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Overview
This book offers convenient access to information about the benefits, drawbacks and challenges of importing high-technology medical care into the home care programs. It is both a descriptive report of research-based observations, and an interpretive analysis of major issues and policies in the delivery of technology-enhanced care. The authors bring to the forefront evidence-based current home care practices, such as ventilator therapy and artificial nutrition infusion pumps, and develop them through complete discussions of legal, ethical and administrative issues they entail. Agency administrators as well as in-home direct service providers like nurses and social workers, will find essential information on a critical home care delivery issue presented with clarity and accessibility.
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This volume offers the reader convenient access to much needed information about the unique benefits, drawbacks and challenges of importing high-technology into the homes of the elderly and disabled. It is a unique combination of both a descriptive report of research-based observations from the frontlines of home health agency operations and interpretive analyses of major issues, policies, and practices informing the delivery of high tech-home health services. Content will be relevant to those agency planners and administrators, managers, and supervisors who are considering engaging in or have recently implemented a high-tech service program in their organization as well as in-home direct service providers like nurses and social workers.
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Editorials
From The Critics
Reviewer: Kimberly M. O'Connor, MS, RN(Visiting Nurse Association of Central New York)Description: This text includes research based information and analysis of issues for delivering a high-tech program in a home care agency or through another healthcare facility. Topics are covered surrounding the shift from acute needs of elderly consumers in the hospital to the home care arena. Past, current, and future trends and reimbursement options are discussed.
Purpose: This book alerts healthcare providers to the emerging technologies available in caring for the more acutely ill client in the home setting. The reader develops a knowledge of the importance of allowing the client to remain at home during an acute phase of illness and the benefits that are derived. The authors address the realities of competency training and added costs to the healthcare provider as well as the consumer.
Audience: The book is targeted to agency planners, administrators, managers, supervisors, and direct service providers (RN, PT, OT, SW, HHA). It is useful in raising awareness of the specialty needs of consumers, special training needed for all service providers, and target population on which to to focus initial efforts.
Features: Results from a national and local survey of current practices and difficulties facing high-tech home care providers are presented. The appendixes provide survey methodology, nation-wide sources of high-tech home care information, and a brief summary of treatments for high-tech care. This is very helpful to the inexperienced or novice provider of advanced technology.
Assessment: This publication is useful to the home health agency with plans to implement high-tech care. It is written from the perspective of clinicians with a social service background and deals primarily with options available in home care now, reimbursement issues, planning and development, and benefits to the elder consumer.
Kimberly M. O'Connor
This text includes research based information and analysis of issues for delivering a high-tech program in a home care agency or through another healthcare facility. Topics are covered surrounding the shift from acute needs of elderly consumers in the hospital to the home care arena. Past, current, and future trends and reimbursement options are discussed. This book alerts healthcare providers to the emerging technologies available in caring for the more acutely ill client in the home setting. The reader develops a knowledge of the importance of allowing the client to remain at home during an acute phase of illness and the benefits that are derived. The authors address the realities of competency training and added costs to the healthcare provider as well as the consumer. The book is targeted to agency planners, administrators, managers, supervisors, and direct service providers (RN, PT, OT, SW, HHA). It is useful in raising awareness of the specialty needs of consumers, special training needed for all service providers, and target population on which to to focus initial efforts. Results from a national and local survey of current practices and difficulties facing high-tech home care providers are presented. The appendixes provide survey methodology, nation-wide sources of high-tech home care information, and a brief summary of treatments for high-tech care. This is very helpful to the inexperienced or novice provider of advanced technology. This publication is useful to the home health agency with plans to implement high-tech care. It is written from the perspective of clinicians with a social service background and deals primarily with options available in home care now,reimbursement issues, planning and development, and benefits to the elder consumer.3 Stars from Doody