BESTSELLER!

Managing Health Services Organizations and Systems
Seventh Edition

By Kurt Darr, J.D., Sc.D., LFACHE, and Michael Nowicki, M.H.A., Ed.D., FACHE, FHFMA

Managing Health Services Organizations and Systems has served the educational and professional needs of the healthcare field over four decades. The seventh edition furthers that legacy in a completely revised and reorganized text that presents a comprehensive range of the knowledge and skills needed to effectively lead and manage health services delivery.

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Aging Forward
A New Path for Health, Technology, and Community

America has an aging challenge. As baby boomers enter advanced age, the shortfalls of our current care delivery systems are increasingly clear. If nothing changes, we are woefully unprepared for a world with more older adults than ever before. Aging Forward confronts this inconvenient reality and provides a life raft—a vision for the future with achievable solutions.

FOR GERONTOLOGICAL SOCIAL WORK!

The Practice of Social Work with Older Adult
Insights and Opportunities for a Growing Profession

By Mary Kaplan, M.S.W., LCSW

With the rapid growth of the aging population, the need for geriatric social workers is at an all-time high. This resource for students and practitioners addresses the critical demand head-on by illuminating the many rewards, challenges, and opportunities for social workers to provide counseling, care management, and support to older adults. Written from a practice perspective by a geriatric social worker with a long and varied career in the field, this text illustrates strategies and interventions that move theory into real-world social work settings.

THE BLUEPRINT FOR SUCCESS!

A Long-Term Care Leader’s Guide to High Performance
Doing Better Together

By Cathie Brady, M.S., David Farrell, M.S.W., LNHA, and Barbara Frank, M.P.A.

This blueprint for success in today’s performance-based healthcare system, this practical resource takes long-term care leaders through the critical steps to achieve staff stability, strengthen coordination of care, and maintain the highest practicable well-being for each resident. It demonstrates how engaging staff in continuous quality improvement produces consistently high-quality care.