Homeless Older Populations: A Practical Guide for the Interdisciplinary Care Team

Filled with key insights and field-tested knowledge, this is a concise, hands-on guide to how interdisciplinary team strategies can advance the care of older homeless adults. The book encompasses research evidence, education-based initiatives, and systems thinking, and describes how to implement promising health care outlooks for diverse elderly populations in a variety of localities.

Chapters address the many challenges to caring for homeless individuals by integrating a team vision for adopting transformation and geriatrics health care workforce education. The book provides an overview of population demographics and trends and discusses specific medical/psychological care challenges including the spread of infectious diseases. It covers the delivery of care to homeless patients, complex ethical and legal issues, housing, social economics, family disruption and abuse, end-of-life considerations, and political and policy challenges. With abundant case studies and discussions about successes and failures in homeless geriatric health care, the book provides a framework for the joint efforts of social worker, nurse, mental health professional, physician, and other health care professionals to provide optimal care for older homeless populations.

KEY FEATURES:

• Presents the most current resources, evidence, and developments for interdisciplinary care of older homeless populations
• Written by an interprofessional health care workforce with abundant clinical and academic experience in the field
• Focuses on implementing, developing, and adopting health care strategies to provide for care of the frail homeless elderly
• Includes case studies and discussions of successes and failures
• Addresses challenges, barriers, resolutions, and opportunities for homeless geriatric care


Author: Diane Chau
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
Published: 03/20/2018
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.93lbs
Size: 9.05h x 6.38w x 0.64d
ISBN: 9780826170156


About the Author
Chau, Diane: -

Diane Chau, MD, is the PI of a $2.5m grant through the US Department of Health & Human Services to change clinical training environments for health care professionals from all disciplines through telehealth and technology to create a better skilled health care workforce. She is Associate Professor (past Program Director of Geriatric Medicine training program) at UC San Diego. A US News & World Report Top Physician, she completed her geriatric fellowship at UC San Diego School of Medicine in 2002 with a focus on education/curriculum design. During her career she has won over $5.5 million in peer-reviewed grant funding involving simulation training. She has been a published educator, mentor, educational program developer since 2002 with numerous historic and active grant-funding successes. She has a history of work in the area of simulation team training/telemedicine, dynamic team leadership, the successful completion of previous multimillion dollar projects related to education, and (excluding abstracts) has authored over 20 papers and book chapters in her field. She is also the Medical Director of GeriJoy, a tele-monitoring device company for seniors.