Encyclopedia of Home Care for the Elderly

Cogent, concise, and up-to-date, this comprehensive and multidisciplinary one-volume encyclopedia written by experts from many fields covers all the major aspects of home health care for the elderly in America today. Patients, health care providers, and concerned family members, as well as students, teachers, practitioners, and policymakers in the fields of medicine, nursing, health care, social work, psychology and psychiatry, therapy and rehabilitation, sociology, public policy, and public administration will find this information important to their work in caring for the elderly. The clearly written articles discuss common problems, home care measures, trends, key issues, groups, and agencies. The entries point to sources for further reading. An appendix linking related topics, descriptions of 37 key organizations with addresses, a lengthy bibliography, and a full index make this basic reference easily accessible for broad audiences of readers.

"Designed to help consumers and providers understand the complexity of home health care, this encyclopedia describes trends, issues, and facts in 88 substantial, signed articles arranged alphabetically by entries. Suitable for undergraduate, graduate, and professional collections where home health care is a social, practical, or policy concern. There is no comparable encyclopedia." - Choice, "This comprehensive compendium will serve as a good resource for practitioners in the field of medicine, nursing, rehabilitation, occupational therapy, physical therapy, and social work. Healthcare providers, family members, and faculty and students in the field of gerontology will also find it useful." - Library Journal, "This work focuses on trends, issues, and facts relating to one of the fastest-growing sectors of the health-care field, home health care. This work will be of greatest interest to health-care and social work professionals and students as well as policy makers in the home care field. Intended to provide a broad spectrum of information about an important issue in our aging society." - Booklist/Reference Books Bulletin, "The book contains a useful appendix listing descriptions of public and private organizations related to home care. . . . [M]ost of the entries are well writen and interesting." - ARBA

Ada Romaine-Davis, associate professor and director of Baccalaureate Programs at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, has 45 years nursing experience in positions ranging from staff nurse to supervisor in hospitals. She has a PhD in higher education administration, supervision and curriculum, an MS degree in public health nursing and has completed post-doctoral study in the history of medicine. She has written at length about health care. Her previous books include Home Health Care: An Annotated Bibliographywith Ayeliffe Lenihan and M. Shannon (Greenwood, 1992).Jennifer Boondas is a clinical nurse and a specialist in gerontology with a broad base of experience in community health and clinical practice. Her professional career has included 30 years with the U.S. Public Health Service at all levels of government. She has participated in a multidiscipline collaborative effort to develop and improve home health services. More recently she has been engaged in a major research effort at Georgetown University to design a home health patient classification system. Now retired, she serves as a consultant in the field of gerontology. She has MS degrees in nursing gerontology and public health, and nursing degrees and diplomas. She has written at length on nursing and home care.Ayeliffe Lenihan has held academic positions at the University of Maryland and George Mason University, and has consulted widely in universities and organizations regarding the elderly. Prior to her retirement she was also project director on the federal grant, An Assessment Tool to Identify Self-Care Behavior in Community-Based Elderly.