...states that the Canadian Government is not doing enough in senior homes. This article talks about the abuse in senior homes and this is one of the points that will be used in order to prove my hypothesis. It also specifically talks about Canadian senior homes and this is exactly what the focus of the hypothesis is. CBC News. (2000). Elderly abused in Quebec nursing homes. Retrieved May 1, 2009 from http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2000/03/08/elderly000308.html. This article reported by the CBC news looks at nursing homes specifically in Quebec from the year 1995 to 1999. The studies show that there is a “pattern of abuse” in Quebec nursing homes specifically from these years. Some problems that were talked about were the lack of nurses to care for the elderly, which meant some were left unclean, untreated and hungry. Another problem was that the elderly were being treated and moved around like objects causing bruises and injuries on their bodies. There was a...
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...Evolution of Services and Programs For as long as humans have existed, there has been elderly care. By nature, we are a caring species. The means of the care provided for the elderly population has evolved tremendously within the last fifty years. The twentieth century has been a record era for the elderly population. Within the last fifty years, programs and services have been established to provide many means for older adults. To care for older adults, many programs and services have gone above and beyond to provide as much as possible for older adults to remain happy and healthy throughout their later years. In 1965, Medicaid and Medicare were established as part of the Social Security Act (Administration for Community Living, n.d.). When the Medicare law was passed, large nursing homes based on medical models were built. These facilities included nursing stations and routine care that was given until the patient passed away. In the 1980s, Congress was brought to the attention of abuse and neglect in nursing homes. To stop this from happening, the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987 was declared. This stated that residents in nursing homes deserve a home where they can live for the rest of their lives like individuals. At this time, social, spiritual, emotional, occupational, recreational and cultural needs were introduced as needs to the elderly residents. Today, the elderly population is growing rapidly as the Baby Boom generation enters their older...
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...Caring for Elderly Parents How to care for elderly parents is a major concern of many Foreign Service families. Our concerns mirror those of other American families, but how to ensure good health care, find the right living situation, and handle legal questions is often complicated for Foreign Service families by being posted abroad. The distance involved makes it harder to get information and help so contingency planning is essential. Often Foreign Service families only have short visits during R & R or on home leave and hate to spend the precious time with their parents talking about serious business or unpleasant possibilities. Or we may be caught up in hectic preparations for an overseas assignment and not want to take the time to do contingency planning with parents. While it is difficult to discuss the issues of aging, the family who has discussed the options and agreed on plans will be better able to handle whatever happens. It will be worth the time taken, if there is an emergency. The ideal situation is when the parents take control of their own situations and make decisions in advance of an emergency. They should investigate the types of retirement options and decide which is most appropriate, make informed decisions about life-sustaining medical care, and make sure that documents, instructions, and powers of attorney are available to those who must take responsibility in an emergency. The American Association of Retired Persons recommends that elderly people...
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...for elderly in residential care A perception of good health inevitably lies in the eyes of the beholder (Strain, LA 1993). While some strive to maintain their bodies in peak physical condition, health management for the elderly in residential care is treated otherwise. Years of labour and strain is evident in their physical appearance, however it is beneath all this which is key to the vitality of their lives. Physiotherapists, also referred to as physical therapists, are one profession working with the elderly to maintain a state of wellbeing for everyday activity and participation. Through prevention, strengthening and mobility, these fundamental areas in elderly conditioning have more than superficial benefits. Nurses, as well as doctors, occupational therapists and specialists, are also crucial to this client group, ensuring the best possible health is maintained. Physiotherapists are aptly equipped with the skills and knowledge to assess individual patients and prevent avoidable mishaps from occurring. Elderly people over the age of 65 are more likely to experience incidents such as falls due to arthritis, prescribed medications and general impairment (Tinetti, ME 2003). Exercise prescription programs can specifically target areas to achieve maximum range of movement and reduce these risk factors. Researchers at Yale School of Medicine found that falls among the elderly were reduced by 11 percent when clinicians incorporated management and education of fall prevention...
