Best at home : assuring quality long-term care in home and community-based settings / Jull C. Feasley, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Feasley, Jill C., 1965-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Long-term care of the sick--United States.

Long-term care of the sick.

Home care services--United States.

Home care services.

Community health services--United States.

Community health services.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (83 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington D.C. : National Academy Press, 1996.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

""Best at Home: Assuring Quality Long-Term Care in Home and Community-Based Settings""; ""Copyright""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contents""; ""Summary""; ""ORIGINS OF THIS PLANNING ACTIVITY""; ""OVERVIEW OF HOME AND COMMUNITY-BASED LONG-TERM CARE""; ""CURRENT QUALITY ASSURANCE AND IMPROVEMENT STRATEGIES""; ""FUTURE STUDY PLAN""; ""1 Introduction and Background""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""ORIGINS OF THIS PLANNING ACTIVITY""; ""STUDY APPROACH""; ""DEFINITIONS AND CONCEPTS USED IN THIS REPORT""; ""Long-Term Care""; ""Disability""; ""Home Care""; ""Residential Care Settings""

""Home and Community-Based Care""""Quality of Care""; ""ORGANIZATION OF THIS REPORT""; ""2 Long-Term Care in Home and Community-Based Settings""; ""OVERVIEW""; ""People Who Use Home and Community-Based Long-Term Care""; ""Home Care""; ""Residential Care""; ""Payers for Home and Community-Based Long-Term Care""; ""Providers of Home and Community-Based Long-Term Care""; ""Home Care""; ""Residential Care""; ""TRENDS IN HOME AND COMMUNITY-BASED CARE""; ""Shifts in Attitudes About the Provision of Care""; ""Growing Population of Consumers""

""Changes in the Supply and Roles of Informal Caregivers""""Heightened Concerns About Cost, Access, and Availability of Services""; ""Increase in Service Delivery Experimentation""; ""Growing Concerns About Quality""; ""SUMMARY""; ""3 Current Quality Assurance and Improvement Strategies""; ""QUALITY MEASURES""; ""TYPES OF QUALITY ASSURANCE AND IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMS""; ""External Quality Assurance Programs""; ""Federal and State Regulation""; ""Voluntary Accreditation""; ""Other Quality-Related Mechanisms""; ""Internal Quality Assurance Programs""

""ASSESSMENT OF QUALITY ASSURANCE AND IMPROVEMENT STRATEGIES""""Are Quality Assurance and Improvement Strategies Appropriate?""; ""Are Quality Assurance and Improvement Strategies Effective?""; ""Are Quality Assurance and Improvement Strategies Adequate?""; ""Concluding Thoughts""; ""SUMMARY""; ""4 Future Study Plan""; ""STUDY CONCEPT AND KEY QUESTIONS""; ""Key Study Questions""; ""STUDY ACTIVITIES""; ""Study Committee""; ""Data Collection""; ""Development of Recommendations and Products""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""5 Conclusions""; ""References""; ""APPENDIX A Legislative Mandate for IOM Studies""

""TITLE II�ADMINISTRATION""""APPENDIX B Committee Biographies""; ""APPENDIX C Workshop Agenda and Participants""; ""AGENDA""; ""PARTICIPANTS""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 57-61).

OCLC:

883573267