Long-Term Care Medicine A Pocket Guide
Long-Term Care Medicine: A Pocket Guide lessens the uncertainty involved in caring for patients in a long-term care facility. This practical pocket guide is divided into four sections: Introduction, Common Clinical Conditions, Psychosocial Aspects, and Sp
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Long-Term Care Medicine A Pocket Guide
Pamela Ann Fenstemacher Abington Memorial Hospital, Family Medicine Residency Program Associate Director of Geriatric Education Abington, PA, USA and
Peter Winn University of Oklahoma, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, Professor and Head of Geriatric Program, Oklahoma City, OK, USA
Editors Pamela Ann Fenstemacher Associate Director of Geriatric Education of the Family Medicine Residency Program Abington Memorial Hospital Suite 108 500 Old York Road Jenkintown, Pennsylvania 19046 USA [email protected]
Peter Winn Professor and Head of Geriatric Program, University of Oklahoma, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, NE. 10th St. 900 73104 Oklahoma City Oklahoma USA [email protected]
ISBN 978-1-60761-141-7 e-ISBN 978-1-60761-142-4 DOI 10.1007/978-1-60761-142-4 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Humana Press, c/o Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. While the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of going to press, neither the authors nor the editors nor the publisher can accept any legal responsibility for any errors or omissions that may be made. The publisher makes no warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein. Printed on acid-free paper Humana Press is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer. com)
Individuals over 65 represent the fasted growing portion of the population in the United States, consume the highest proportion of the country’s healthcare dollars, and often live in a long-term care facility for the latter portion of their lives. The care in longterm care facilities is provided for by primary care physicians who may or may not be board certified in geriatrics and who more likely than not have never had a directed learning experience in long-term care. It is to this group of physicians, who provide to bulk of care to the most vulnerable portion of our population that this needed book is directed. The editors, Drs. Fenstemacher and Winn, have extensive academic and practical experience in long-term care and have been involved in leadership positions with the American
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