Best at home : assuring quality long-term care in home and community-based settings / / Jull C. Feasley, editor

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910819021103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington D.C., : National Academy Press, 1996
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (83 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): FeasleyJill C. <1965->
• Disciplina: 362.16
• Soggetti: Long-term care of the sick - United States; Home care services - United States; Community health services - United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 57-61).
• Nota di contenuto: ""Best at Home: Assuring Quality Long-Term Care in Home and Community-Based Settings""; ""Copyright""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contents""; ""Summary""; ""ORIGINS OF THIS PLANNING ACTIVITY""; ""OVERVIEW OF HOME AND COMMUNITY-BASED LONG-TERM CARE""; ""CURRENT QUALITY ASSURANCE AND IMPROVEMENT STRATEGIES""; ""FUTURE STUDY PLAN""; ""1 Introduction and Background""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""ORIGINS OF THIS PLANNING ACTIVITY""; ""STUDY APPROACH""; ""DEFINITIONS AND CONCEPTS USED IN THIS REPORT""; ""Long-Term Care""; ""Disability""; ""Home Care""; ""Residential Care Settings""; ""Home and Community-Based Care""""Quality of Care""; ""ORGANIZATION OF THIS REPORT""; ""2 Long-Term Care in Home and Community-Based Settings""; ""OVERVIEW""; ""People Who Use Home and Community-Based Long-Term Care""; ""Home Care""; ""Residential Care""; ""Payers for Home and Community-Based Long-Term Care""; ""Providers of Home and Community-Based Long-Term Care""; ""Home Care""; ""Residential Care""; ""TRENDS IN HOME AND COMMUNITY-BASED CARE""; ""Shifts in Attitudes About the Provision of Care""; ""Growing Population of Consumers""; ""Changes in the Supply and Roles of Informal Caregivers""""Heightened Concerns About Cost, Access, and Availability of Services""; ""Increase in Service Delivery Experimentation""; ""Growing Concerns About ; Quality""; ""SUMMARY""; ""3 Current Quality Assurance and Improvement Strategies""; ""QUALITY MEASURES""; ""TYPES OF QUALITY ASSURANCE AND IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMS""; ""External Quality Assurance Programs""; ""Federal and State Regulation""; ""Voluntary Accreditation""; ""Other Quality-Related Mechanisms""; ""Internal Quality Assurance Programs""; ""ASSESSMENT OF QUALITY ASSURANCE AND IMPROVEMENT STRATEGIES""""Are Quality Assurance and Improvement Strategies Appropriate?""; ""Are Quality Assurance and Improvement Strategies Effective?""; ""Are Quality Assurance and Improvement Strategies Adequate?""; ""Concluding Thoughts""; ""SUMMARY""; ""4 Future Study Plan""; ""STUDY CONCEPT AND KEY QUESTIONS""; ""Key Study Questions""; ""STUDY ACTIVITIES""; ""Study Committee""; ""Data Collection""; ""Development of Recommendations and Products""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""5 Conclusions""; ""References""; ""APPENDIX A Legislative Mandate for IOM Studies""; ""TITLE IIâ€?ADMINISTRATION""""APPENDIX B Committee Biographies""; ""APPENDIX C Workshop Agenda and Participants""; ""AGENDA""; ""PARTICIPANTS""