Settings, Committee on the Quality of Long-Term Care Services in Home and Community-Based.
Best at Home : Assuring Quality Long-Term Care in Home and Community-Based Settings.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (83 pages)
Best at Home: Assuring Quality Long-Term Care in Home and Community-Based Settings -- Copyright -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Summary -- ORIGINS OF THIS PLANNING ACTIVITY -- OVERVIEW OF HOME AND COMMUNITY-BASED LONG-TERM CARE -- CURRENT QUALITY ASSURANCE AND IMPROVEMENT STRATEGIES -- FUTURE STUDY PLAN -- 1 Introduction and Background -- INTRODUCTION -- ORIGINS OF THIS PLANNING ACTIVITY -- STUDY APPROACH -- DEFINITIONS AND CONCEPTS USED IN THIS REPORT -- Long-Term Care -- Disability -- Home Care -- Residential Care Settings -- Home and Community-Based Care -- Quality of Care -- ORGANIZATION OF THIS REPORT -- 2 Long-Term Care in Home and Community-Based Settings -- OVERVIEW -- People Who Use Home and Community-Based Long-Term Care -- Home Care -- Residential Care -- Payers for Home and Community-Based Long-Term Care -- Providers of Home and Community-Based Long-Term Care -- Home Care -- Residential Care -- TRENDS IN HOME AND COMMUNITY-BASED CARE -- Shifts in Attitudes About the Provision of Care -- Growing Population of Consumers -- Changes in the Supply and Roles of Informal Caregivers -- Heightened Concerns About Cost, Access, and Availability of Services -- Increase in Service Delivery Experimentation -- Growing Concerns About Quality -- SUMMARY -- 3 Current Quality Assurance and Improvement Strategies -- QUALITY MEASURES -- TYPES OF QUALITY ASSURANCE AND IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMS -- External Quality Assurance Programs -- Federal and State Regulation -- Voluntary Accreditation -- Other Quality-Related Mechanisms -- Internal Quality Assurance Programs -- ASSESSMENT OF QUALITY ASSURANCE AND IMPROVEMENT STRATEGIES -- Are Quality Assurance and Improvement Strategies Appropriate? -- Are Quality Assurance and Improvement Strategies Effective? -- Are Quality Assurance and Improvement Strategies Adequate? -- Concluding Thoughts -- SUMMARY. 4 Future Study Plan -- STUDY CONCEPT AND KEY QUESTIONS -- Key Study Questions -- STUDY ACTIVITIES -- Study Committee -- Data Collection -- Development of Recommendations and Products -- CONCLUSION -- 5 Conclusions -- References -- APPENDIX A Legislative Mandate for IOM Studies -- TITLE II-ADMINISTRATION -- APPENDIX B Committee Biographies -- APPENDIX C Workshop Agenda and Participants -- AGENDA -- PARTICIPANTS.
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Long-term care of the sick -- United States. Home care services -- United States. Community health services -- United States.