Geriatrics Models of Care

This book describes geriatrics practice models that are used to guide the care of older adults, allowing seniors to remain at home, prevent functional disability and preserve quality of life. The models include specific interventions which are performed by health care workers to address the needs of older persons and their caregivers. These models respect patient values, consider patient safety and appreciate psychosocial needs as well. Divided into six parts that discuss hospital-based models of care, transitions from hospital to home, outpatient-based models of care and emergency department models of care, this text addresses the needs of vulnerable patients and the community.Geriatric Models of Care is an excellent resource for health care leaders who must translate these programs to address the needs of the patients in their communities.

Provides best practices for care of seniors

Section One: Hospital-based models of care:1. Acute Care for Elders.- 2. Hospital Elder Life Program.- 3. The ACE Consult program.- 4.The Advanced Dementia Consult program.- 5. Acute Care for Elders (ACE) Tracker and "e-Geriatrician" telemedicine program.- 6. The NICHE program to prepare the workforce to address the needs of older patients.- Section Two: Models to address the needs of seniors in transition from hospital to home: 7. Care Transitions Intervention.-8. The Mary Naylor Advanced Practice Nurse model.- 9. Project BOOST.- Section Three: Outpatient-based models of care: 10. The GRACE model. 11. The Guided Care model.- 12. The Stanford Chronic Disease Self-Management program.- 13. Patient Centered Medical Home.- 14. Hospital at Home model.- 15. The Physician Home Visit program.-16. Geriatrics Evaluation and Management (GEM) program.- Section Four: Emergency Department models of care: 17. Geriatrics Emergency Department - the GEDI WISE program.- Section Five: Models which address the needs of vulnerable populations: 18. The Evercare program to care for vulnerable elders in skilled nursing facilities.- 19. The UCLA Dementia coordinator program.- 20. The Wisconsin Alzheimer's Institute memory assessment program. 21. Memory Care Connections and LEEPS program for early memory assessment.- Section Six: Community related- models of care: 22. Stepping On-falls prevention program.- 23. Program of All-Inclusive Care of Elders (PACE model).- 24. Wisconsin Family Care social modelto support seniors in their homes.