New LTC Resources

April 2002

Informative websites
Title: Total Living Choices
Audience: Consumers
Description: An online senior living and information referral service for seniors and their families who need to make a change in the senior’s living situation. Total Living Choices provides the information and resources needed to match the senior’s needs with the best available senior living options.

Books
Title: Briefings on Long-Term Care Regulations
Audience: Health Professionals and Consumers
Description: Briefings on Long-Term Care Regulations reports on the ever-evolving world of long-term care and helps readers not only to cope with, but thrive in an industry undergoing constant change and overburdened by regulations. And with long-term care becoming more complex, Briefings on Long-Term Care Regulations is an administrator´s strategic partner and the best tool for keeping facilities one step ahead.
Contact: Health Care Market Place
HCPro
200 Hoods Lane
Marblehead, MA 01945 USA
Phone: 800-650-6787
Fax: 800-639-8511
E-mail: webmaster@hcmarketplace.com
Cost: $197.10

Title: Quality Indicators: A Practical Guide to Assessment and Documentation
Audience: Health Professionals
Description: For the first time ever, state surveyors will use quality indicators to target problem areas within your facility. With these new indicators, surveyors will have a picture of your facility before they even walk through the doors. This user-friendly guidebook provides both an overall picture of how the quality indicators and MDS documentation affect your facility´s survey, reimbursement, and patient care, and specific information that you can use to make critical improvements.
Contact: Health Care Market Place
HCPro
200 Hoods Lane
Marblehead, MA 01945 USA
Phone: 800-650-6787
Fax: 800-639-8511
E-mail: webmaster@hcmarketplace.com
Cost: $89.10

Videos
Title: Nutrition Screening: Identifying the Hidden Signs of Nutritional Risks
Audience: Health Professionals
Description: This video training program provides the latest on Nutrition screening, malnutrition types, causes, and symptoms, fundamental components of a nutritional assessment and screening and more.
Contact: Health Care Market Place
HCPro
200 Hoods Lane
Marblehead, MA 01945 USA
Phone: 800-650-6787
Fax: 800-639-8511
E-mail: webmaster@hcmarketplace.com
Cost: $315.00

Title: Prevention, Assessment, and Treatment of Pressure Ulcers in Long Term Care
Audience: Health Professionals
Description: This video training program provides the latest on information on pressure ulcers from the Agency for Healthcare Policy and Research (AHCPR) Clinical Practice Guideline, improved treatment options for pressure ulcers and steps to prevent recurrence.
Contact: Health Care Market Place
HCPro
200 Hoods Lane
Marblehead, MA 01945 USA
Phone: 800-650-6787
Fax: 800-639-8511
E-mail: webmaster@hcmarketplace.com
Cost: $199.00

Title: Cultural Diversity in Health Care: A Different Point of View
Audience: Health Professionals
Description: Using real-life scenarios, this video training program demonstrates six cultural phenomena that affect staff interactions and patient care: communication, time orientation, spatial issues, social organization, environmental controls and biological variations.
Contact: Health Care Market Place
HCPro
200 Hoods Lane
Marblehead, MA 01945 USA
Phone: 800/650-6787
Fax: 800/639-8511
E-mail: webmaster@hcmarketplace.com
Cost: $295.00

March 2002

Books/Manuals

Clinical Applications
Title: The Role of Nutrition In Wound Healing. Kathleen Niedert, MBA, RD, LD, FADA Mary Ellen Posthauer, RD, CD (2001)
ISBN#:5019
Audience: Dietitians and Health Professionals
Description: This study guide discusses the risk factors for development of pressure ulcers including nutrition interventions. Other skin conditions frequently seen in the elderly such as arterial ulcers, diabetic ulcers etc. are defined. The PUSH Tool: Pressure Ulcer Scale for Healing developed by the National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel is included. Several case studies are included.
Contact: Consultant Dietitians in Health Care Facilities
P2219 Cardinal Drive Waterloo, IA 50701
Phone: 319-235-0991
Fax: 319-235-7224
Email: cdhcf@cdhcf.org
Cost: $15.00

Management Applications
Title: Resource Manual for JCAHO Compliance in LTC Dietary Operations (1999)
ISBN#:5013
Audience: Dietitians and Diet Technicians
Description: Helps in preparation for your next JCAHO Survey. It is a pocket size guide to JCAHO compliance. Developed by CD-HCF and DMA.
Contact: Consultant Dietitians in Health Care Facilities
P2219 Cardinal Drive Waterloo, IA 50701
Phone: 319-235-0991
Fax: 319-235-7224
Email: cdhcf@cdhcf.org
Cost: $15.00

Resident Dining Applications
Title: Menu Solutions: Quantity Recipes for Regular and Special Diets. Sandra J. Frank, Robert E. Baker (1996)
ISBN#:0-471-55458-8
Audience: Dietitians and Diet Technicians
Description: A combination reference and quantity recipe book, this unique resource is designed to help foodservice professionals prepare appealing and nutritious quantity menus. Menu Solutions offers over 400 tested recipes, in quantities of 4 or 50, with complete nutritional analyses and instructions for regular and special diets, including sodium-restricted, consistency- and texture-modified, fat- and cholesterol-modified, diabetic, calorie-controlled, vegetarian, and kosher.
Contact: Wiley Publishers
Phone: 732-469-4400 or 800-225-5945
Fax: 732-302-2300
Cost: $99.00

