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Social work in geriatric home health care — the blending of traditional practice with cooperative strategies
Author(s)	Lucille Rosengarten
Publisher	Haworth Press, Binghamton, NY, 2000
Pages	124 pp (Haworth social work in health care)
Source	The Haworth Press, Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580, USA.
Keywords	Domiciliary services ; Home nursing ; Advisory services [elderly] ; Informal care ; United States of America ; Italy.
Annotation	Social work skills - individual and family focused - are demonstrated. The author describes how, as a professional social worker, she has drawn on traditional social work values, knowledge and skills to create a new model of home health care for sick and frail older people in New York. The establishment of Concerned Home Managers for the Elderly (COHME) as a non-profit, licensed home health care agency, was based on her observations of a home health care system in Bologna, Italy. Of primary concern to COHME are quality of training, ongoing education, and daily work life of COHME aides, as well as how long-term care is provided for clients. The book explores areas of case management: there is an emphasis on a high level of interaction between all staff to share their expertise. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-000523001 B
Classmark	N: N4: IT: P6: 7T: 76V
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