Intermediate and continuing care [[electronic resource] ] : policy and practice / / edited by Brenda Roe, Roger Beech

• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2005
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (298 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.16/0941
• Soggetto topico: Older people - Intermediate care - Great Britain; Older people - Long-term care - Great Britain; Intermediate care (Nursing care) - Great Britain; Long-term care facilities - Great Britain; Continuum of care - Great Britain
• Altri autori: RoeBrenda H BeechRoger
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intermediate care : policy and context / Jenny Cowpe -- Identifying the need and scope for intermediate care / Roger Beech -- Management and planning of services / Tom Bowen, Paul Forte, and Chris Foote -- Coordinating intermediate care / Wanda Russell -- Service development and evaluation in intermediate care / Brenda Roe -- Interdisciplinary working in intermediate care : generic working or the key to a person centred approach? / Anne Marriott ... [et al.] -- Interdisciplinary training and development / Julie Howden -- Evidence on the effectiveness of intermediate care / Roger Beech -- Economic evaluation of intermediate care / Richard Little -- ; Continuing care : policy and context / David Challis and Ann Netten -- Community care : service delivery, development and evaluation / David Challis and Jane Hughes -- Alternative housing and care arrangements : the evidence / Robin Darton and Ann-Marie Muncer -- Care homes and continuing care / Anne Netten, Robin Darton and Jacquetta Williams -- Interdisciplinary working and education in continuing care / Abigail Masterson and Sian Maslin-Prothero -- Carers and caregiving in the context of intermediate and continuing care / Dianne Seddon and Catherine Robinson -- Patient and public involvement in service design and evaluation / Bie Nio Ong and Geoff Wood -- Implications for policy and practice : the future / Brenda Roe and Roger Beech.
• Sommario/riassunto: Intermediate care comprises strategies which allow early discharge from acute care, prevent admission or re-admission to acute care and avoid bed-blocking in both acute and long-term residential care. It encompasses a range of short-term options including rapid response, hospital at home, residential rehabilitation, supported discharge and day rehabilitation. Continuing Care is delivered on a long-term basis in a variety of settings and often includes an element of rehabilitation.Although these two types of care have distinct objectives, they are interrelated as changes in the supply o
• Titolo autorizzato: Intermediate and continuing care
• ISBN: 1-281-31930-9; 9786611319304; 0-470-77496-7; 0-470-77755-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996202098903316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno