Long-Term Care Medicine

1. Home Care
Robert Salinas

2. Assisted Living and Residential Care
Daniel Haimowitz

3. Nursing Facilities
Richard G. Stefanacci

4. The Role of Practitioners and the Medical Director
Steven A. Levenson

5. Common Clinical Conditions in Long-Term Care
Naushira Pandya

6. Acute Change in Condition
J. Kenneth Brubaker

7. Health Maintenance and Prevention
Ross H. Albert

8. Integrating Palliative Care into Practice
Peter Winn

9. Weight and Nutrition
Todd H. Goldberg, Joel A. Levine

10. Wound Care
Andrew Rosenzweig, Mary Lee

11. Dementia, Delirium, and Depression
Deborah Way

12. Ethical and Legal Issues
David A. Smith, Randall D. Huss

13. Caring for Families
David Brechtelsbauer

14. Documentation and Coding
Alva Baker, Leonard Gelman

15. Medication Management in Long-Term Care
Susan T. Marcolina, Keith Swanson

16. Rehabilitation and Maximizing Function
Thomas Lawrence

Keywords: Medicine & Public Health, Geriatrics/Gerontology, Internal Medicine, General Practice / Family Medicine, Primary Care Medicine, Rehabilitation Medicine, Cardiology