edical care is rising at alarming rates as our American population is aging with the baby-boomer generation reaching retirement levels. Adult patients 65 and older are taking up more than 40% of acute care hospital beds, while 70 million Americans will be turning 65 by 2030, making this the country's fastest growing generation. The geriatric population appear to be requiring more medical care due to an increase of chronic conditions, such as diabetes, high blood pressure, and arthritis. These illnesses
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Analysis of an Ethical Dilemma, Impact of Voluntary/Assisted Euthanasia Luellen Lawler, Soma Philip, Annamma Anto, and Janice Haddock Team Green, Grand Canyon University Ethical Decision Making in Health Care 437 V Dr. Ann Leslie Claesson September 01, 2012 Analysis of an Ethical Dilemma, Impact of Voluntary/Assisted Euthanasia There are several topics in the field of biomedical ethics that are controversial and by nature require careful examination of one’s own values and viewpoints
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"Overview of the U.S. Health Services Delivery System" * Chapter 13, "Primary Care" * Chapter 14, "Secondary Care" * Chapter 15, "Long-Term Care" (pp. 349–369 only) * Chapter 16, "Tertiary Care" * Chapter 17, "Palliative Care" * Chapter 18, "The Care of Special Populations and Special Disorders" (pp. 399–406 only) * Chapter 19, "The Health Services Delivery System: How Managed Care Has Influenced Delivery" (Note: This chapter was assigned in a previous week;
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training and support of the caregiver can lead to improved patient care, reduced strain on the caregiver, and can prevent further complications in the patient while maintaining the health of the caregiver. Success of the program will be obtained through pre- and post-intervention measurements utilizing the Modified Caregiver Strain Index- MCSI (see example in Appendix C). In order to achieve the desired
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Research the following health care settings: * Residential * Day Care * Nursing * Domiciliary Then discuss the similarities and differences between a nurse in a hospital and a Macmillan nurse. Find out about qualifications, experience, job criteria, work hours etc. Residential Care is when a person leaves their home environment in order to be cared for in a secure and safe place. People who need and use this type of care may not be able to independently care for themselves and keep
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In recent years growing attention has been giving to the fact that African Americans are less likely to pursue hospice care at the end of their lives. This paper will first examine the case for hospice and why it is a valuable resource and one that is consistent with Christian values. Then, I will survey the data regarding African Americans and hospice, particularly looking at considering what the main factors are for the racial disparity of hospice users. I conclude the main factor is distrust for
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Independence of older people The older people’s health and wellbeing Framework reference group was established on 21 June 2010. It is a group of older people with experience as users and carers of health and social care services. Its guide is to provide comments and recommendations on a draft service framework document commissioned by the department of health, social services and public safety on the health and wellbeing of older people. For older people, independence is about choice and control
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personal biases, attitudes, and conceived stereotypes regarding this population. The patient chosen as an example for this paper is Norma James from the University of Phoenix “neighborhood”. Mrs James is a widow who’s vulnerability relating to health care will be compared with information gathered through research and applied to the elderly population and those with chronic illness. The vulnerabilities faced by Norma will be a realistic representation of the challenges associated with this population
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ethics, and morally unacceptable because it devalued human life. Furthermore, these critics found that assisted suicide was not valid because there were alternative solutions, such as improving physician training on pain management, and end of life care (Merino, 2012). In 1997, the decision was made, to sign into law, the Oregon Death with Dignity Act (ODWDA), which allowed Oregon physicians to prescribe medicine to specific patients fully knowing that consuming it would bring about the patient’s
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Palliative Care and Surgical Disciplines: Palliation and surgery have a historical association. The word ‘palliative’ was first used by a surgeon, a urologic oncologist, who established the world’s first acute care hospital in-patient palliative care service at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal in 1974 [2]. Surgeons, irrespective of their specialty, encounter a wide spectrum of death and dying in their daily practice – this may be a patient with severe trauma, burn or advanced stage cancer
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