Development Paper 3 Michelle Turner Aspen University Health Care Systems N502 Dawn Deem October 4‚ 2014 Professional Development Paper 3 Given the increasing longevity of Americans and the costs of providing long-term care‚ anticipation of the costs should be a major element of every family’s financial planning. Current information suggests however‚ that very few families or individuals give this consideration. What factors might impede this advance planning? What measures might be effective in raising awareness
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and utilized‚ population ageing entails an increase in the need for Long-Term Care (LTC). LTC is defined as a set of activities and relations at the intersection of state‚ market and family that aims to meet the health and social needs of older persons. There are two main (often parallel) systems of LTC: 1) informal care providers‚ such as unpaid family members and paid home care workers employed by the family and 2) formal care providers‚ such as nursing aides and support workers employed by regulated
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Over a century the long-term care system has gone through five cycles of changes that are woven together. Professors David Smith and Zhanlian Feng describe the changes that have occurred and the challenges long-term care faces in hopes to educate policymakers to learn from the past and not remake the negative effects. Extended over approximately 20 years a piece‚ these five cycles start in 1910 to present day (Smith & Feng‚ 2010‚ p. 28). Access to quality of long-term care has become strained
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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 Options for the Elderly I selected the topic of long-term care options for my research paper‚ because of the importance of allowing the elderly to remain in their residence as long as possible in their final years and what options they have if they choose not to live in their own home. I will look at programs and services that provide long-term care for the elderly. My grandmother‚ 89 years old‚ has recently decided to move into an assisted living facility after living by herself
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well diverse and educated nurses. They may perform an array of duties that a hospital will have 5 or 6 nurses performing. Most of the patients need extensive care with chronic conditions. Nurses perform several duties in the LTC facility such as‚ Liaison between patient and doctor‚ family and any additional care such as rehab or psychiatric care. Although nurses with company longevity and stable family homes are easily retained many others are not. To successfully retain LTC facility nurses‚ organizations
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In this essay it explains how week one reading changes my concept of long term care. The essay will provide two examples of current events related to long-term care and how it has changed. The paper will focus on examples of current events related to long-term care‚ and how might these examples increase awareness. This paper will explain what are three long-term care populations evident in my local community and if I was aware of these evident. Long term care is a health and social service there
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This training guide has been prepared as a reference guide only‚ covering the material that was discussed within todays training session and should only be used in conjunction with what was discussed. It has been established that a private client has the following protection needs: 1.health‚ incapacity or accident; 2.income‚ mortgage and other debt; 4.death; 5.asset protection; 6.business protection. We have in turn looked at each of these needs and discussed which protection products would assist
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of long-term care (LTC) services. Two current needs are (1) post-surgery aftercare and (2) for individuals who require medical attention over an extended period that does not warrant a stay in the hospital. Presently the two common uses of LTC are (1) to assist with daily activities and (2) rehabilitation services. LTC is available for a myriad of reasons and is based on the person’s needs and health care requirements and is not limited to a specific age or medical condition. Long-term care services
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million Americans will be retired (U.S. Census Bureau‚ 2008). This does not include the larger number of people living longer up to or over the age of 80. During the golden years‚ individuals will require different types of long-term care services to live out the rest of their life comfortably. Depending upon a consumer’s medical condition or needs‚ several options of long-term care or nursing facilities may be needed. Long-term services can be broken down into several categories. Some services
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