Health Care of the Aged

Focusing on the need for developing new service delivery models for the aged Health Care of the Aged examines fiscal political and social criteria influencing this challenge of the 1990s. The aged are caught in the sweeping changes currently occuring in the financing organizing and delivery of human and health care services. From various perspectives this new book will help shape the direction for elderly health care program development and implementation. With an emphasis on greater long-term care in either home community or institutional settings this important book will increase the understanding for a comprehensive effective policy designed to carry the growing number of elderly through this decade and into the next. As roles and issues change this valuable book will become increasingly important to those involved in providing services and care to the elderly. Health care administrators policymakers social workers physical and occupational therapists and caregivers will benefit from the expertise presented in Health Care of the Aged.