Long Term Care: Managing Across the Continuum

Even as you read this, the field of long-term care is undergoing a rap id redefinition of both its institutional and community-based provider s. Public policy makers are working to add much-needed alternative mod es of delivery to traditional long-term institutional care. New rules, new levels, and new kinds of care are constantly being created. As a result, tomorrow's long-term care administrators will have to be flexi ble enough to adapt to different management settings, and to oversee a n ever-expanding variety of services. They will need the skills essent ial to managing larger organizations, likely to include multiple aspec ts of long-term care. Long-Term Care: Managing Across the Continuum pr ovides a solid, realistic foundation on which to build your expertise. You will understand the differences and similarities among the many l ong-term care services... how the various segments of long-term care f it together to form an overall system ...and the skills you will need to succeed in that system in the future.