Long-term care services are sought out when an individual requires aid with their daily living activities‚ medical or non-medical‚ due to a chronic illness or disability. In the 19th century‚ it was common for long-term care to be given by family members and friends most often based on a need of feeling it was their duty even when it created privations for the family. After the Great Depression the Social Security Act of 1935‚ in addition to welfare programs‚ we began to see a positive impact helping
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Long Term Care Facility Long term care facility is a place where one can access health‚ supportive services‚ personal care helping them meet the needs of the frail older people or those who have no or limited capacity and ability for self-care. The limited care may have occurred through chronic illness‚ chronic injury‚ cognitive‚ physical or even mental disability or other health-related conditions. The services offered in the long-term care facility can includes the assistance with activities of
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Long Term Care Facility vs. Home Health Care Nursing By: Ronald L. Bowling English 125 J. Shackleford 11/02/2012 Abstract: The decision of whether or not to place an aging parent into a long-term care facility‚ or to try and to keep them in their own home or yours is one that many American families are facing each day. Factors in dealing with this decision are too numerous to count but we will address a few of them in the following paper‚ like the financial aspects‚ psychosocial‚ and meeting
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Eating Fish and Eye Disease Sandra Hall HCS/438 March 21‚ 2011 Curtis Ramsey Eating Fish and Eye Disease The New York Times has reported that eating fish in a regular diet has more benefits. The article explains that the Harvard Women’s Health study says people that eat fish once a week had a 42 percent less likelihood to develop macular degeneration that was age related than people that ate fish less than once a month. Macular degeneration is an inflammatory disease and fish has
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SUMMARY Risk Managements Assessment Summary Health care organizations use risk management methods to guard their assets against likely threats brought on by legal liability. An important component of risk management programs inside the long-term care setting is the ability to reduce the amount of avoidable accidents and injuries and to reduce the financial severity of claims. Long-term care facilities offer a wide array of services to residents‚ and possible injuries is significant to the
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Abuse and neglect in long term care facilities Arminda Carroll RES/110 9/23/2010 University of Phoenix A long term care facility is housing for the elderly and disabled that are not capable of residing in a home of their own. “There are nearly 17‚000 nursing homes in the United States with a total of 1.6 million residents‚ and numbers are expected to quadruple to 6.6 million residents by 2050”(Dehart‚ Webb & Cornman‚ 2009 p.361). Subsequently‚ there is abuse that takes place
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Long-Term Care: The Impact of the Elderly Providing accessible‚ affordable‚ and high-quality long-term care services to an aging population presents a growing challenge to long-term care providers. As the oldest members of the baby boom generation approach retirement‚ federal and state policy‚ makers are exploring policies to care for the increasing number of elderly and to finance expanding long-term care needs. Other concerns include how to provide an adequate mix of institutional care and home
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live at home until the very end. I have worked in many settings for elder care and I believe that home health care is the best option. Having the opportunity to work in home health/hospice as well as long term care‚ choosing home care or hospice as opposed to long term care can be the most appealing option. I believe the quality of life‚ comfort level and costs exceed any care given in a long term care setting. Growing old and receiving care in my home would be my first option. Right now with the
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I have worked in long term care for a number of years. There are specific challenges that Affect long term care differently than other health care delivery modes. Long term care serves a variety of cliental. It has moved away‚ in recent years‚ from the Nursing home stigma. Most long term care facilities‚ now care for much more acutely ill Patients than in the not so distant past. Long term care facilities‚ often called skilled nursing Facilities‚ are now geared towards
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Long Term Care Insurance: what is it? How does it Work? Individual / Group? Policy types and characteristics? ADL triggers? Consumer utilization? Taxation? Answer: Long Term Care Insurance is a kind of insurance product that sold in the USA‚ UK and Canada. The main purpose of it is to help or provide the cost of long–term care that is spent in a predetermined period. This kind of insurance covers generally care not covered by health insurance‚ Medicaid and Medicare. Persons of all age group can
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