Continuum Of Care Research Paper
Understanding Continuum of Care Service
Long term continuum care: the continuum of care includes all levels of health care and personal care service available. It is normally defined as all levels of housing, supportive, and health care services available to a person in a given locality.
The senior housing and services industry uses specific terms to refer to the various levels of service and care. If you’re not familiar with those terms, it may be confusing for you to understand what you need. These definitions should help. Please understand that these are general guidelines and there are variations within individual facilities.
Independent Living: Independent living may be something as simple as a housing complex for seniors, or might …show more content…
be one level in a retirement community. Independent living includes residential homes, apartments, condominiums, townhouses, and subsidized senior housing. Generally, residents take care of all their own needs including meal preparation, housekeeping and transportation.
Residents must be independent. Use of a cane, walker, or wheelchair is fine, if the resident can take care of his or her needs without assistance.
Residents may have occasional memory problems or forgetfulness, as long as there is not a consistent pattern of memory loss and the resident is not a safety risk to him/herself or others.
Retirement Community: A retirement community provides independent-living housing plus services for older adults.
The community generally owns the housing and rents to residents. Accommodations are usually an apartment, townhouse, cottage, or patio home. The community usually handles all grounds keeping and maintenance of the community. A community service usually has a package such as: meals in a community dining room, scheduled transportation, security, housekeeping, and planned activities, and even hair dressers. This service is only if you are able to take care of most of you own needs with little assistance like using a walker, cane or even a wheel chair is …show more content…
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Assisted Living: assisted living communities serve people who are no longer able to live in their own homes or apartments because of physical frailty or mental confusion, but do not need as much care as is provided in a nursing facility. The buildings are generally very “home-like” in appearance while providing services and staffing to assist residents 24 hours a day. Assisted living communities are for the frail older person who is impaired and needs 24-hour monitoring or assistance with activities of daily living, such as dressing, bathing, and meal preparation and medication reminders. Accommodations are generally a small apartment or a single bedroom with a bathroom. Three meals a day are provides, housekeeping and laundry, and planned activities.
Skilled Care and Nursing Factory: a skilled nursing facility provides medical, nursing, social and rehabilitative services for older persons that require 24-hour nursing care and supervision.
A physician's order is required for admission to a nursing facility. The staff is available to assist residents with their activities of daily living (dressing, bathing, meals); however, residents are encouraged to do as much for themselves as they can, to help them maintain their own independence. Many nursing facilities offer Alzheimer’s, hospice and respite care.
In the United Sates continuum of care service is, home health, hospice care, assisted living, rehabilitation, and skilled nursing, all these are great programs to help the people that are in need of assistance, the hospice care is where they come in and take care of your loved one when they do not have but a few days to live or they move you to Hospice unit where they keep the patients as comfortable as possible.
Why is long-term care one of the greatest challenges facing the health care delivery system
today?
Because of the great number of adults now reaching 65 and retirement age, as well as reaching the time in life when medical problems increase. Many seniors also live alone and may need help at home as they age, and most of these elderly people have children that have moved away because of out of state jobs. Some have medical problems where the need help with meals and physical care. Most old people do not want to leave their home that they have lived in for the most of their lives, but living on a limited income, they cannot pay their taxes or mortgages.
The people are living longer and longer instead of dying at an early age so this is putting our state in a crunch, because there are so many elderly that need some assistance now that the state has to tighten up on how many hours each person can have for care.
http://leadingagecolorado.org/ConsumerInfoLTCC.asp
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090509193441AAqddJV
Long term continuum care: the continuum of care includes all levels of health care and personal care service available. It is normally defined as all levels of housing, supportive, and health care services available to a person in a given locality.
The senior housing and services industry uses specific terms to refer to the various levels of service and care. If you’re not familiar with those terms, it may be confusing for you to understand what you need. These definitions should help. Please understand that these are general guidelines and there are variations within individual facilities.
Independent Living: Independent living may be something as simple as a housing complex for seniors, or might …show more content…
be one level in a retirement community. Independent living includes residential homes, apartments, condominiums, townhouses, and subsidized senior housing. Generally, residents take care of all their own needs including meal preparation, housekeeping and transportation.
Residents must be independent. Use of a cane, walker, or wheelchair is fine, if the resident can take care of his or her needs without assistance.
Residents may have occasional memory problems or forgetfulness, as long as there is not a consistent pattern of memory loss and the resident is not a safety risk to him/herself or others.
Retirement Community: A retirement community provides independent-living housing plus services for older adults.
The community generally owns the housing and rents to residents. Accommodations are usually an apartment, townhouse, cottage, or patio home. The community usually handles all grounds keeping and maintenance of the community. A community service usually has a package such as: meals in a community dining room, scheduled transportation, security, housekeeping, and planned activities, and even hair dressers. This service is only if you are able to take care of most of you own needs with little assistance like using a walker, cane or even a wheel chair is …show more content…
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Assisted Living: assisted living communities serve people who are no longer able to live in their own homes or apartments because of physical frailty or mental confusion, but do not need as much care as is provided in a nursing facility. The buildings are generally very “home-like” in appearance while providing services and staffing to assist residents 24 hours a day. Assisted living communities are for the frail older person who is impaired and needs 24-hour monitoring or assistance with activities of daily living, such as dressing, bathing, and meal preparation and medication reminders. Accommodations are generally a small apartment or a single bedroom with a bathroom. Three meals a day are provides, housekeeping and laundry, and planned activities.
Skilled Care and Nursing Factory: a skilled nursing facility provides medical, nursing, social and rehabilitative services for older persons that require 24-hour nursing care and supervision.
A physician's order is required for admission to a nursing facility. The staff is available to assist residents with their activities of daily living (dressing, bathing, meals); however, residents are encouraged to do as much for themselves as they can, to help them maintain their own independence. Many nursing facilities offer Alzheimer’s, hospice and respite care.
In the United Sates continuum of care service is, home health, hospice care, assisted living, rehabilitation, and skilled nursing, all these are great programs to help the people that are in need of assistance, the hospice care is where they come in and take care of your loved one when they do not have but a few days to live or they move you to Hospice unit where they keep the patients as comfortable as possible.
Why is long-term care one of the greatest challenges facing the health care delivery system
today?
Because of the great number of adults now reaching 65 and retirement age, as well as reaching the time in life when medical problems increase. Many seniors also live alone and may need help at home as they age, and most of these elderly people have children that have moved away because of out of state jobs. Some have medical problems where the need help with meals and physical care. Most old people do not want to leave their home that they have lived in for the most of their lives, but living on a limited income, they cannot pay their taxes or mortgages.
The people are living longer and longer instead of dying at an early age so this is putting our state in a crunch, because there are so many elderly that need some assistance now that the state has to tighten up on how many hours each person can have for care.
http://leadingagecolorado.org/ConsumerInfoLTCC.asp
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090509193441AAqddJV