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...vulnerable populations are children, the elderly, the disabled, and the mentally disabled. Populations Reviewed For the purposes of this paper, I looked into two different special populations. The first group I reviewed was the elderly. The elderly often face ridicule and stereotyping and this can lead to abuse and neglect. In fact, many elderly people function independently in society but for others, aging cause problems with their ability to make sound decisions, care for their own physical and financial needs, and several other issues. This is why many of the elderly need the assistance of support services. I am really interested in elderly care do to the fact I hear so much in the news about elderly mistreated. I think of my grandparents while hearing this. I feel even though they are elderly doesn’t mean they don’t have feeling. I think I would have so much impact in helping the elderly. I feel I can learn so much from the elderly and yet make sure they are getting the proper care that they need. I was doing research online and came across a website, umkc.edu, while looking on that website; it said that the heterogeneity among the elderly population and within subtypes of the population is often ignored. Increased...
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...style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: bottom; border: 0px;"> Reflective Writing“Being a caregiver of senior people is a challenge” this is my contemplation after I went to the field visit. I observed a numerous of learning situations in the area of aged care facilities. I explored myself with the permition of my facilitator to look around and have a little time conv ersation to elderly people. As the exploration and observation going trough I found out that communicating with the elderly people is a difficult process and a challenge to the caregiver that may impact to implement the system of care. Communication is one of the barrier that results in difficulty and stress between caregivers and elderly patient. This may vary in different ways such as cultures, languages and lose of some forms of functionality (Edwards & Chapman 2004 and Smith et al., 2010). Base on my knowledge of learning and experienced of visiting nursing home; I will finish by reflecting the significance of this assignments and the suggestion of giving care for elderly people and coping stress of a caregiver. While I’m sitting down beside of 76 years old woman for having a converse, I had a feeling of amusing in her story and a bit of emotional as well when I realised her thorny situation. Recently, the nurse comes for the medication of this old woman that I am talking with. In this situation I learned...
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...Assessment Process and Needs Problem Statement BSHS/452 Assessment Process and Needs Problem Statement The population Team C’s community organization, Human Services Association, serves is families, children, and the elderly. The population is in Bell Gardens, CA. The need is evident every day. The children do not have proper daycare and are home alone although their parents work. The cost of daycare is more than low income families can afford. The elderly are home alone without social workers to implement a care plan. Our organization will provide a safe and supervised environment, a nutritious afterschool snack and help with homework Low income adults and families can come to the organization for help with food, clothing, and parenting classes. Our organization will provide; housing, rental, and utility assistance. The elderly in our area live alone. They often do not have proper meals or someone to check in to ensure that medication is taken and physician appointments are kept. Social workers can visit them at home, set up transportation to our center and provide for general medical help at the center. There is a nurse practitioner on site for the elderly clients and the children. Their responsibilities would be to fix booboos because children do fall and assess the elderly clients, blood pressure, sugar level, and mood. The elderly who come into the center would get help and socialization. The elderly clients, who are able, can read...
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...hazards which could put the elderly people who live there in risk. Firstly, the care home is in an old Victorian house which means the flooring is most likely going to be unsteady; this can lead to people tripping over and banging their head. Also, the building is on 2 floors so elders are forced to walk up stairs and with their poor vision. As Sunnyvale residential home is an old Victorian building the floor is made of concrete so if someone was to fall over the impact is going to be ten times worse than the first floor with carpet. The elderly people are free to walk up and down the stairs with no supervision. This is a problem because if they tripped over, there’s no one to help them back up. The lift in the home continuously out of order and the owners are unwilling to repair it as it will cost a lot of money. The utility room is only checked monthly by staff which is not enough because the washing machine could have broken down and it won’t be replaced. A possible solution is to check it every single day. Previously the care home had a health & safety leader but they retired and the role has not been taken over. This means no one is checking regularly, if at all, all the hazards and possible risks in Sunnyvale residential home. However, there are some things which the elderly care home are doing right. For example, there are 13 members of staff in all which is enough to take care of everyone in the home. Only staff can get into the building as there is a CCTV...
