Home Care Observation

The information contained in this report was gathered in a private nursing home over 2 weeks that for the sake of this essay, be called “facility x”

For my observation on daily health checks, I got the opportunity to arrive early at 8:30 A.M. during arrival for my class and physically witnessed the health checks. I saw first-hand how the teacher took about two minutes to greet the child and parent and ask a few questions about the child’s well-being questions like: “How are you feeling today?” In addition to the physical daily health checks, I noticed the minute I entered the school area that there where posters about the process of daily health checks and other ones like a “keep your child at home” poster in the check in area, and the front doors of each classroom. The final thing I observed was that the check in area is at the front desk and unless the child is checked in by a parent or guardian and received by their teacher

Patient is a 88 year old Hispanic female who lives alone in her home. Patient stated she was born in Arizona and moved to Phoneix shortly after, where she lived most of her life. Patient's mother passed away when she was 12 years old. Patinet's father passed away when she was 15 years old. Pt has worked as a housewife and varies types of jobs for about 25 years. Patient was married to her husband for 40 years till he passed away. Patient moved in with one of her older brothers till he passed away from a alochol related illness. Pt's brother, Rudy, stated she is independent with her personal needs, meals and housecleaning. Rudy said he and his wife check up on the patient everyday and assist her if needed. Rudy made it clear that the patient

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.

To provide strategies and policy options to keep children and young people in out-of-home-care in education with a relatively satisfied performance, and to help the government in training and supporting for foster carers as they play a significant role in the academic performance and development of the children and young persons under their care.

The results of this research will hopefully give United Community Services a general idea on how they would like to proceed in building and starting their home care agency. This research information will also assist them in developing goals, implementing services to their future clientele and strengthening their training resources for future graduates who will be hired as direct care workers.

Seniors face many challenges in their day to day life and often need assistance with daily activities. Home Care is a service, which may be covered under Medicare and Medicaid, that provides seniors assistance in meal preparation, transportation, medication reminders, and other daily tasks. A skilled caregiver will come to your home and provide daily assistance to ensure the activities of daily living are met. In 2000, 7.6 million people received some degree of in-home care services (Tender Hearts, 2017). With Home Care being a lower cost solution to facility care, many seniors are choosing to maintain their lifestyle and keep their independence by using in-home care services

Since home care service providers are focused entirely on your senior loved one, the care is personal and interactive. From walks in the park or mall to gardening, dancing, or just reminiscing with a photo album, the providers work with the medical staff and your loved one to maximize their quality of life. Beyond just care services, seniors often look forward to the visits for the social aspects of care and companionship.

Home healthcare is an extremely competitive industry. According to Harris William&Co Home Health Market report, home healthcare is a 40-billion-dollar industry and it is still growing. One of the reason is home healthcare is less expensive than any other form of care, especially inpatient hospitalization, which patients are required to stay in the hospital for a day or more. Home healthcare’s compelling cost-saving opportunities increases the demand in the industry. Furthermore, population of people over 65 years old is expected to increase more than 40 percent by 2020, so home healthcare industry will continue to grow.

Many of the services that previously required a hospital stay can now be provided in a patient’s home; consequently, the demand for home health care service continues to rise. A study conducted by the U.S. General Accounting Office finds that people who receive home care enjoy a better quality of life and tend to live longer.

accommodate their social activities and role obligations. In addition, the caregiver must restructure the way they relate to a patient living with HIV/AIDS (Hsiao, 2010).

The need for home care companion increases dramatically as Americans get older. By the year 2030, the number of people 65 years and older will require some type of assistance.

A more explicit finding demonstrates how the care work environment influence the relationship between home care workers, clients, and the families. Meyer (2015) conducted an anthropology research focusing on immigrant care workers from South America to Genoa, the city with the highest percentage of the older population in Italy, to provide private home care services. The study included focus group, group interviews, and individual interviews during 2009-2010. She approached the participants at Spanish-language church services, care worker training courses, and other immigrant events. Historical settings regarding the labor unions in Italy, social understanding, and political

The goal of home health care is to offer cost effective patient-centered care for patients recuperating from an acute condition, managing a chronic condition, rehabilitative episode, or supporting a severe mental illness. Over the years the United States has fell in and out of favor with utilizing home health care and the public polices directly reflects the sentiments of the era. Are we returning to the roots of home health care in the United States? With the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and inclusion of Triple Aim, the pendulum is once again swaying toward including home health providers as a means of optimizing health care for Americans. Triple Aim is a concept-developed by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) that focuses on “improving the patient experience of care, improving the health of populations, and reducing the per capita cost of heath care.” (IHI triple aim) Using home health will help achieve the goal of Triple Aim. Home health will work with patients by assessing the right care at the right time while closely monitoring patient’s status to analyze where on the continuum of health the patient will receive the appropriate level of care

In order for a community based social and health care system to be established, the community has to find its significance in their lives and for the betterment of the society. The need of a Caregiving home is highly relevant and that is why it has sparked the initiative to have it established. The benefits of this institution spans out in a number of divergent ways, and they can be analyzed as follows. First, The economic benefits; currently, in the US the number of aged people is rising significantly, and it is heading towards north of twenty five million people, who are sixty plus years. Out of this number, twenty three million are financially insecure, leading a life of doubt and instability in terms of rising housing and health bills, inadequate nutrition, lack of access to transportation and diminishing savings. This category lives below the federal poverty levels and minor economic change alters their life completely for the worst.