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http://agingfamilydial411.blogspot.com/
Cathy Jo Cress's new book Care Managers and the Aging Family, Jones and Bartlett, August 2008
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Cathy Jo Cress is nationally known in the field of aging. . Her new book, Care Managers: Working with the Aging Family (Jones and Bartlett), was published in August 2008. This new exciting text addresses the unmet needs of care managers and aging professionals working with older clients and their families . The gap between medical care managers and geriatric care managers is filled, focusing on navigating the hospital continuum of care and working with physicians . The needs of the entire unit of the aging family from warring midlefe siblings, to entitled families, through death and dying is explored Care managers are given powerful tools to work with aging clients and their families, including family meetings forgiveness, technology and care giver assessment.The new book offers care plans where both needs of the older client and his or her aging family can be met.
Cress is an expert in geriatric care management based on both editions of Handbook of Geriatric Care Management, ( Jones and Bartlett 2001 2007) considered the bible of this field.