title: Managing chronically ill older people in the midst of the health care revolution.
abstract: The health care revolution is challenging nursing to change, as are the rapidly changing population demographics. The aging of America underlines a need for the health care revolution to address continuum-based care requirements, particularly of the chronically ill older population. They and their families are stressed with the current fragmentation of the health care system. Continuum-based care for the chronically ill is critical in altering the trajectory of health care consumption, and case management is central to it. A model of nurse case management is presented as an emerging solution.
authors.affiliation: University of Missouri-Columbia, USA.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Scott
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rantz
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D019090:Case Management / Q000458:organization & administration*; D002908:Chronic Disease / Q000451:nursing*; D003266:Continuity of Patient Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005851:Geriatric Nursing; D018166:Health Care Reform; D006801:Humans; D007587:Job Description; D016294:Models, Nursing; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care