Main description:

This open access book outlines the challenges of supporting the health and wellbeing of older adults around the world and offers examples of solutions designed by stakeholders, healthcare providers, and public, private and nonprofit organizations in the United States. The solutions presented address challenges including: providing person-centered long-term care, making palliative care accessible in all healthcare settings and the home, enabling aging-in-place, financing long-term care, improving care coordination and access to care, delivering hospital-level and emergency care in the home and retirement community settings, merging health and social care, supporting people living with dementia and their caregivers, creating communities and employment opportunities that are accessible and welcoming to those of all ages and abilities, and combating the stigma of aging. The innovative programs of support and care in Aging Well serve as models of excellence that, when put into action, move health spending toward a sustainable path and greatly contribute to the well-being of older adults.

Contents:

1. Demographics2. Healthcare in the United States3. Long -Term Care Financing4. Person Centered Long-Term Care5. Home-Based Palliative Care and Aging in Place and Community6. Coordinated Primary Care7. Emergency Medicine and Hospital Care in the Home and Community8. Support for Those Living with Dementia and Their Caregivers9. Merging Health and Social Services10. Purpose and Social Inclusion11. Eight Lessons for Social Inclusion and High-Quality Sustainable Elder Care