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...Healthcare The business is all about providing non-medical aged care to the elderly, so that they can hopefully stay in the comfort of their own home, rather than have to move to an aged care facility. Our services will be kept pretty simple, but will be tailored individually to each customer. The structure of the business will be pretty simple to start with, I’ll be the main boss overseeing everything, and doing a bit of work myself, with a couple of employees, and that will increase as the business grows. The business will be innovative in the way that it connects with other groups and businesses. We will also be the first private South Australian company that receives Health and Community Care funding from the government. Currently, only private businesses in Perth and Victoria are receiving this funding. 2 As I said before the business will focus on helping the elderly in everyday activities. Our services will include things like • Support services such as gardening, lawn mowing, cooking, cleaning, transport, food shopping, phone up service • Mental/physical stimulation sessions • and we can fit out the house out with equipment needed in order for person to stay at home This will all be individually tailored to the customer and what they want or need. As you can see on the screen the age profile of the Australian population is set to become a lot older. There is going to be need for a lot more aged care in our country. This generation have worked hard and have...
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...Cost of Health Benefits Human Resource Management BMGT 6311 June 03, 2015 Jason Timberlake Citation/Source Christianson, Jon B.; Trude, Sally. (2003). Managing Costs, Managing Benefits: Employer Decisions in Local Health Care Markets. Health Services Research, 2003, Vol.38(1p2), pp.357-373 Major Thesis Benefit packages and options are a hot topic for employers. One of the biggest, albeit expensive, options is healthcare benefits. This introduces us to the decision making process of health benefits, how these strategies evolve over time, and how these employer decisions impact the local health care systems. The study described in this article is a Community Tracking Study (CTS), which is a study of how healthcare changes over a given period of time and the effects of these changes the people of the surrounding community. For this particular article, the time frame was a six year period covering twelve randomly selected communities. Results from healthcare benefit surveys are normally reported by several outlets, to include popular press and academic journals. These surveys and their respective results provide important information regarding healthcare changes, the current state of state and federal health systems, and out of pocket costs associated with these changes. Over the six year period of this study, the data collected compares two roles that employers have played in the local health care system. One role is private while the other is public. The focus...
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...GASTROINTESTINAL INTUBATION Clients, especially those undergoing abdominal or gastrointestinal (GI) surgery, may require some type of tube placed within their stomachs or intestines gastrointestinal tubes provide nourishment to client who cannot eat. First, let’s take a look at which patients may be candidates for tube feeding .Patients with chronic illness or psychiatric or neurologic disorder ,such as alcoholism, chronic depression, or anorexia .Patients who are debilitated because of disease or injury .Patients undergoing maxillofacial or cervical surgery resulting from disease or injury. Patients with or pharyngeal or esophageal paralysis resulting from disease or injury, neoplasm, inflammation, trauma, or respitory failure. Tube feeding are not a one-size-fits- all measurement they have proximal and distal end, their size, construction, and composition vary according to their use. Tubes are measure by using the French scale each number on the scale equal approximately 0.33mm. The larger the number, the larger the diameter of the tube. That is one of the reason‘s why every patients condition is considered individually to determine whether which tube feeding is best for the patients specific condition and needs. Secondly, let’s discussed where the tubes maybe placed any why. Tubes can be identified according to the location of insertion, or there distal end. The choice of feeding route is based on the patient’s medical status, aspiration, and expected duration of...
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...the Office of the President due to the assassination of John f. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson launched his Great Society campaign that was designed to eliminate poverty and racial injustice (citation). To accomplish this, the program proposed major spending to address areas such as medical care, urban and transportation issues, and education. One portion of the education reform was a program designed to assist preschool children, ages 3-5, from economically disadvantaged families with a variety of comprehensive services, such as early education, medical, dental, and nutrition assistance. This program was termed “Head Start.” In the last four decades the program has met its goal of assisting numerous disadvantaged youth, but questions have arisen as to whether or not the program has had any real impact on the children as they have grown up. The Organization Since its inception in 1965, Head Start has assisted more than 25 million preschool children (Frisvold & Lumeng, 2011, p. 376). Children can be eligible for the program’s assistance if they are at least three years old, the family’s total income is either equal to or less than the poverty guideline, or if the child is disabled or in foster care (Office of Head Start, 2007). Currently, the funding and costs of Head Start restrict the program to only allowing about 55% of eligible children, and these restraints require that a selection process be conducted amongst those eligible to determine which children- the most disadvantaged-will...
