04439nam a22004935i 4500 978-3-031-68786-0 DE-He213 20251030113326.0 cr nn 008mamaa 241126s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031687860 978-3-031-68786-0 10.1007/978-3-031-68786-0 doi RC952-954.6 MJX bicssc MED032000 bisacsh MKN thema Geriatric Home-Based Medical Care [electronic resource] : Principles and Practice / edited by Jessica L. Colburn, Bruce Leff, Mariah L. Robertson, Mattan Schuchman. 2nd ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer, 2024. XIV, 312 p. 24 illus. in color. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda 1. Introducing Home-Based Medical Care -- 2. Getting Started with Home-Based Medical Care -- 3. Care Planning and Coordination of Services -- 4. How to Perform a House Call -- 5. Common Cognitive Issues in Home-Based Medical Care -- 6. Common Neurologic Issues -- 7. Adult Psychiatric Care in the Home -- 8. Functional Assessment and Common Functional Problems -- 9. Common Medical Issues in Home-Based Medical Care -- 10. Common Infections -- 11. Wound Care in Home-Based Settings -- 12. Social and Ethical Issues in Home-Based Medical Care -- 13. Palliative Care -- 14. Caregiving. Older adults are living longer with more chronic disease and functional impairment than at any other time in history. Office-based practice is inadequate to meet the needs of patients who have difficulty leaving their homes for routine or urgent visits, and health care clinicians must choose between trying to manage their problems via telehealth or sending them to the emergency room via ambulance. Indeed, many clinicians receive little or no training in home-based medical care and are unable to consider a home visit that might avert a health crisis or an emergency room visit. Other clinicians know that house calls are possible but may not know how to work them into day-to-day practice.   In recent years, a growing number of clinicians have focused their practice on home-based medical care to meet the rising need. In fact, there has been a substantial increase in house calls provided to Medicare beneficiaries. In 2023, over 750,000 traditional Medicare beneficiaries, and in 2022, over 680,000 Medicare Advantage beneficiaries received longitudinal home-based medical care. While the number of house calls has increased rapidly, the number of clinicians providing those visits has markedly decreased, suggesting that clinicians who are providing such care are making it the sole focus of their practice.   This book is intended to be a practical reference for any clinician who has struggled to care for an older adult who has difficulty getting to the office.  By describing fundamental principles of geriatric house call medicine and application to specific diseases and conditions, we hope to provide clinicians with the tools they need to provide timely, compassionate, and high-quality care for their older adult patients. The second edition has been updated to reflect changes in the healthcare system and approaches to care since the publication of the first edition. Geriatrics. 64200 Geriatrics. 64200 Colburn, Jessica L. editor. edt http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 88000 Leff, Bruce. editor. edt http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 88001 Robertson, Mariah L. editor. edt http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 88002 Schuchman, Mattan. editor. edt http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 88003 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031687853 Printed edition: 9783031687877 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-68786-0 ZDB-2-SME ZDB-2-SXM 65187 65187