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Case manager-defined roles in the Medicare Alzheimer's disease demonstration
— relationship to client and caregiver outcomes | | Author(s) | Pamela Arnsberger, Patrick Fox, Xiulan Zhang |
| Journal title | Care Management Journals, vol 1, no 1, Winter 1999 |
| Pages | pp 29-37 |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Case work ; Management [care] ; Informal care ; Social surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Different approaches to case management within the Medicare Alzheimer's Disease Demonstration are explored. Eight sites were selected to participate in a survey of 57 case managers which evaluated their professional background and experience, and how certain tasks, functions and goals of case management were prioritised at each site. Client and caregiver outcomes were collected on a site-by-site basis as part of the demonstration. The hypothesis was that the way in which case managers performed their work would vary by site; and that such differences would be measurable and correlated with project outcomes. Case managers differed significantly by site in how they prioritised tasks, functions, and goals, viewing themselves along a continuum from a clinical approach to one that emphasises service management. These differences in case management style are reflected in between-site differences in certain client and caregiver outcomes but not others. Specifically, variations in case management style are not related to client cognitive or functional status, but to other outcomes including behavioural management, caregiver burden, and service use. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990826297 A |
| Classmark | EA: IGA: QA: P6: 3F: 7T |
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