Caring for the Elderly: Reshaping Health Policy (The Johns Hopkins Series in Contemporary Medicine and Public Health) - Hardcover

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"This book is well done, comprehensive and thought-provoking. The editors have chosen their authors carefully -- persons of expertise with comparable abilities to write well, provide data, and raise important questions... Each section and each chapter within a section can stand alone as a source of information and questions about policy options... An excellent resource for all health care professionals (medical and social) and for gerontologists, geriatricians, and educators." -- New England Journal of Medicine

"The editors present us with an educational collection of thirty essays examining a wide range of issues facing the health care system in which elderly are cared for today. Each essay is authored by a professional in the field and may be read individually or as a significant piece of the total work to increase our awareness and understanding of caring for the elderly... Caring for the Elderly will have universal appeal to a varied audience. The seasoned health care veteran will find it both stimulating and refreshing and may wish to focus on specific sections or essays which is a unique quality of the text. Newcomers to the field will find the text a very informative source for background information on the elderly population, the problems they face in the current health care systems and proposed solutions to improve that system for the future." -- Spring

"Logical and simplified analysis of setting the stage, paying for services, locating sources of care, and the ethical and political dimensions of unique problems of the elderly lead the reader to consider what may require reform, what is likely to be corrupted by hypocrisy among social planners, and how to select possible changes productively." -- Geriatric Medicine Today