“Blueprint for Change: Achieving Integrated Health Care for an Aging Population” outlines the challenges and benefits of building interdisciplinary teams to address the specific health care needs of older people, particularly as the Baby Boom generation ages. The report is the product of a task force launched by Sharon Stephens Brehm, PhD, APA's 2007 president and a professor of psychology at Indiana University.
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Thursday, July 10, 2008
Blueprint for Change: Achieving Integrated Health Care for an Aging Population
Developing a model of integrated health care is essential as the U.S. population ages, and mental health care providers can make unique and critical contributions to this paradigm, according to a task force report issued by the American Psychological Association.
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Pharmacists Should Participate in Care of Patients With Heart Failure
From The Medscape Journal of Medicine The Medscape Medical Minute
George D. Lundberg, MD
Multidisciplinary treatment can be both effective and efficient. Five investigators in Alberta, Canada, reported in the Archives of Internal Medicine in 2008[1] on their systematic review of 10 large databases intended to evaluate any effect of the use of pharmacist care on patient outcomes in heart failure.
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