Advanced Search

Journal Navigation

Journal Home

Subscriptions

Archive

Contact Us

Table of Contents

Submit your manuscript now - click here

Click here to sign up for SAGE Journal Email Alerts today!

Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.
Journal of Aging and Health
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow References
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Right arrow Citation Map
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Saved Citations
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Request Reprints
Right arrow Add to My Marked Citations
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via HighWire
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Right arrow Citing Articles via Scopus
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Kodner, D. L.
Right arrow Articles by Kyriacou, C. K.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Kodner, D. L.
Right arrow Articles by Kyriacou, C. K.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Complore   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati   Add to Twitter  
What's this?

Bringing Managed Care Home to People With Chronic, Disabling Conditions

Prospects and Challenges for Policy, Practice, and Research

Dennis L. Kodner, PhD

DLK Care Strategies, Atlantic Highlands, NJ and New York University

Corinne Kay Kyriacou, PhD

Metropolitan Jewish Health System, Brooklyn, NY

This article examines the challenges and opportunities inherent in the idea that home care organizations may be able to reinvent themselves into managed care systems for the frail elderly and chronically ill. Data come from three sources: (a) existing literature, (b) a survey with experts, and (c) insights from an organization with direct experience in designing and implementing first- and second-generation managed care programs. The authors conclude that although even the best-positioned home care organizations will face significant challenges in transitioning to managed care systems (e.g., establishing medical linkages, building managed care capacity, securing funding, dealing with regulatory hurdles), changes in the environment may enable these challenges to be overcome. Home care organizations are beginning to use innovative techniques to manage care, and those with a strong commitment to the chronically ill may be interested and capable of pursuing the option of becoming home-based managed chronic care programs.

Key Words: home care • managed care • chronically ill • frail elderly

Journal of Aging and Health, Vol. 15, No. 1, 189-222 (2003)
DOI: 10.1177/0898264302239024
Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati   Add to Twitter Twitter    What's this?


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 J Aging HealthHome page
P. H. Feldman
From Philosophy to Practice: Selected Issues in Financing and Coordinating Long-Term Care
J Aging Health, February 1, 2003; 15(1): 5 - 14.
[PDF]

Home page
 J Aging HealthHome page
M. S. Sparer
Managed Long-Term Care: Limits and Lessons
J Aging Health, February 1, 2003; 15(1): 269 - 291.
[Abstract] [PDF]