experiences in Designing the Ideal Long-Term Care System 139
Long-Term Care Within National Social Policy 143
Financing Long-Term Care: What We Can Learn from the German Experience 149
Long-Term Care and the Labor Market 153
How the System Can Be Sustained Politically 157
Market Elements in Financing and Delivering Long-Term Care 161
Summary of the Discussion for Session 3 165
Introduction and Summary 171
Commentary: Cross-Cutting Themes in the Provision of LTC 177
Effective Care Management 181
Japan's Long-Term Care Insurance System: The Likely Impact on Service Suppliers and Their Staffs 189
Models of Long-Term Care That Work 195
The Development of Strategies for the Demented Elderly in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area 201
Achieving Quality in Institutional and Home-Based Long-Term Care 207
The Role of Housing in Long-Term Care for Old People 211
Balancing Institutional and Home and Community-Based Care 215
Summary of the Discussion for Session 4 219
Letter From Tokyo: Public Long-Term Care Insurance in Japan 225
Biographical Sketches of Participants 237
Addresses of the Participants 243

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