The Health Care delivery services for Long-Term Care Vida R. Mobley HCS 310/Health Care Delivery in the U.S. 01-31-2011 Martha Plant “Everyone wants to get older‚ but no one wants to be old” so the saying goes. Many people approaching retirement age look forward to having more time and fewer responsibilities. Yet‚ they are afraid of becoming aimless and useless. They also fear isolation‚ unhappiness and diminishing health. What then‚ is the secret of a happy life? Good friends and a loving
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Long Term Care: Short Term vs Long Term Care There are times in our life when we need help. The same goes for our senior loved ones. Some occasions may simply require support for a short time while during the recovery from an injury or medical procedure‚ but chronic conditions may necessitate care that is much more significant. Since each condition requires care of different lengths‚ care services are divided into long and short-term care. Short-term care refers to services that range from mere
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different models for hospitals‚ long term care‚ and mental health is due to the variation of healthcare needs for individual patients. To my understanding the expectations of consumers‚ providers‚ and payers have also changed dramatically over the years with the anticipation of more effective interventions at more efficient and competitive pricing (Williams & Torrens‚ 2008). The expectations of those who need hospital care are typically different from those in long term care facilities just as the needs
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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 includes nursing home facilities as well as home care agencies and assisted living facilities. Who uses long-term care services? Why do they use them? Mainly the elderly (considered age 65 or older) population uses long-term care services; however‚ there are those who are younger and mainly physically or mentally handicapped. However‚ those who use long-term care services are those who require additional assistance or recovery time. Examples of some situations in which an individual
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Oftentimes‚ the complexity of a patient’s condition may not allow for discharge from an acute care setting to their prior place of residence. Instead‚ the patient may be deemed more suitable for continued care in a long-term acute care facility (LTAC). I had the opportunity to care for a patient who underwent a complex discharge process‚ as he required long-term mechanical ventilation. To fully understand the intricacy of his discharge‚ it is important to recognize pertinent assessment data‚ interdisciplinary
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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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heath care facility there are a lot of things that must be taken into consideration. The first thing to start with is the community. The planner must evaluate the community to find out what type of community the facility is located in and if the facility is serving the needs of the community. This paper will take a look at a community in on the south side of Chicago and the new development of a long-term care facility in the community. It will discuss the community’s need for the long-term care
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benefits and dangers. Warren Buffet states‚ that ‘Growth benefits investors only when the business in point can invest at incremental returns that are enticing – in other words‚ only when each dollar used to finance the growth creates over a dollar of long term market value.’ We can say that it worked for Starbucks in the beginning‚ when growth also meant growth of the share price‚ and even though no dividends were paid‚ the company was still profitable over the years‚ but with the emerging of new competition
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Effects of Fatigue on Staff and Quality/Safe Care in Long-Term Care Facilities Fatigue prevention seems like such a central issue in our intricate medical environment. However‚ as we provide more multifaceted care‚ we have not kept up with caring for those giving the care. The consequences of fatigue at this long-term care facility show that patients are not receiving adequate care‚ more errors are made‚ and patient safety is being jeopardized due to inadequate staffing caused by fatigue and lack
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