Social Care Diamond

With the advancements in healthcare and people living longer lives America is facing a caregiver crisis, due to the growth of the aging population. Statistics show that the number of people 65 years and older is expected to rise 101% between 2000 and 2030, yet the number of family members who can provide care for these older adults is only expected to rise 25% (Gupta, 2015). This significant change in the population raises many questions, who will care for this group, how will their safety be ensured, how will the elderly travel, where will they live, will building structures need to change to allow easier access, will the government create a caregiver corps to check on the elderly who are isolated, and ultimately how does the government

In addition, Community Care Services provides much needed monitoring and support service to ensure the older person is able to live in their own home. They cover everything from community nursing, meals, domestic help, personal care, home modifications, transport and day therapies and support for people with cultural and identifiable needs, as well as for people with particular health conditions. For example, meals on wheels services provide a nutritional food, Vital Call service to help the aged people in an emergency case. Some of the ways may support the older people are get assistance with “home help”,

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.

| * Identified the minimum levels of care a vulnerable adult should be given in care homes

Effective way to look for the certain nursing home for your love ones can be very frustrating and time consuming. Although quality concerns in nursing home care still exists, persistent research and using different government references could eliminate the time and find the suitable care for your love one. However, penalties, accidents, and how it get solved, that occurs in every facility should be known to public for safety. Future studies in searching for the important factors of nursing care, especially for the quality of life for the elders, who are likely benefit from specific study, should be

There has been an increasingly large amount of awareness placed on the governments role in prevention and standards for the control of health care and communicable diseases. In this growing effort are provisions applying to long-term health and stipulations for proper treatment and care. Gradually, a shift from local community efforts to care for the elder has transferred to a prominent government role. Several committees have been created to assist with the implementation and over view of care and acts to instigate change. Amongst the major changes that have been set in place effecting long-term care, was the passage of the Social Security Act of 1935 and Medicaid insurance.

We can’t purport to have a national goal to “eliminate health disparities” and continue to accept the social inequities that come from such a major gap in wealth. If we hope to solve the pressing issues of eldercare, these inequities must be addressed head on now and in the future. Otherwise, those who are caregivers now may not have access to the care they will need in the future.

In Being Mortal, Atul Gawande painted a little depressing picture of the realities faced by the elderly in the US nowadays: declining health status, economic insecurity, and loss of independence. It seems once the older people move into nursing homes or assisted living facilities, they lose autonomy, dignity and privacy as the institutions are not able to fully individualize care. Even though the situation has been improving, it still shocks me to see how unhappy some of the elderly are in these circumstances. Realizing senior care facilities often fail to address all aspects of well-being, I would like to explore the issues of promoting both objective and subjective component in quality of care for the older people.

Care homes should provide a quality of service meeting the needs of the residents as in a normal setting. However, the institutionalised nature of the care has many negative impacts on the residents’ as they perceive it is as negative form of care and a service denying independence, autonomy, privacy, power and other principle of human rights. Elderly are abused and neglected in some care homes while large proportions of staff caring for them are untrained and incompetent in caring. Funding for elderly care is major issue, on one extreme elderly are being forced to pay for care and on the other local authorities struggle to manage service within their budget.#

Thus, a better healthcare policy for the older population may help to address their many health related problem and the financial burden. Implementing a populace health approach to health, which focuses on the interconnected conditions and aspects that influence the health of the older populations over their life course, recognize the systematic disparities in their forms of occurrence, and applies the knowledge to develop and implement policies to improve their health and to reduce health inequalities (Plouffe, 2003). With that, the Government can promote healthy aging that heightens the opportunities to improve and retain the seniors’ health, social wellbeing, independence and quality of

A variety of long-term care options are available to those who require more assistance. Assisted-living facilities, village concepts, and Continuing Care Retirement Communities (CCRCs) are all available options for seniors. Living in these residencies may address several other issues such as isolation, transportation, and mobility. These types of facilities focus on providing assistance with daily living activities for the elderly while still allowing them to be independent. Residents also have ample opportunities to socialize in common spaces such as dining rooms and living rooms. However, these facilities are often expensive and must be paid for privately. As a result, the option for living in these helping facilities may be out of reach for the elderly with a fixed income (Hash, Jurkowski, & Krout, 2015). Without these residential facilities as an option, aging adults with lower incomes who must remain in their homes may face challenges related to their health, mobility, and

Following secretary of state, John Reid’s statement in 2005 declaring that social care “should be about helping people maintain their independence, leaving them with control over their lives, and giving them real choice over their lives, including the services they use. Services must recognise the changing world, our changing attitudes and our ageing population”. This assignment will analyse the present affairs in the social care world and see if the UK has stepped closer to John Reid’s vision.

I work at the age care and disability service of the ACT in Canberra. Firstly, in the ACT age care service, the setting of its organisation mission is mainly focus on the quality of service deliver to elderly people. These services are ranging from quality caring, healthy eating, quality beddings, quality delivering of medications and healthy environment with quality cooling and warm systems that have been installed in the organisation facility. Its location is quite good for the residents and employees to come to work on time, and size is worthy to continuing in receiving funds from the government. It population is reasonable to be manage by both private and government. ACT Disability service, is a multifaceted area of social strategy, both because of its size, diversity of the target population and the variety of individuals, organisations and governments involved in service provision. Frequent major strategy changes over the last two years have added to the difficulty of determining who is responsible for what, and with what consequences this could bring. ACT Disability services, operate in home care, and facility care all these facilities have installed cooling and warming environment most appropriate for those having disability. Its purpose is to ensure that disability is not inability for those individuals these services are provide. Thus what the

As the ageing population and the demand for social care provision increases (ARK, 2010), the demand for informal caregiving is becoming an important concern for researchers and policy-makers. The 2011 consensus of Northern Ireland carried out by Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency indicates that out of a population of 1.8 million there are 213,980 informal carers in Northern Ireland, this figure is higher than any other UK jurisdiction; informal care includes looking after fail, ill or disabled family members, friends or partners (NIHRC, 2014). Research undertaken by the University of Leeds found that the economic value of unpaid care in Northern Ireland is at £4.4 billion (NIHRC, 2014). However care can no longer be taken for granted and this notion of the ‘care gap’ has been highlighted due to key demographic, epidemiological and social changes (Hodgkin, 2014). These changes that challenge the informal care system are the ageing population, changes in the family structure and the entry of women in the labour market (Hodgkin, 2014). In addition to demographic changes, there has been a significant body of research with growing interest in the concern for informal caregiver’s social, financial and emotional wellbeing (Hodgkin, 2014). Research findings suggest burnout and the heavy burden on families may lead to aggressive behaviors towards the elderly and even physical and mental abuse (ARK, 2010). The caregiver burden refers to the multi-dimensional challenges of

In Sweden it is the Local government responsibility for welfare services. It was from the 13th century that the first local legislation was seen as the responsibility of the local parish to take care of the poor (Bergmark & Minas, 2006, p.15). The Swedish health system for