Case Management: Special Populations

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Abstract

Case management profession and practices are both comparable and diverse. Case managers follow a holistic view, client-centered approach, and ethical standards when serving the special needs population. Case managers commonly address their basic concerns, practice similar guidelines, and follow principles that empower the clients in several populations and ensure that services rendered are adequate to the client's needs. However case managers also are understanding and respectful of the multi-faceted populations and their unique challenges. Each client's situation that is guided by a case management professional is personalized through advocacy, awareness, and open-mindedness.

Introduction

Case Management practice covers many different areas of special populations when helping others with problems they may have. The areas covered are the elderly, very young, physically disabled, and the mentally challenged. Each population is very different but yet they have variables that are similar. Team C has researched and found many similarities and differences within the practice of case management in each population.

We will discuss similarities in financial problems as well as the practice and guidelines used for each population. The differences we will discuss include the diversity across the populations.

Similarities

Case managers serving various populations are unified by their commitment to empowering their clients. While individuals of the special population vary in degree of lifestyle, situation, and needs, the concerns, principles, and guidelines of case management among these populations are comparable. Without advocacy and the correlation of services, case management's role in the special population would be inconceivable.

Concerns

Effective and inexpensive health care as well as financial support for the vulnerable populations is a common issue for case management. According to Brown & Phillips (1986), "The National Long Term Care Demonstration was developed in response to rapidly increasing private and public expenditures for care of the elderly. The Channeling demonstration, as...