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...FACILITY SURVEY Under Reproductive Child Health Project 2007-08 SC, PHC, CHC & DH MANUAL International Institute for Population Sciences (Deemed University), Mumbai-400 088 Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Government of India, New Delhi- 110 011 CONTENTS I II III IV INTRODUCTION………………………………………………………. OBJECTIVES…………………………………………………………… METHODOLOGY. …………………………………………………………. QUESTIONNAIRE…………………………………………………….. DISTRICT HOSPITAL…………………………………………………. COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE…………………………………… PRIMARY HEALTH CENTRE……………………………………… SUB-CENTRE………………………………………………………….. 3-4 5 5 7 7 7 7 7 8-9 9 9 10 10 11 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 13 14-16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 V VI VII VIII IX X XI XII XIII GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS………………………………………….. HUMAN RESOURCES………………………………………………… TRAINING……………………………………………………………… INVESTIGATIVE FACILITY…………………………………………. INFRASTRUCTURE…………………………………………………… PHYSICAL FACILITY………………………………………………… INSTRUMENT AND EQUIPMENT…………………………………… ESSENTIAL DRUG…………………………………………………… ESSENTIAL SERVICES PROVIDED………………………………… ESSENTIAL LABORATORY SERVICES……………………………. ESSENTIAL CLINICAL SERVICES…………………………………. XIV XV XVI SPECIFIC SERVICES…………………………………………………. MONITORING AND SUPERVISION………………………………… ASSIGNMENT SHEET………………………………………………… ANEXURE 1……………………………………………………………. ANEXURE 2……………………………………………………………. ANEXURE 3……………………………………………………………. ANEXURE 4……………………………………………………………. ANEXURE 5……………………………………………………………. ANEXURE 6……………………………………………………………. ANEXURE 7……………………………………………………………...
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...myself regarding to how to collect and organise patient’s comprehensive health assessment data use these frameworks. The Functional Health Pattern assessment framework is particularly useful in collecting health data to formulate nursing diagnoses (Gordon, 1994, p. 69). Gordon has defined 11 functional health patterns that provide for a holistic client database (p.70). The first pattern is Health perception-health management pattern, is focused on the patient’s perceived level of health and well-being, and how to manage patient’s health. The next pattern is Nutritional –metabolic pattern. This assessment is focused on the pattern of food and fluid intake relative to metabolic need (pp. 80-82). The Elimination pattern is the third pattern. In this pattern, data collection is focused on excretory of the patient. Includes regularity and control of bowel and bladder habits. The fourth pattern is Activity- exercise pattern. Assessment is focused on the patient’s activities of daily living that require energy expenditure and movement, including self-care activities, exercise, and leisure activities (Gordon, 1994, pp. 83-85). The next pattern is Sleep-rest pattern. Describes patient’s sleep, rest, and relaxation practices. Dysfunctional sleep patterns,...
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...| Health, Safety and Welfare | Main elements of effective health and safety policy along with the organizational arrangements necessary for its implementation | | Nipuna Rangana Rathnayaka | ICBT/MT/CV/03/07 | | Introduction This is the second assignment given to us under the Health, Safety & Welfare subject. The scenario of a construction site is given with the situations that occurred and occurring and we have to provide solutions for the health and safety concerns as the appointed safety manager. Table of contents Task 2 Task 2.1 a. Analyzing of existing safety policy and procedures b. Roles of individuals Task 2.2 * Recommended Training for the present situation Task 2.3 * Methods of recording health and safety inspections Task 2 Task 2.1 a. Analyzing of existing safety policy and procedures * Safety Policy of the organization As the organization states XYZ Co Limited is bound to ensure the health, safety and welfare of all the employees employed and the contractors. Also their policy states that they will accept the responsibilities for their activities which affect other persons. * Provide and maintain safe machinery and reasonable, practical safe systems of work to ensure health and safety by assessing risk periodically. As the above policy state, the XYZ construction Co Ltd is committed to provide and maintain the safety of the employees by ensuring the equipment and machines present in the construction...
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