Jessica Colburn, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology
5200 Eastern Avenue, Suite 2200
Baltimore, MD 21224

Bruce Leff, MD
Professor of Medicine
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology
5200 Eastern Avenue, Suite 7000
Baltimore, MD 21224

Jennifer Hayashi, MD
Medical Director, MedStar House Call Program
5601 Loch Raven Boulevard
Smyth Building, Suite 201
Baltimore, MD 21239

Mattan Schuchman, MD
Medical Director, Johns Hopkins Home-Based Medicine
5200 Eastern Avenue, Suite 2200
Baltimore, MD 21224

Dr. Bruce Leff is a professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He holds a joint appointment in the department of health policy and management in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Dr. Leff is an internationally recognized leader and researcher in the development, evaluation and dissemination of novel models of care for older adults, including the Hospital at Home, Guided Care, geriatric service line models and medical house call practices. In addition, his research interests extend to issues related to multi-morbidity, performance measurement and case-mix issues. He has a strong interest in health policy issues, is a Health and Aging Policy Fellow of the American Political Science Association, and has served on multiple technical expert panels for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. In 2016, he published Geriatric Home Based Medical Care with Springer Science+Business Media, which remains the only authoritative texts on the subject.

Follows a consistent format for practical use

Each chapter focuses on medication management and clinical pearls and pitfalls for the non-geriatrician and geriatrician alike

Written by interdisciplinary experts in geriatric home-based care

1. Involuntary Weight Loss.- 2. Assessing Decision-Making Capacity.- 3. Acute Illness at Home.- 4. Dementia Behavior Management.- 5. Bacteriuria in a Patient with Incident Delirium.- 6. Caregiver Burden.- 7. Elder Abuse and Neglect.- 8. Management of Frequent Falls.- 9. Home Assessments: Improving Patients' Capacity for Self-Management.- 10. Transitioning to Long-Term Care.- 11. Pressure Injuries.- 12. Opioid Management.- 13. Social Isolation.- 14. Serious Mental Illness.- 15. Functional Rehabilitation and Realistic Goals.- 16. Polypharmacy.- 17. Telephone Medicine.- 18. Morbid Obesity.- 19. Urinary Catheter Management at Home.- 20. End of Life Care.