The Residential Care Handbook is a manual which provides practical, hands-on information to operators and staffs of residential care facilities for the elderly and mentally ill. It can be used a s training manual or as a reference book in residential and nursing facilities.

The second edition of this popular handbook provides updated information on labor laws, building and fire codes, and medication. Schwartz also pays particular attention to the newly enacted managed care policies and issues of 1997 anticipating growth in the residential care industry.