Assisted Living Issues

Taking care of the individuals that are getting older takes many different needs. Most of these needs cannot be given from the help of a family. This causes the need of having to put your love one into a home and causing for the worry of how they will be treated. It is important for the family and also the soon to be client to feel at home in their new environment. This has been an issue with the care being provided for each individual, which has lead to the need of making sure individuals have their own health care plan.

Assisted Living Concepts Inc., hereafter referred to as ALC, was a Nevada corporation formed in 1994 with its principal place of business in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin. ALC provides senior assisted living residences that provide multiple personal services for their residences. ALC was purchased by Extendicare Health Services, Inc. in January 2005. In 2006 ALC was spun off from Extendicare as a publicly traded company. As of December 31, 2012 ALC had 211 assisted and independent living residences in 20 states totaling 9,348 units with 4,600 employees. ALC generated revenues in excess of $228 million dollars for year-end 2012 (Assisted Living Concepts, Inc. 2013). In July 2013, ALC was acquired by the private equity firm TPG Capital, L.P. for $278.3 million dollars (Boulton 2013). In March 2014 ALC changed their name to Enlivant (Enlivant 2014).

Mr. and Mrs. B, a couple in their 90’s without children, made their own decision to move to Assisted Living. Mr. B’s sister lived there already so they were familiar with the facility and comfortable with their choice. They decided to move on the 10th of the month when their apartment rent was due, and Mr. B arranged for a moving company to transfer their furniture and belongings.

Vicki, I spoke to Lisa and she refused the offer for an Assisted Living long term move; in addition to the room size, the rooms in ASL were not inviting enough. As per Lisa, she does her mother’s pill box, Ms. Shilling eats all of the groceries that she brings in weekly, Ms. Shilling is clean and free of odor and Lisa does her laundry. Lisa is not concern about her mother’s falls, she feels she will fall wherever she is. Essentially, Lisa feels her mother is not at the point to move to ASL at this time.

When you are working in health and social care environment concerns might arise from specific incidents or emergencies. However, when you are working in residential care home there are lots of concerns that might arise as I have discussed in my P4 if a fire was to happen. So, one of the main concerns that might arise in a care home will be if there was a security codes taking place because theft might happen as everybody will be focusing on getting the residents of the care home out of the building. The reason why I have chosen this responses is because I believe that it is a very important to be aware including remember when fire is taking place. Even though your first priority should be getting the residents out of the building as they are

In Being Mortal, Atul Gawande painted a little depressing picture of the realities faced by the elderly in the US nowadays: declining health status, economic insecurity, and loss of independence. It seems once the older people move into nursing homes or assisted living facilities, they lose autonomy, dignity and privacy as the institutions are not able to fully individualize care. Even though the situation has been improving, it still shocks me to see how unhappy some of the elderly are in these circumstances. Realizing senior care facilities often fail to address all aspects of well-being, I would like to explore the issues of promoting both objective and subjective component in quality of care for the older people.

The participants of this study was 91 individuals who were living at Arden House, a Connecticut nursing home. these individuals were separated into two groups, the first group ( containing 8 men and

For this assignment I decided to write my reflection paper on the “Life and Death in Assisted Living” video. Out of all the videos that were presented to me, I felt this video was the most interesting to me. This video showed many different incidents that happen assisted living facility on the day to day, that many people including myself was not aware of. One of the main reasons I find this video interesting is, because one day I plan to be an administrator at an assisted living. I preferably want to be an administrator of an assisted living with a hundred beds or more. As an administrator I want to make sure I understand the positions, feelings, and point of views from everyone involved in the facility, including from the residents as well.

The Topic of my research paper is How to Start Your Own Assisted Living Business. I choose this topic because I have some experience in the health care field. I am a certified Medical Assistant and I wanted to take my education to the next level. The Health care job market is on high demand and is one of today’s most dynamic fields with a wide range of opportunities. I came to realize that the older you get in this country options for housing, health and personal care services become limited.

Hanson, Massachusetts is a town on Plymouth County with a total population of 11,063 as of July 1, 2017. This town is well-populated, but you won't find many things to do beyond dining out, some local shopping, grocery shopping, enjoying nature, and grabbing a quick coffee and bite from the local Dunkin Donuts or McDonald's. It's peaceful and serene, especially at the local senior living community, All American Assisted Living.

“There is some evidence that the quality of care for nursing home residents has improved, such as the decreased use of physical restraints and psychotropic medications, serious problems continue for many residents, especially those at the end of their lives.” Some of the issues have been corrected, not abusing or neglecting the elderly patients but the services are not handling the most important part of the patients’ lives. They are still having some issues with handling the patients that are at the end of their lives, they need to focus on the end of their lives in dealing with this they need to know how deal with this part with them and the families.

To begin, there are two main issues that make it difficult for American Muslims to accept assisted living facilities for their elderly parents or support the development of assisted living and nursing care facilities. The first issue has to do with their culture and how unique it is. The Muslim culture has specific guidelines on how they are supposed to live according to the Quran. One cultural issue is that Muslims are taught to respect their elders, but it was never explained in the Quran how to do that exactly. Many Muslims are torn between putting their parents in a nursing home because they can’t give them the right care, or they succumb to peer pressure and do what other Muslims are doing keeping their parents at home with them, which

Later adulthood is the time in life when changes in marriage, families, and peer relationships are affected the most by the loss of someone close to that person. “Most people 70 years of age or older are widowed, divorced, or single” (Zastrow & Kirst-Ashman, 2010, p.619). Losing a spouse or close friend can create a sense of loneliness, which causes depression, anxiety and the emptiness feeling can become overwhelming. Depression also leads to psychological effects that will deteriorate a person’s health causing the chance for a terminal disease to become much higher. The weaker appearance of older adults causes family and remaining peers to step up in the role of making sure the person’s wellbeing is being met. (Zastrow & Kirst-Ashman, 2010). Living accommodations and healthcare needs

No, it is actually the opposite. In order to live in an assisted living, you pay cash. Insurance is not needed for this environment. It is an out of pocket expense for these individuals. Unfortunately, these individuals have the money and they chose this type of care, we provide the care. They have to fill the bed so we take them in.

As people age they develop many special needs related to the later period of life. Many elderly people have specific physical needs where adaptations to their home are necessary or where they need specific equipment for self care. Old age also brings new emotional challenges for the elderly person when the family can be useful in helping to meet the persons mental health needs. Senior citizens experience needs in their social life; they also experience the need for activities with other seniors. Health needs also negatively affect the elderly and cause multiple physical problems. Every elderly person experiences needs that are related to each of these areas.