Home Care Observation

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

The room was filled with baby beds that lined the wall. Caregivers took turns feeding babies based off the time that they had previously ate. Some babies were put in a highchair to be fed something other than milk. After feeding the babies the caregivers would write on report sheets what time the baby ate. The sheets were located on the all as soon as you walk in. The were for the parents to retrieve when they picked up their baby(s).

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

I am very glad for being part of this short course that has a high content of education. It has been a huge experience for me, as this was the first time I have visited a home care facility, and the first time I am inside a multi-sensory room. I learned many things within some hours, and it was very helpful to read chapter 18 before the lecture to have an idea of some key concepts that the professor explains later in class. For example, sensory stimulation is the activation of one or more senses of the patient by providing several items or experiences. Also, sensory integration is another term very important, in which the objective is to enhance the brain’s capacity to perceive, remember, and motor plan. Finally, sensory diet is another term

Being in a nursing home can lead a person back into the hospital and back into a nursing home. As this cycle becomes regular, people can lose hope of getting better. Residents would stop participating in activities to would improve their functioning. Having the conversation of how much progression was made during their stay and before the hospitalization, can make a difference. Social learning theory focuses on learning through observations. As a social work student, I had to observe my field instructor function as a social worker in a nursing home setting. Through observations, I could observe how to act professionally. I had learned how to perform daily tasks and document paperwork appropriately. Supervision allowed me to provide feedback

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 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.