Long Term Care Essay

I worked in a long term care facility for three years before going to an internal medicine office. When starting right away I noticed, with my medication passes, that most of the residents were on some type on medication for depression or a mood disorder. I started to think that it must be a common diagnosis for most of these patients because of being in a nursing facility instead of living at home, in which they had been staying most of their adult lives. I then began to think of some of the residents

You mentioned two of the main payers for the over 65 population, Medicaid and Medicare. I work in long-term care (LTC) and deal with regulations governing Medicaid and Medicare reimbursement daily. Currently, at least in North Carolina, our skilled nursing facility (SNF) Medicaid rates were frozen at the 12/31/14 CMI rate. That means for over a year now SNFs have been paid at the same rate, but expenses have not frozen. This rate freeze has placed financial pressures on SNFs and presented them

two-year project which aimed to learn the “African-American’s long-term care preferences and choices”. She started that research with a very systematic recruiting plan to capture a broad range of experiences in “kin care”, “in-home services” and “nursing home” settings; and conducted interviews with the elders and caregivers. Despite the recruitment done through maximum variation sampling method to capture “full range of long-term care needs and the ways to meet these needs among the elders”, she

Long Term Care: A Directional Strategies Report for Interim Healthcare, Inc. Group 6: Jessica Aho, Roger Brenz, Dale Bunton, Kadigah Chess MHA5010 Strategic Health Care Planning Instructor: Matthew Brooks Abstract This document will explore the directional strategies of Interim HealthCare Inc., a long term care facility located in Sunrise, Florida. Our team will analyze the existing stated directional strategies (mission, vision, values, and ethics statement) given by Interim HealthCare

the time we had little choice but to wait to receive my long-term care. My passion for a career in healthcare stemmed from my positive experiences with the practitioners during those years. Growing up in the East Germantown section of Philadelphia, health disparities were prevalent, reinforcing the drastic need for dentists who offer low-cost quality care. Once, without the means to pay or access to a dentist, my mother delayed seeking care when she had a toothache. It was so sad to see the pain

Can I Get There From Here? Long-term Care (LTC) in Ontario. 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? You see, there is a severe shortage in LTC beds in Ontario and hospital administrators are becoming increasingly aggressive in their quest to make beds

cultures and backgrounds who need long-term care. Further, the argument that consumer directed services are not appropriate for elderly persons with disabilities or for individuals with cognitive impairments has been debunked, with studies showing many elderly individuals with disabilities and persons with cognitive impairments can express daily preferences for care and can benefit from consumer directed programs. As a provider of consumer directed care in home care packages, we are aware of the changes

Introduction Individuals living in Long Term Care facilities are among the most vulnerable of populations during a disaster. Many lessons have been learned from devastations like Hurricane Katrina, Rita, and Wilma that occurred in 2005 in regards to the disaster preparedness levels of Long Term Care Facilities (LTC). In 2006 The Department of Health and Human Services (DHSS) found that while majority of Nursing Homes did meet federal regulations for emergency plans and training at the time, many

Background Lily lived in a long-term care home for almost two years. She and her husband Arthur have been married for 52 years and have had a very close relationship. They didn’t have any children. Lily’s husband would visit her in the care home twice a day. Over the course of a few months Lily’s condition began to deteriorate. She wouldn’t accept food and fluids and she died peacefully with her husband present. Arthur had a memorial service for Lily, but few friends came. Arthur had stopped visiting

though senior care includes the increasing of staff including geriatric nurses. This can be done by local long-term care facilities, partnering with community colleges in training nursing staff and staff having the ability to gain the necessary accreditation needed. Long-term care plans can become apart of the services which are provided within the community by social workers who are employed by the state. They can partner with case managers and their individuals to derive long-term care plans, and