Overview
- State-of-the art review of primary care practices in the elderly?
- Provides an evidence-based approach to managing and caring for aging adults
- Written by experts in the field
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Primary Care for Older Adults is a valuable resource for clinicians, researchers, patients, caregivers and their advocates, and policy makers who have an interest in designing, promoting, and implementing high quality primary care for older adults.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Doctor Michael Wasserman presently serves as the Chief Medical Officer for Rockport Healthcare Services. Previously, he served as Executive Director, Care Continuum, for Health Services Advisory Group, the QIN-QIO for California. In 2001 he co-founded Senior Care of Colorado, before selling it to IPC in 2010. He is the author of “The Business of Geriatrics.” He previously was President and Chief Medical Officer for GeriMed of America, a Geriatric Medical Management Company where he helped to develop GeriMed’s Clinical Glidepaths in conjunction with Drs. Flaherty and Morley.
Dr. Wasserman completed an Internal Medicine residency at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and a Geriatric Medicine Fellowship at UCLA. He opened Kaiser-Permanente's first outpatient Geriatric Consult Clinic. Dr. Wasserman was a co-founder and owner of Common Sense Medical Management (CSM2), a case management company that helped manage high risk beneficiaries of Cover Colorado. He was formerly a Public Commissioner for the Continuing Care Accreditation Commission. Dr. Wasserman serves on the board of directors of Wish of a Lifetime Foundation, the American Geriatrics Society’s Health in Aging Foundation, and the California Association of Long Term Care Medicine.
Dr. Riopelle began his career as an emergency physician and was the first full time medical director for Qual-Med. Through the years he became involved in the delivery of care to seniors from the primary care perspective during his years as the founder and CEO of GeriMed of America. He then furthered his interest and passion for senior care becoming involved in population health management in the full risk medicare environment. He currently provides consulting services focusing on population health and physician transformation. He previously served as Chairman of the Forum on Entrepreneurship of the American College of Physician Executives.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Primary Care for Older Adults
Book Subtitle: Models and Challenges
Editors: Michael Wasserman, James Riopelle
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61329-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-61327-7Published: 11 October 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-61329-1Published: 03 October 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 228
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 16 illustrations in colour
Topics: Geriatrics/Gerontology, Primary Care Medicine, General Practice / Family Medicine, Intensive / Critical Care Medicine, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention