Book Review:
Health Care Without Medicare, by Joseph A. Jackson

In Health Care Without Medicare: A New Practice Manual for Community-Based Care Management, Joseph A. Jackson describes the essential knowledge and skills of Community LifeCare Planning (CLCP).The care-management skills and knowledge you need to help your clients achieve their most often-stated goals - to stay well and independent, and to preserve their savings.

Jackson's CLCP model offers a new method of practice for community-based care planning and care management for frail-elderly, disabled, and chronically-ill individuals. A student of the health care and long-term care systems, Jackson combines the viewpoints of all the members in the lifecare team - including health care, finance, estate planning, and counseling professionals - to teach a new approach to caring for consumers of the greatest portion of high-tech, institution-based health care.

Spelled out in this book, his unique approach holds great promise for the future of long-term care and health care for everyone - patients, their families and professional caregivers and advisors alike - all working together to manage our growing caregiving crisis.

It offers a model that empowers social workers, nurses, long-term care practitioners, caregivers and patients to manage chronic illness and disability and to prevent illness exacerbation and injury outside the boundaries of systems-based health care. The author presents a community-based care management approach, “Community LifeCare Planning (CLCP),” which focuses on helping frail elders, the chronically ill, and the physically disabled to live in the least restrictive community setting of their choice through the strategic use of personal, family, and community resources.

Praise for Health Care Without Medicare ...

"This book is an enormously useful resource for health care professionals dedicated to helping the frail elderly, the chronically ill, and the physically disabled to remain in the community. Through their formulation of Community LifeCare Planning, Jackson and his associates present both an optimistic vision of community care and richly detailed guidelines for achieving it."

William J. Reid, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor School of Social Welfare
State University of New York at Albany

"Health Care Without Medicare truly operationalizes the 'continuum' we all talk about but are not always sure how to handle. Our stewardship of those most in need of long-term care - our elders and those with chronic health problems - is made possible by an all-star group of contributors."

Karen Zander, RN, MS, CMAC, FAAN, Principal,
The Center for Case Management
South Natick, MA

"A should-read for every serious student of our health care system and where we are going in the next 10-20 years."

Marcie Parker, PhD, CFLE

"This outstanding guide offers unique training and will ensure the highest quality service by professionals who play a key role in serving the elderly."

Peter J. Strauss, Esq.
Author, "The Elder Law Handbook"

"Indispensable advice …a clear path through the maze of medical, legal, and financial challenges of aging."

Donald J. Parker, VP of Business Development
AtlaniCare Health Systems

Health Care Without Medicare: A New Practice Manual for Community-Based Care Management by Joseph A. Jackson, LICSW, CCM

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