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This book addresses current issues surrounding hospital readmissions and the practice of post-acute and long-term care (LTC). Thoroughly updated, the Second Edition of this practical pocket guide presents new regulations governing these services and lessens the uncertainty involved in caring for patients in a long-term care facility. The book is divided into four sections that cover: types of care, which include community care, nursing facility care, and teamwork; clinical medicine, with suggested approaches to common conditions and wound care; psychosocial aspects of care, which include ethical and legal issues and caring for families; and special issues, with chapters on documentation, coding, and medication management. As community-based care is an area of rapid growth where the elderly are increasingly seeking their medical care, new chapters have also been added that describe these programs. Written by expert contributors, many of whom have worked within AMDA – The Society for Post-acute and Long-term Care Medicine to create and disseminate a knowledge base for post-acute and LTC, this is a valuable resource for clinicians and educators seeking to maximize the care and living experience of residents in post-acute and long-term care settings.

Geriatrics --- Medicine --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Long-term care of the sick --- Home care services --- Law and legislation. --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Home health agencies --- Home health care --- Medicine. --- General practice (Medicine). --- Cardiology. --- Geriatrics. --- Primary care (Medicine). --- Rehabilitation medicine. --- Medicine & Public Health. --- Geriatrics/Gerontology. --- General Practice / Family Medicine. --- Primary Care Medicine. --- Rehabilitation Medicine. --- Medicine, Rehabilitation --- Rehabilitation medicine --- Rehabilitation --- Medicine, Physical --- Primary medical care --- Medical care --- Gerontology --- Older people --- Heart --- Internal medicine --- Clinical sciences --- Medical profession --- Human biology --- Life sciences --- Medical sciences --- Pathology --- Physicians --- Diseases --- Health and hygiene --- Community health services --- Medical laws and legislation --- Family medicine. --- Emergency medicine. --- Rehabilitation. --- Medicine, Emergency --- Critical care medicine --- Disaster medicine --- Medical emergencies --- Family practice (Medicine) --- General practice (Medicine) --- Physicians (General practice) --- Family medicine

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This book addresses current issues surrounding hospital admissions and readmissions and the practice of post-acute and long-term care (LTC). Now in its fully revised and expanded third edition, it contains the most up-to-date knowledge and regulations pertinent to practice in Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine. Post-Acute and Long-Term Medicine is divided into four main sections. The first section is an introduction to long-term care. It includes chapters on home health care, assisted living and residential care, department of veteran affairs and nursing facilities, among others. The second section focuses on clinical medicine in post-acute and long-term care and contains chapters on common clinical conditions, preventing hospital admissions and readmissions, palliative care, weight and nutrition and wound care. The third section details psychosocial aspects of post-acute and long-term care. Chapters in this section describe dementia, delirium, depression, ethical and legal issues and caring for families. The fourth and final section centers on special issues in post-acute and long-term care. This section focuses on documentation and coding, medication management and rehabilitation and maximizing function. The outbreak of COVID-19 has led to two very important new chapters in this section. One chapter discusses challenges and opportunities in post-acute long-term care that have arisen during the pandemic. Another new chapter talks about the importance of virtual care and telemedicine in post-acute and long-term care amidst the COVID-19 outbreak. Written by experts in the field, many of whom have worked within AMDA – The Society for Post-acute and Long-term Care Medicine - to create and disseminate a knowledge base for post-acute and LTC, this is a valuable resource for clinicians and educators seeking to maximize the care and living experience of residents in post-acute and long-term care settings.

Family medicine. --- Primary care (Medicine). --- Internal medicine. --- General Practice and Family Medicine. --- Primary Care Medicine. --- Internal Medicine. --- Medicine, Internal --- Medicine --- Primary medical care --- Medical care --- Family practice (Medicine) --- General practice (Medicine) --- Physicians (General practice)