Includes bibliographical references and index

Overview and history of geriatric care management -- Ethics and geriatric care management -- Psychosocial assessment in geriatric care management -- Functional assessment -- Care planning and geriatric assessment -- Ethnic and cultural considerations in GCM -- Moving an elder or late life relocation : the role of the GCM -- Spirituality -- Assessing and supporting the family caregiver -- Supporting clients' quality of life : drawing on community, informal netowrks and care manager creativity -- Technologies that support aging in place -- Serving the older veteran : understanding the issues and taking advantage of -- Available resources -- How to start or add a geriatric care management business -- After the start-up : growing a care management business -- Fee-for-service care management in not-for-profit settings -- Combining a PDHC agency and a GCM practice -- Marketing aging life care management -- Private revenue sources for the fee based geriatric care -- Care management credentialing -- Preparing for emergencies -- Depression and the older adult -- Geriatric care management : working with nearly normal aging families -- Difficult families : conflict, dependence, and mutuality -- Mediation and geriatric care management