Overview
- Provides a Health Care Transition planning program focus that can be adopted across diseases, disabilities and settings
- Includes voices of youth and young adults, caregivers, and both pediatric and adult providers, providing a diversity of perspectives and contexts
- Written by experts in the field
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About this book
This comprehensive book thoroughly addresses all aspects of health care transition of adolescents and young adults with chronic illness or disability; and includes the framework, tools and case-based examples needed to develop and evaluate a Health Care Transition (HCT) planning program that can be implemented regardless of a patient’s disease or disability. Health Care Transition: Building a Program for Adolescents and Young Adults with Chronic Illness and Disability is a uniquely inclusive resource, incorporating youth/young adult, caregiver, and pediatric and adult provider voices and perspectives.
Part I of the book opens by defining Health Care Transition, describing the urgent need for comprehensive transition planning, barriers to HCT and then offering a framework for developing and evaluating health care transition programs. Part II focuses on the anatomic and neuro-chemical changes that occur in the brain during adolescence and young adulthood, and how they affect function and behavior. Part III covers the perspectives of important participants in the HCT transition process – youth and young adults, caregivers, and both pediatric and adult providers. Each chapter in Part IV addresses a unique aspect of developing HCT programs. Part V explores various examples of successful transition from the perspective of five key participants in the transition process - patients, caregivers, pediatric providers, adult providers and third party payers. Related financial matters are covered in part VI, while Part VII explores special issues such as HCT and the medical home, international perspectives, and potential legal issues. Models of HCT programs are presented in Part VIII, utilizing an example case study.Representing perspectives from over 75 authors and more than 100 medical centers in North America and Europe, Health Care Transition: Building a Program for Adolescents and Young Adults with Chronic Illness and Disability is an ideal resource for any clinician, policy maker, caregiver, or hospitalist working with youth in transition.
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Table of contents (37 chapters)
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Introduction
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The Adolescent and Young Adult: A Developmental Perspective
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Personal and Professional Perspectives on Healthcare Transition
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Developing a Healthcare Transition Program
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Constance M. Wiemann, PhD
Associate Professor, Director of Research
Section of Adolescent Medicine and Sports Medicine
Department of Pediatrics
Baylor College of Medicine
Texas Children’s Hospital
Houston, Texas
Albert C. Hergenroeder, MD
Professor, Chief of Adolescent Medicine
Section of Adolescent Medicine and Sports Medicine
Department of Pediatrics
Baylor College of Medicine
Texas Children’s Hospital
Houston, Texas
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Health Care Transition
Book Subtitle: Building a Program for Adolescents and Young Adults with Chronic Illness and Disability
Editors: Albert C. Hergenroeder, Constance M. Wiemann
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72868-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-72867-4Published: 15 May 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-10281-4Published: 26 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-72868-1Published: 03 May 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 394
Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations, 21 illustrations in colour
Topics: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Health Administration, Internal Medicine, General Practice / Family Medicine, Practice and Hospital Management