Generations articles from January 1989

Generations archives from January 1989

What's all this about quality? (health services quality assurance)
January 1, 1989... What's All This About Quality? There has been so much discussion about quality care and quality assurance recently that I expect, at any moment, to hear the Gilda Radner character from the early "Saturday Night Live" television show ask...

The search for quality: health and human services in historical perspective.
January 1, 1989... The Search for Quality Health and human services in historical perspective. Concerns about quality in health and human services are by no means a recent phenomenon. Tracing the quality-of-care movement through history reveals a wide...

Homecare quality: putting public accountability to the test.
January 1, 1989... Homecare Quality Putting public accountability to the test Combining the aim of quality assurance in homecare with the machinations of public regulation can be a frightening prospect for everyone involved. Care providers...

Quality of nursing home care.
January 1, 1989... Quality of Nursing Home Care PROBLEMS A large portion of patients presently in nursing homes will be there the rest of their lives. For such residents, the social supports they have in the facility, the assistance provided in...

Assuring the quality of hospital and physician care.
January 1, 1989... Assuring the Quality of Hospital & Physician Care Consumers and buyers are not only demanding high quality, they are requesting comparative information on providers. For at least the past decade, an emphasis on cost containment has...

A new challenge: assuring the quality of social services.
January 1, 1989... A NEW CHALLENGE ASSURING THE QUALITY OF SOCIAL SERVICES As service providers know perhaps too well, profound shifts are currently taking place in the locus of care for the elderly. As a result of concerns over the high costs of...

The consumer's role: assuring quality of care in nursing homes.
January 1, 1989... The Consumer's Role Periodically, one encounters a heroic nursing home resident. The heroic are those who publish a volume or address a congressional committee. They guide the development of policies and practices and statewide...

The politics of assuring quality of care for elders.
January 1, 1989... THE POLITICS OF ASSURING QUALITY OF CARE FOR ELDERS "Some might prefer...to arrive at [an explanation and definition of quality] circuitously, perhaps by saying that `quality' is whatever the methods of its assessment assess."--Avedis...

Charting a new direction for nursing home regulation. (1986 Institute of Medicine Committee on Nursing Home Regulation report)
January 1, 1989... Charting a New Direction for Nursing Home Regulation The report of the Institute of Medicine Committee on Nursing Home Regulation became the focal point for efforts to change public regulatory programs. The 1986 report of the National...

Legislating quality: the struggle for lawmakers.
January 1, 1989... LEGISLATING QUALITY THE STRUGGLE FOR LAWMAKERS U.S. HEALTHCARE POLICY in the 1980s will be long remembered by two interlocking economic and public-health goals--cost containment and quality assurance. What began as an effort to...

The screening survey: an evaluation of this approach to nursing home quality assurance.
January 1, 1989... The Screening Survey An evaluation of this approach to nursing home quality assurance. The continuing increase in demand and expenditures for nursing home care has focused more concern on the quality of care provided. Central to...

Assuring quality in foster care. (Community Care Program of the Queen's Medical Center; foster families for geriatric patients)
January 1, 1989... ASSURING QUALITY IN FOSTER CARE Expanded use of home- and community-based longterm-care programs has been encouraged in order to delay or prevent more costly institutionalization of the growing numbers of frail older adults (Macken, 1985)....

Outcome scales for measuring the quality of home healthcare. (medication adherence) (Home Care Association of Washington study)
January 1, 1989... Outcome Scales for Measuring the Quality of Home Healthcare Medication adherence provides one example. The purpose of this article is to present the ongoing efforts of the author and the Home Care Association of Washington to develop...

The Joint Commission's Home Care Project; evaluating quality in homecare. (Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations)
January 1, 1989... The Joint Commission's Homecare Project Evaluating quality in homecare Of the estimated 14,000-16,000 homecare provider organizations currently in existence, approximately 5,700 organizations are Medicare certified as home health...

The Ohio Quality Assurance Project: assuring the quality of in-home care.
January 1, 1989... The Ohio Quality Assurance Project Assuring the quality of in-home care. It is difficult enough to assure the quality of care in nursing homes, where the clients and caregivers are concentrated under the supervision of nurses and...

Providing quality care isn't enough anymore: the Hillhaven Corporation's quality assurance plan.
January 1, 1989... PROVIDING QUALITY CARE Isn't Enough Anymore The Hillhaven Corporation's quality assurance plan Where it used to be sufficient for administrators of longterm-care facilities to provide quality service, they now must also prove...

Reflections on quality control.
January 1, 1989... REFLECTIONS ON QUALITY CONTROL INTRODUCTION Quality control, or quality assurance (QA), can serve three important functions in our society. It assures the public that products or services (1) are safe, (2) are as advertised, and (3)...

Caring for the Mentally Impaired Elderly: A Family Guide.
January 1, 1989... Don't Call It `Parenting' Caring for the Mentally Impaired Elderly: A Family Guide Florence Safford If this book does nothing else but put an end to the use of the word "parenting" for the function fulfilled by a spouse or adult...

Measurement of Intergenerational Relations.
January 1, 1989... Measurement of Intergenerational Relations Although interest in intergenerational relationships has grown steadily in recent years, the instruments available to measure such relationships and the methodology to deal with intergenerational...

Legal and Ethical Aspects of Health Care for the Elderly.
January 1, 1989... Legal and Ethical Aspects of Health Care for the Elderly Each of this volume's chapters presents a special perspective on some of the problems the United States faces as it attempts to provide healthcare for its elderly citizens. The book...