Overview
Entry into the long-term health care system often happens suddenly. A mental or physical breakdown seriously weakens you or your parents’ health, leaving you unable to cope with a host of complex decisions, rules, and information. Families must nevertheless make rapid, vital decisions about long-term care, often involving a nursing home. At the same time, new state laws and federal regulations make it nearly impossible for consumers to understand the rules of long-term care that apply in their case—let alone how to use them. Such traumatic situations often lead families into a state of chaos, confusion, and panic—until now.
Consumer Guide to Long-Term Care provides the first comprehensive guide to making decisions about nursing homes, home care, assisted living, and other options. It empowers consumers and their families, telling them how to protect their rights and advocate for a high standard of care and excellent quality of life. This essential reference offers key information, in one convenient source, on where to find the most up-to-date, accurate facts quickly and easily. Author Gary Ilminen takes the mystery out of such topics as managed care, prospective pricing, and bundled services. He explains how to deal with choosing a facility, paying for care, and other difficult issues, including the right to refuse care. Equipped with this book, you can make informed choices that ensure the best possible experience for yourself or a family member when long-term care becomes a necessity.
The book contains black-and-white illustrations.
This book provides the first comprehensive guide to long-term care. Equipped with this book, the reader can make informed choices that ensure the best experience for oneself or a family member when long-term care becomes a necessity.
Synopsis
"The clear, concise and easy-to-follow format provides critical information needed to make difficult decisions. A must-read for adult children of the elderly and anyone working in long-term care."--Pamela M Mokler, gerontologist. Author lectures.
Lori L. Popejoy
This is an overview of the issues that surround resident care in a long-term care facility. The editor intends to empower potential residents and their families to have a meaningful influence on the quality of care in a long-term care facility. The materials are intended to be used by consumers. However, the book would be helpful to any professional staff member that is new to long-term care. Most of the issues in the book are discussed from the regulatory framework. The rules of Medicare and Medicaid eligibility and ongoing care are discussed extensively. This book is an excellent resource about the rules that govern long-term care. It is written in an easy to read format. However, consumers or families not familiar with the long-term care environment may find it somewhat intimidating and frightening. This book would be an excellent first resource for staff new to long-term care. The concise overview of the rules that govern long term care and discussion about quality of care issues would be very helpful.
Editorials
Lori L. Popejoy
This is an overview of the issues that surround resident care in a long-term care facility. The editor intends to empower potential residents and their families to have a meaningful influence on the quality of care in a long-term care facility. The materials are intended to be used by consumers. However, the book would be helpful to any professional staff member that is new to long-term care. Most of the issues in the book are discussed from the regulatory framework. The rules of Medicare and Medicaid eligibility and ongoing care are discussed extensively. This book is an excellent resource about the rules that govern long-term care. It is written in an easy to read format. However, consumers or families not familiar with the long-term care environment may find it somewhat intimidating and frightening. This book would be an excellent first resource for staff new to long-term care. The concise overview of the rules that govern long term care and discussion about quality of care issues would be very helpful.From The Critics
Reviewer: Lori L. Popejoy, PhD, APRN, BC(University of Missouri-Columbia)Description: This is an overview of the issues that surround resident care in a long-term care facility.
Purpose: The editor intends to empower potential residents and their families to have a meaningful influence on the quality of care in a long-term care facility.
Audience: The materials are intended to be used by consumers. However, the book would be helpful to any professional staff member that is new to long-term care.
Features: Most of the issues in the book are discussed from the regulatory framework. The rules of Medicare and Medicaid eligibility and ongoing care are discussed extensively.
Assessment: This book is an excellent resource about the rules that govern long-term care. It is written in an easy to read format. However, consumers or families not familiar with the long-term care environment may find it somewhat intimidating and frightening. This book would be an excellent first resource for staff new to long-term care. The concise overview of the rules that govern long term care and discussion about quality of care issues would be very helpful.
Booknews
This reader-friendly guide is meant to familiarize prospective tenants and their adult children with terminology, forms, and issues while also helping them to narrow their search for a nursing home, assisted living facility, or home health service. Ilminen, who has served as director of nursing in both nursing homes and in home health, covers medical and legal terms, payment options, patient rights, OBRA regulations, dietary and other health considerations, and sources of information including insurance counselors and ombudsman programs. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)2 Stars from Doody