Long-Term Care for Frail Older People: Reaching for the Ideal System

Front Matter....Pages I-XVIII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction and Summary....Pages 3-8
Commentary: Will We Have the Wisdom to Learn?....Pages 9-12
From the Perspective of the Older Person....Pages 13-17
Improving the Quality and Expanding the Quantity of Long-Term Care Staff....Pages 19-21
Social Aspects of Care and How They Relate with the Medical....Pages 23-26
Women’s Roles as Caregivers: Family, Worker, Volunteer....Pages 27-34
Role of the Family in Long-Term Care....Pages 35-48
The Relationship Between Informal and Formal Care....Pages 49-58
Front Matter....Pages 59-59
Introduction and Summary....Pages 61-63
Commentary: Preparing Health and Social Clinicians for Holistic Care....Pages 65-72
Maintaining Physical Functioning of Frail Older People....Pages 73-75
Physicians’ Roles in the Geriatrics Interdisciplinary Team....Pages 77-81
The Role of Nurses in Long-Term Care for the Elderly....Pages 83-86
Issues Physicians Must Face Under Long-Term Care Insurance....Pages 87-90
Interface of Acute and Long-Term Care: Clinical Perspective....Pages 91-97
Training of Physicians for Long-Term Care....Pages 99-102
Long-Term Care:The Need for Special Medical Supervision and Collaboration Between Health and Social Services....Pages 103-110
Long-Term Care and Dementia....Pages 111-122
Front Matter....Pages 123-123
Introduction and Summary....Pages 125-130
Commentary: Macroeconomic and Macropolitical Setting....Pages 131-134
Front Matter....Pages 123-123
Financing the Ideal Long-Term Care System Through Social Insurance....Pages 135-138
Learning from Other Countries’ Experiences in Designing the Ideal Long-Term Care System....Pages 139-142
Long-Term Care Within National Social Policy....Pages 143-148
Financing Long-Term Care: What We Can Learn from the German Experience....Pages 149-152
Long-Term Care and the Labor Market....Pages 153-156
How the System Can Be Sustained Politically....Pages 157-159
Market Elements in Financing and Delivering Long-Term Care....Pages 161-168
Front Matter....Pages 169-169
Introduction and Summary....Pages 171-176
Commentary: Cross-Cutting Themes in the Provision of LTC....Pages 177-180
Effective Care Management....Pages 181-188
Japan’s Long-Term Care Insurance System: The Likely Impact on Service Suppliers and Their Staffs....Pages 189-193
Models of Long-Term Care That Work....Pages 195-199
The Development of Strategies for the Demented Elderly in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area....Pages 201-205
Achieving Quality in Institutional and Home-Based Long-Term Care....Pages 207-210
The Role of Housing in Long-Term Care for Old People....Pages 211-213
Balancing Institutional and Home and Community-Based Care....Pages 215-223
Letter From Tokyo Public Long-Term Care Insurance in Japan....Pages 225-235
Back Matter....Pages 237-247