Videos
Title: Dining Skills: Restoring Pleasure to Mealtime ... Techniques for helping the older adult - Video (1993)
Audience: Health Professionals
Description: This is an excellent cross-training tool for all health care providers who strive to host independent dining skills.
Contact: Consultant Dietitians in Health Care Facilities
P2219 Cardinal Drive Waterloo, IA 50701
Phone: 319-235-0991
Fax: 319-235-7224
Email: cdhcf@cdhcf.org
Cost: $19.95

Informative Websites
Title: McKight's Long-Term Care News
Audience: Health Professionals
Description: The online home of McKnight's Long-Term Care News, the leading news magazine for those providing quality long-term care throughout the continuum of care, including skilled nursing care, subacute care, assisted living, seniors housing, adult day care and home care.

Title: HC's Pro - Long-Term Care Information Supersite
Audience: Health Professionals
Description: Long-Term Care information site

Title: Dietary Managers Association (DMA)
Audience: Dietary Managers
Description: DMA Online offers networking and services to members, as well as information about publications, a gateway to foodservice and dietary resources, an employment center, and the DMA Food Protection Education Center.

Professional Groups In The Aging Field
Gerontological Nursing Intervention Research Center: <www.nursing.uiowa.edu/gnirc>

February 2002

Books/Manuals

Management Applications
Title: Real World of Food Service Management. William J. Wentz (2003)
ISBN#:0-7668-6243-7
This item will be published on October 1, 2003. You may order it now and it will be shipped to you when it arrives.
Audience: Dietitians and Diet Technicians
Description: From soup to nuts, learn how to manage the various complexities of food service from those with real-world experiences and helpful advice. Emphasis is placed on leadership, communication, and includes topics on building sales, controlling costs, attracting and retaining employees, and using time effectively.
Contact: Delmar Publishers
5 Maxwell Drive, Clifton Park, NY 12065.
Cost: $52.16

Title: Foodservice Policies and Procedures for Residential and Intermediate Care Facilities. Patricia H. Rusch (1997)
ISBN#: 0880911565
Audience: Dietitians and Diet Technicians
Description: Fills the gap between instructions for foodservice at large institutions and in the home, focusing on guidelines for small group living facilities. Presented in a three-ring binder, tabbed sections contain protocols for nutrition care, meal service, menus, purchasing, food preparation, sanitation and infection control, in-service and orientation, safety, emergency and disaster procedures, and continuous quality improvement.
Contact: Amazon.com
Phone: 1-800-282-0693
Cost: $40.00

Clinical Applications
Title: The Interdisciplinarey Team in Long Term Care Continuum:A Collaborative Approach. Joan Wagner, MSN, CRNP Roseanne Hanlon Rafter, MSN, RN, CS Juliana Saveriano, BSN, RNC (1999) ISBN#:0-8261-1322-2
Audience: Health Professionals
Description: This is a complete training package for preparing staff and residents in long-term care facilities to fully participate in interdisciplinary care. It was developed by experts at The Whitman Group's Geriatric Research and Training Center. The package consists of two videos and two training manuals.
Contact: Springer Publishers Company
536 Broadway, New York, NY 10012
Phone: (212) 431-4370
Fax: (212) 941-7842
Toll-Free Ordering: (877) 687-7476
Cost: $199.00

Title: New Ways to Care for Older People. Evan Calkins, MD Chad Boult, MD, MPH Edward H. Wagner, MD, MPH James T. Pacala, MD, MS, Editors (1999)
ISBN#:0-8261-1220-X
Audience: Health Professionals
Description: The editors of this book systematically examine interventions that work and those that are not successful in improving health outcomes among the full range of older people from triathletes to those near the end of life. Focusing primarily on the older person rather than on the facilities, institutions, or professionals providing care, optimal systems of care are presented.
Contact: Springer Publishers Company
536 Broadway, New York, NY 10012
Phone: (212) 431-4370
Fax: (212) 941-7842
Toll-Free Ordering: (877) 687-7476
Cost:$42.95

Title: Geriatric Nutrition and Diet 3E. Marie Jaffe, RN, MS (1998)
ISBN#:1-56930-096-8
Audience: Dietitians
Description: Nutritional problems are discussed within a nursing process format.
Contact: Delmar Publishers
5 Maxwell Drive, Clifton Park, NY 12065.
Cost: $25.16

Title: Nutrition Care in Nursing Facilities/Consultant Dietitians in Health Care Facilities/a Dietetic Practice Group of the American Dietetic Association. Clara L., R.D. Gerwick (1992) ISBN#:0880911050
Audience: Dietitians
Description: Not available
Contact: Amazon.com
Phone: 1-800-282-0693
Cost: Not available