Mercy Nagbe
HCS/235
Presentation
Professor Nate Garner
November 15, 2015

What Is Long-term Care
● Health derives the need for care.
● How long does care last?
● Who will need Long-term care?

Long Term Care
Ensuring quality care: The decision to put a family member in a long-term care facility, nursing homes or assisted living home can be very difficult, but one of the primary concerns is about whether or not your family member will get loving care and quality care in a safe environment.

Residents Rights
Respect: Long-term care resident residents are to be treated with dignity and respect. They have the right to select the activities that they would love to participate in. They also have the right to leave the facilities with family or friends after notifying the staff.
Restraints: By law it is wrong to use physical chemical restraints on residents except when it is necessary to treat medical symptoms.

Who are stakeholders?
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Providers
Payers
Employers
Patients

Between patient and employer
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Patients have the expectancy to be offer a wide variety of options for whatever care that can be customized to their special needs.
Basic premise is to provide the most options and the least out of pocket cost to consumer. Employers want to maintain their cost and contribution and they want the patient/employee to seek only needed care, and instructions.
Patients should seek to reduce their health risk behaviours, i,e. diet, exercise and smoking.

Between Providers and Payers
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providers have to provide the best service by using the most accurate method and also they have to provide preventative care for patients.

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Also payers have to follow a clear, evidence based, diagnostic plan and reach an accurate diagnosis and treatment plan.

Description and Role in Providing Services.
● Improving the health status of individuals, family and communities. ●