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Based on the information provided in Appendix A, regarding the XYZ Corporation, the type of assistance that will prove to be the most valuable is ARRA – Grants to Health Center Programs. The program’s objectives are to increase the number of uninsured and underserved individuals access to…
The problem with caring for a family member is that they do not have as much money as before. The only money coming into the house might be benefit payment and that has to cover everything. In Ann’s case the family has lost her income.…
1. Explain how sharing own home may create a sense of power imbalance between an individual, self and key people.…
The decision of whether or not to place an aging parent into a long-term care facility, or to try and to keep them in their own home or yours is one that many American families are facing each day. Factors in dealing with this decision are too numerous to count but we will address a few of them in the following paper, like the financial aspects, psychosocial, and meeting the overall needs of our ever aging parents.…
make a booklet to help inform a new member of staff about parental patnership. in your booklet list the values of parental partnership in their child's early learning. explain why it is so important both in the setting and also to promote home learning and also explain why it is important for settings to have clear policies on how this should be done.…
Long-term care provides a certain level of medical care that requires the experience of a skilled physician to diagnose and treat multiple chronic conditions that are generally associated with elderly patients. Long-term care provides a variety of services to individuals who suffer from chronic illness or terminal condition, including people who live with a disability and are not adequately capable of taking care of themselves over the course of an extended period of time, without assistance. The services that long-term care provides include medical and non-medical care for people who require constant assistance with physical health from injury to frailness of old age, personal emotional needs, or mental problems. Long term care could be provided at home, in the community, assisted living facilities, or nursing homes. The purpose of a Nursing Home is to care for individuals who are not able to be cared for at home. Most long-term care is meant to assist people with any support services or daily activities, such as dressing, bathing or using the restroom.…
Slavery has tremendously influenced the pathway of American history. During the Antebellum period, slavery provided a firm basis for the economy of the United States, governed politics, and eventually led to the war between the North and South. People in bondage were forced to work and live in unsanitary conditions, made to feel like livestock as they were bought and sold in the infamous slave market, and were scrutinized and ridiculed for their heritage. Slavery was implemented by the men and women of American colonization to take over the harvesting process of crops in the South, but caused the majority of American citizens to refocus their moral compass and choose whether or not to support this peculiar institution. Tension regarding the…
Home care also known as domiciliary care is a supportive care provided in the patient’s home by licensed healthcare professionals. Home care is used to provide for the needs of the patients allowing them to remain living at home, regardless of age or disability. Caregivers assist the individual with such daily tasks as bathing, eating, cleaning and preparing meals. Terminally ill patients are inclusive of hospice care which in turn helps the patients recovering from surgery or major illness. It also comprises of rehabilitative assistance. Most patients are more relaxed and comforted in their own home or a hub like setting rather than a hospital. Consequently, home care continues to advance in techniques and guidelines along with popularity. Since 1980s, with the advent diagnostic and treatment planning this technique was introduced to reduce healthcare…
One of the regulatory agencies that are extremely active in the way long term care is delivered is the Center for Medicare and Medicaid services (CMS). According to (Stevenson & Grabowski (2006), these services creates and maintains federal regulations for long-term care facilities that choose to accept residents that depend on Medicare and Medicaid benefits as a form of payment. Federal regulations affecting long-term care include those rules governing the certification of nursing homes and home health organizations to receive payment under Medicare or Medicaid. These conditions of participation are established by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), and in the case of nursing homes, largely stem from the OBRA reforms. These reforms included a federally mandated uniform resident assessment form to be used in all nursing homes as a basis for planning, the creation of new conditions of participation on resident’s rights and quality of…
Guidance for the Administration on Aging to include training to prevent and screen for elder abuse for the states, area agencies on aging, and service providers. The act pushes to provide consistency when dealing with elder abuse situations. It updates definitions of adult protective services, exploitation or financial abuse, elder justice, and preventing fraud and abuse. To prevent fraud and abuse, the act supports the Medicare program to train senior volunteers. Ombudsman, under this act, are allowed to serve any resident in long-term care facilities and to guarantee privacy, advocacy, following of the client after discharge to the home, and identification and resolution of a perceived problem.With this act, ADRCs improve coordination with the area agencies on aging and community-based entities to provide informational resources on home and community-based services for people who might be at risk for institutional settings, or are already living in a institutional setting. ADRCs are to be held at a consistent level with current practices…
Even though Mrs. Davis has a pension from her husband and social security, additional expenses related to the most recent hospitalization could add financial burden to her and her daughters.…
In home health and hospice, services are covered 100% by Medicare and care is taken place in the patient’s home. Medicare covers medications, supplies, skilled nursing visits, hospice care aides, social workers, and chaplain and bereavement services in hospice. Home…
The cost of providing long-term care, particularly institutional care, has increased dramatically. In the nation, long-term care has become a major component of the budget, with national public expenditures totaling $58 billion in 1996 (Burwell, 1996). About $2billion of the U.S.’s budget is allocated to long-term care. Combined with high costs is a criticism that the system of long-term care is biased towards delivering care in the Nursing home setting, despite older people’s documented preferences for in-home care. Keeping a family member at home who is in need of care raises a variety of concerns in addition to the basic logistics. It means trusting a stranger to have total and virtually unsupervised control over your family member. In an assisted-living facility, even if supervision is lax, there is some sense of accountability and oversight that is absent in a home care arrangement. Contacting with an agency might offer some of this oversight, but it would make the proposition very expensive, and even then, the supervision would be cursory at best, although the agency would provide some reassurance of backup services and prior screening. In addition to safety and freedom from abuse, there are also fears about…
This policy brief discusses the four principal changes made to Medicaid eligibility by the welfare reform legislation:…