Transformation: A Family's Guide to Chronic Care, Guided Care, and Hope

by Tom Grundner

There's bad news... And there's good news... The bad news is that our nation is in serious trouble when it comes to providing health care to our seniors. * Over 77 million people from the post-war baby boom are headed into their retirement years. Along with that, comes declining health and often multiple chronic illnesses. * There are not nearly enough geriatric and primary care specialists to deal with this population. Making matters worse-it's too late to train more. * This population not only threatens to overwhelm our health care facilities, the current methods of treating people with multiple chronic conditions is heartlessly inefficient, and the cost is astronomical. The good news is that maybe there's a way out of this impending disaster. If we can't create enough properly trained specialists to meet the need, maybe we can magnify the impact of the ones we have. * Maybe we can devise a new model for treating people with multiple chronic conditions. * Maybe we can create a new breed of specially trained, lower cost, medical professionals to magnify the physician's impact. * Maybe we can find a way to increase the quality of care these seniors receive and, at the same time, reduce costs to the health care system. It not only can be done-it has been done. It's called Guided Care; and it might literally transform the way health care is delivered to our senior citizens. This isn't your standard "patient education" book. It's a story of discovery-and a story of hope.

64 pages, Paperback

First published March 4, 2010

About the author

Dr. Tom Grundner (1945-2011) received his undergraduate degree in Psychology from Eastern Michigan University; a masters degree in Human Learning from the Institute for Behavioral Research in Silver Spring, Maryland; a second masters in Education from the University of Southern California; and a doctorate in Educational Philosophy and psychology, also from USC.
The majority of his working life was spent as a college professor until in 1991 he left to run a nonprofit organization. After that he became a full time custom golf clubmaker which led him to write a series of golf equipment books with noted golf club designer, Tom Wishon. As a result of the success of these books he was able to become one the original investors in Fireship Press where he served as the “Senior Editor”.