Lakeview Health Care

Creating new support for modernizing multipurpose senior centers including a plan to use the skills and services of older individuals in pain and unpaid

Assisted living is a fairly new and unique part of the long term care continuum of services. The goal of assisted living is to maximize the independence of older adults while living in a homelike environment. This paper will provide an overview of assisted living facilities including the number of facilities and residents, costs, services, and growth expectations. Challenges with oversight and regulations will be discussed as well as solutions to the problem. Challenges and solutions for staffing and training issues will also be discussed. The paper will also highlight “In Loving Hands Assisted Living” which is a local assisted living facility that I called and visited to aid in my research. I will give an overview of the

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.

Types and number of staff that this facility needs, and the rationale for this. How these needs differ in facilities that attend to different long-term care populations

This Skilled nursing facilities provide two distinct types of care for residents that are a long-term care for older residents with irreversible functional and cognitive deficits and sub-acute care for patients who require a short admission to complete their rehabilitation and to regain their functional strength before returning to their independent living.

Our agency assists low income seniors living on fixed incomes with mental health services. Our services include screenings for depression, dementia, and early onset of Alzheimer’s. We also provide mental health counseling services for grieving widows and work towards reconnecting individuals with support services in the community.

six full time residents and has a meager online presence consisting of only a website. The owners have recently bought another house with the goal of creating an additional adult family home and will soon be in need of six residents and at least four employees. Their current marketing strategies consist

The Long-Term Care Act was to benefit and work with seniors to improve their overall well-being. The Long-Term Care Homes Act guarantees to help residents living within the long-term care system to receive dependable, high-quality, and safe care for the residents. It is often common for seniors to adjust when placed in long-term care as this is a new and challenging transition for the senior and their families. The commonplace goal is to have a long-term care home environment where residents feel comfortable and at home, where residents are treated with the respect they deserve, and have the proper supports and services that cherish to their particular needs for their overall health and well-being. These services are physical and mental health related services- especially one that relates to the Community Worker Program such as Community and Social Workers that are crucial in a senior’s life often.

Sunrise Senior Living Inc. is one of the top firms in the rapidly growing long-term care industry. They provided a number of services for senior citizens including assisted living, meals, transportation, housekeeping, and licensed and highly skilled nurses for certain residents who require 24 hour care. The company was started in 1981 in Fairfax, Virginia by married couple Paul and Terry Klaassen who had a vision of creating alternative senior living options that emphasize quality of life. They have started what is now the most recognized company in the industry boasting innovative products and services

Long-term care healthcare delivery will be a great/popular option for many of these senior citizens. The long-term care healthcare delivery system falls within the continuum of care. The continuum of care is a series of heath care services that are provided to a great number of older adults who are in need of them throughout the course of their life/older life. The care ranges from: personal care, custodial care, restorative care, skill nursing care, and sub acute care (Shi & Singh, 2012). Different providers work together within the continuum to provide the right care to those in need. The continuum of care, as stated in Long Term Care: Managing Across the Continuum, is “comprehensive, integrated, and client-oriented”(Pratt, 2010). All the services offered should be client-based and cater to the client’s needs and suitable care. The client should be able to obtain services when it is needed from the provider, making it comprehensive. All the different long-term care providers should be interconnected between one another, because their goal is all the same, which is to care for the client’s needs. The continuum of care consists of: nursing facilities, sub acute care, assisted living, residential care, elderly housing, and a variety of community-based services (Pratt, 2010). All these different providers work together to care for the individuals within the health care industry, creating the continuum and making it integrated. As the future progresses and a great amount of

Alongside these nursing aids, our organization offers health concierge services to clients in their own comforts at home. Among the services we provide to our clients include Companion Care, which is designed to meet the needs of the elderly, Respite Care for patients recovering from illness, Jet Care geared towards the traveling customers, and Home Care that is focused on home-based care delivery. I have served in Home Care of La Jolla since its creation in 2002. The interest to offer a more customized and a need-based service to special groups in the society is the main reason for concentrating in the long-term care industry.

The long-term healthcare system has an infrastructure that is unfriendly and difficulty to navigate. With a growing number of frail older people living in the United States, the pressure to find a more affordable way to care for them will mount. Nearly 12 million people need some form of long-term care (LTC) and half are over age 65 (Wilber, 2014, Class Session 2). As mentioned in the article “Waiting in the Dark with Dad,” a large percentage of American healthcare costs fund medical procedures and medications to keep terminally ill people 65 and older alive (Lopez, 2014, p. 1). Steve Lopez experienced this with his 85-year-old father, Tony, who lived in a nursing home that was a place meant to keep his heart beating, but not actually improve his health and well-being. This is the harsh reality of the long-term care industry that many have faced, including experts in the field such as Dr. Robert Kane, author of It Shouldn’t Be This Way: The Failure of Long-Term Care. Long-term services and supports (LTSS) are supposed to maximize the quality of care and the quality of life for the individual (Kane and West, 2005, p. 169). When that focus is lost, it is the responsibility of healthcare professionals, like myself, to bring that issue back to the forefront of policy making.

We find that there are currently staffing shortages and the lack of long-term care facilities to compete with the growing number of senior citizen in our country (Williams, Nowak & Scoby, 2016). With these issues we find that each professional who assist within the field of geriatric care such as advocates and leadership, share a particular part in making a safe environment with adequate accommodations for seniors. There are differences in the leadership and advocacy perspective in senior care, but they both result in the common goal of a meaningful life for seniors daily.

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”

“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.