Long Term Care Healthcare Delivery

Nursing homes and assisted facility homes are all examples of long term care facilities. These facilities are usually targeting individuals who are of geriatric age or need around the clock care (mental health and physical health). The residents in these communities have access to individually-tailored levels of individual or group-centered activities, programs, and assistance whether it is with home or personal care. Long term care facilities are generally for those who are unable to manage independently in the community. Specific types of long-term services include nursing homes, hospice care, home health agencies, and residential care facilities. The goal of these programs is to make sure each patient has a safe and comforting environment

Long-term care assists individuals who cannot adequately perform their routine activities of daily living. These activities include dressing, bathing, walking, meal preparation, and taking medications ( Batnitzk,A.,Hayes,D.,& Vinall,P.E. 2014,(c. 5.1). These services are typically for clients over the age of 65 years old and is used to promote independence and security for those who cannot take care of their needs due to illness or debility (c.6.1). The type of provider will depend on the type of care a client needs. For instance, some elderly people that need help with food preparations or everyday activities will request to stay at home and have a family member take care of them. This is one way that long-term care is rendered but is unpaid. Another way is through nursing facilities, skilled nursing facilities and assisted living that will handle more complex or full-time

Long-term care can be defined as a broad set of paid and unpaid services for people who are mentally or physically disabled, or whose chronic illness places them in need of medical or personal assistance for long periods of time. “It is estimated that there are more than twelve million Americans of all ages whose mix of serious disability and chronic illness places them at the high risk for functional decline, hospitalization, or nursing home placement.” (Benjamin) Several different populations require long-term care services, and the needs of these populations vary. In addition to the elderly, many of the long-term care users are younger persons with physical disabilities; persons with developmental disabilities; and persons with chronic

Long term care facilities are first established under state licensing laws and, in most cases, a granted certification that there is a need for nursing home beds in a specific community. Medical professionals and support services providing care and related functions must also operate in the nursing home under the licensing, regulatory, and standards of practice governing their areas of specialty. In addition, each long-term care facility must establish their own policies and procedures for everyday operation to stay within their operating standards and legal limitations (Brady,

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

The Continuum of Care is the variety of health care services provided to numerous individuals who are in need of it. All the various Long Term Care providers work as a unit, helping an individual handle their disability with various health care amenities accessible. The Continuum of Care, as stated in Long Term Care: Managing Across the Continuum (2010), is “comprehensive, integrated, and client-oriented”. All the services offered should be client-based and cater to the client’s needs and suitable care. The client’s 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. Their goal 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. The continuum has many positive attributes, along with many barriers. The range of barriers are: poor transitions from Long Term Care setting to setting for the clients, the continuum is reimbursement-driven, it is fragmented and uncoordinated, it is under staffed with medical professionals, and there are major language and literacy problems.

Long-term care is a result of people having terminal conditions, disabilities, illnesses, injuries, or being elderly. The purpose of long-term care is to provide services to people and to aid people at a time in their lives when they cannot depend on themselves to maintain daily activities. There are many variations of long-term care available – such as home care, adult day care, and independent and assisted living, personal care facilities, nursing homes, and hospice.

Imagine that you are a patient in an hospital in Ontario - you have undergone acute care and are now ready to enter a Long-term care (LTC) facility for additional care. Now imagine that you have entered a complex maze, like the Waterloo County County Corn Maze, only much trickier. Why?

There have been two main drivers to the factors that have influenced long-term care. The first driver is the exponential increase in medicine and pharmacology. This has allowed more people to live longer by not suffering an annual winter disease decimation of their numbers and enabled them to live longer with chronic diseases. The second driver is federal funding either directly via reimbursement for services or indirectly via pension payments as well as direct funding for construction. These all create demand for facilities and services. More than any other factors it was both the proprietary construction funding of 1959 and OBRA that have structured the current long-term care environment.

The continuum of institutional long-term care is for patients whose needs are not adequately met in a more community-based setting. It is for individuals who need more dependency. There are two ends of the continuum of institutional long-term care spectrum. On the one end there are the individuals that may only need basic personal or custodial care (Shi & Singh, 2015, p. 399). An example of personal and custodial care can include help with walking, bladder training, or just helping with bathing. On the other end there are the individuals that may need more round the clock care with nursing or specialized services along with the basic needs (Shi & Singh, 2015, p. 399).

Health care is a fascinating industry. So many types of care are included within the industry. Health care can be very broad or very specific. Health care is also comprised of different types of health care. One specific sector is long-term health care. Long-term care plays a huge role in the health care continuum. This paper will define long-term care and a continuum as well as discuss the services provided and how these services fit in the continuum of care, the resources that go along with long-term care and how it contributes to overall health care resources, and how long-term care services

This paper will review the many aspects of long-term care problems and many challenges there are within Long-Term care. We will look at rising costs within long-Term Care, patient abuse, will look at the quality of life, shortages of nurses and demand that the elderly are putting on the medical field. The type of care that Long-Term Care had been giving to its patients and the changes within Long-Term Care.

The realization of such services should be supported with adequate funding. Again, the stakeholders of the organization should be the major contributors towards the long term care service provision funding. The continuum care is crucial in the sense that it ensures that the care of the patients continues amid all the challenges and at all times. In case of financial challenges, the government ought to lend a helping hand to assist fund the important services (Pratt, 2010). Other private organizations with keen interest in healthcare provision

This article is about the connection between the nursing staffing and the quality of life in nursing homes. The author discusses details about long-term care settings in particular nursing homes, the quality of care that is being provided, and the quality of caregivers (Shin, 2013). First, the author explains the need for long-term care settings. Almost 16,100 nursing homes care are open for 1.7 million seniors. With the rising population in the United States and the baby boomers are expecting to hit the retirement age the need for long-term care settings will be an essential to the health care industry. It is projected by 2030 approximately 70 million people will be between the age of 65 or older while 5 million people will be 85 years or older (Shin, 2013). This article raises concerns about the quality of care that is being delivered. Most of the elders are interested in the quality of care rather than just living in an uncomfortable environment. Elders, who transition to a nursing home experience a huge time of their day alone, which makes it harder to take care of themselves. Many long-term care residents face a strict and a loss of privacy, which can cause distress and increase the risk of illness. Seniors expect a standard of care in

Long-term facilities are experiencing an increase in residents requiring services to live as independently as possible (Williams & Torrens, 2008). The first factor affecting long-term care systems is developing and maintaining treatment plans for their residents. Residents in long-term care require different care plans and the facility has to ensure each is completed accordingly. The next factor is the increase in patients that require long-term care. By the year 2030, the long-term care system is expected to grow due to the aging population (Eakins, 2016). This will require providers in long-term care utilize resources effectively. The final factor affecting this system is financial and payment policies. Some health plans for short skilled care stays, but coverage declines the longer the patient stays in a long term facility (Williams & Torrens, 2008). This requires a proactive approach to ensure payment for services is received