Consumer Voice and Choice in Long-Term Care - Suzanne Kunkel, Valerie Wellin

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Consumer Voice and Choice in Long-Term Care

Editors: Suzanne Kunkel, PhD; Valerie Wellin, BA

Pub Date: 06/2006
288 pp Hardback
ISBN13: 9780826102102

List: $55.00

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Description

IMPROVE LONG-TERM CARE WITH NEW CUSTOMER PARTICIPATION METHODS

Providing clear guidance on how to apply new customer satisfaction models to the quality of long-term care, this collection reviews how consumers contribute to, and assist in, the management of their own long-term care. The latest issues and ideas are provided for the following aspects of research and management:

Development and Planning Strategies
Consumer Satisfaction Measurement Models
Consumer Satisfaction and Quality Improvement Models
Development of Case Management Guidelines

From reviewing the important factors and challenges that influence consumer choice to exploring the approaches required to evaluate needs, preferences, and perspectives, this new and valuable resource is a must-have reference for the improvement of long-term care in both the institutional and community settings.

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Special Features

Cash and Counseling initiative
Challenges facing case managers
Consumer-drive health care worker well-being
Consumer-provider relationships
Challenges to consumer self-direction
Cultural and ideological factors
Quality of care

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Table of Contents

Part I: Consumer Choice

Older Consumers and Decision Making: A Look at Family Caregivers and Care Receivers, Carol J. Whitlatch
Choice and the Institutionalized Elderly, Susan C. Reinhard, Sandra Howell White, & Winifred Quinn
History of and Lessons from the Cash and Counseling Demonstration and Evaluation, Kevin J. Mahoney & Kristin Simone
A Description of Racial/Ethnic Differences Regarding Consumer Directed Community Long-Term Care, Mark Sciegaj
Case Managers' Perspectives on Consumer Direction, Suzanne R. Kunkel & Ian M. Nelson
Integrating Occupational Health and Safety into the United States' Personal Assistance Services Workforce Research Agenda, Teresa Scherzer, Susan Chapman, & Robert Newcomer
Backs to the Future: The Challenge of Individual Long-Term Care Planning, Kathryn B. McGrew

Part II: Consumer Voice

Capturing the Voice of Consumers in Long-Term Care: If You Ask Them They Will Tell, Robert A. Applebaum, Gwen C. Uman, & Jane K. Straker
Caregiver as Consumer: Perspectives on Quality, Suzanne R. Kunkel, Kathy B. McGrew, Robert A. Applebaum, & Shawn L. Davis
The Consumer/Provider Relationship as Care Quality Mediator, Barbara Bowers, Sarah L. Esmond, Sally Norton, & Elizabeth Holloway
Resident Satisfaction with Independent Living Facilities in Continuing Care Retirement Communities, Farida K. Ejaz, Dorothy Schur, & Kathleen Fox

Part III: Policy Issues and Moral & Legal Challenges

Common or Uncommon Agendas: Consumer Direction in the Aging and Disability Movements, Robyn I. Stone
Scrutinizing Familial Care in Consumer-Directed Long-Term Care Programs: Implications for Theory and Research, Chris Wellin
Gifts or Poison? The Cultural Context of Using Public Funds to Pay Family Caregivers, Lisa Groger
Response to Quality: Differing Definitions, Elias S. Cohen
When Consumer Direction Fails: Assigning Legal and Ethical Responsibility in Worst Case Situations, Marshall B. Kapp

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Author Biographies

Suzanne R. Kunkel, PhD, is the director of Scripps Gerontology Center and professor in the Department of Sociology and Gerontology at Miami University.

Valerie Wellin, BA, is a senior research assistant at Scripps Gerontology Center at Miami University.

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