Promotional Information

An extremely important book for our times. Meticulously researched and based on the authors' years of experience in dealing with these issues, this book pushes us to rethink the way health care works for our nation's most vulnerable citizens. -- Lois Quam, Chief Executive Officer, Ovations, a UnitedHealth Group Company This book effectively deals with the misfit between our health care system and an aging America. -- Robert N. Butler, M.D., author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book Why Survive? Being Old in America

Table of Contents

Foreword by Edward Wagner, M.D., M.P.H.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. Caring For People With Chronic Illness
1. What's So special about Chronic Illness Care?
2. The Minensions of Chrpnic Illness
3. How the Current System Fails People with Chronic Illness
Part II. Opportunities for Changes
4. Reorganizing care in the Face of Chronic illness
5. The Right Health Care Workers with the Right Skills
6. Patients and Families
7. Innovative Technology
8. Prevention
9. Paying for Chronic Care
Part III. Prospects for Change
10. The Context for Reform
11. Next Steps
Appendix A.
Appendix B.
Notes
References
Index

About the Author

Robert L. Kane, M.D., is a professor and the Minnesota Chair in Long-Term Care and Aging at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. Reinhard Priester, J.D., is a coordinator in the Division of Health Services Research and Policy of the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. Annette M. Totten, Ph.D. is director of the Center for the Study of Aging at Boise State University.

Reviews

Provides interested readers with a succinct vehicle for becoming conversant on this important topic. -- Jennifer L. Wolff JAMA This book provides a much needed assessment of the greatest challenges in health care today. -- Germaine Cornelissen Key Reporter This book is useful for policy makers, health care providers, and educators to address one of the greatest challenges facing the health care system today. Caregiver Most appealing to thoughtful academics. -- Amasa B. Ford Gerontologist