Home Care Assessment : Discussion, Assessment Urgency Scale And Rehab Scale

This essay will use a case study to explore the role and contribution that social work brings to an Aged Care Assessment Team (ACAT). The case study chosen involves Joe: a man in his 80s who has recently been diagnosed with two chronic illnesses; suffered a fall at home and has a weakened social support system. By exploring the knowledge and skills that a social worker would draw upon to help a man like Joe, it will become evident that while social workers are unique members of an ACAT they are often restricted in their work by the limited nature of the ACAT role.

Thank you for meeting with me regarding the employment opportunities. I will like to inform you that as of yesterday I accepted a Full time position as a recruiter with Marquis Home Care. They are located at 230 North Main Street Spring Valley NY 10977 and their phone number is 845-363-8140. Should you need further information, please feel free to contact me by phone or email.

In 1877 life in the cities of Cheyenne and Chicago were very different. Although they differed they had few things in common such as the use of newspapers for information. Another thing that both of the cities had in common was neither city had used electric lights yet. Also,both cities used trains as a mode of transportation.

Does being a home health aide require a college or technical degree? Yes yes it does from what i know. how many years of school does it take to be a home health aide? Three days or 75 hours. what are good colleges to attend for a home health aide? Baker college, seminole community college, and northern kentucky university.

The another critical concerning aspect is that the practicability of frailty measurement. Selecting ease in administration scoring (fewer items, no need specialized training), feasible and usable (including less time & no specific equipment), and cultural sensitivity of the frailty assessment tools is mandatory in clinical settings.

Your senior loved one is important and there are many different senior care services available. What do you do, how do you decide what service is best? In short, with all of the other choices in the market, why choose Comfort Keepers?

Managed adult patients with chronic conditions such as diabetes, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia. In collaboration with the physician, develops a treatment plan along with the patients and significant others.

In 2013, Dorota Slawa Mankowska et al, worked on real study for a home care company that present the care for the at patients in their homes by staff members. They developed the mathematical model that aim to optimizing economical service cost and take care about individual qualifications of the staff, time preferences of patients, number of the staff required to this patient and certain time of patient’s drugs. This model has been able to achieve low average waiting times for patients, low traveling cost for caregivers, a fair distribution of inevitable tardiness, and service hundred patients in acceptable runtime.

I have use evidence base practice often in homecare. I had a homecare patient who has hypertension and don’t check his blood pressure regular. I explained to him the important of checking blood pressure daily. Evidence based practice shows self-management of blood pressure is a useful tool in monitor hypertension and preventing stroke (McNamar, Versace, Marriott & Dunbar, 2014). I requested the family to buy an electronic blood pressure cuff. I encouraged patient to record blood pressure daily and record. I also instructed patient to take results to next doctor appointment.

Seniors with breathing issues are not able to take in as much air into their lungs as they did prior to their breathing issues. Further, the air that they do take in is not processed as efficiently. In the end, this means there is less oxygen getting to the cells. Less oxygen means less energy.

Depression in home-based care: The Role of the Home Health Nurse, Volume 34, Issue7. Pages 360-368, July/August 2016. Written by Carla Groh and Manuel Dumlao. As the title of the article suggest, the author discusses the growing problem of depression in the older homebound adult. The abstract is very clear about what the article is about and provides a detailed description about its contents. In the introduction to the article the author states that the purpose of the article is to help promote better care in the home setting with regards to depression. The author proposed that depression in the homebound patient can very likely be related to the fact that the nurse and healthcare provider are more focused on the physical needs of the patient

Seniors face many health risks, deal with injuries at a greater rate than other demographics, and, according the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, are more likely to be admitted to the hospital when something does happen. Because seniors are at a greater risk for contracting infections in the hospital, it is important that they not remain hospitalized for any longer than they need to be.

I vision myself 5 to ten years from now working with seniors at an assisted living community. I want to be able to help families find the right living environment for their loved ones. There is a lot that goes into consideration when searching for the right assisted living. I was happy to come across an job offer as an executive director at Brookdale Senior Living. Some specific job tasks that appeals to me is that I get to oversee the community staff and making sure that the tasks are being done every day. I will hold the key to making the community that I will be working for a place that senior residents can call home. I have a passion for making people happy, and seeing their smiles is my goal in any job. Some strengths that

Since there is no one accepted operational definition of frailty, it is impossible to enumerate frail persons in the population. Therefore, prevalence of frailty varies widely depending on its definitions and patient selection. One European

Most of the hospital admission are of older people present with fall, immobility, confusion are unable to cope at home. These people should not be dismissed with label as social admission or off leg (Oliver 2008; Kee and Rippingale 2009).