Unit 40: Dementia Care P1: Describe types of dementia and common signs and symptoms. What is dementia? Dementia is a common condition that affects about 800‚000 people in the UK. Your risk of developing dementia increases as you get older‚ and the condition usually occurs in people over the age of 65. Dementia is a syndrome associated with an ongoing decline of the brain and its abilities. This includes problems with: memory loss thinking speed mental agility language understanding
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Health beliefs may be strongly tied to a person’s cultural background and spiritual or religious affiliation. Palliative care is the active holistic care of terminally ill patients which demands to maintain the quality of life addressing physical symptoms as well as emotional‚ spiritual and social needs. This very nature of the palliative care poses challenges to health care workers when addressing a culturally diverse population. Australia is the most multicultural country in the world where its
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Promptness of Care to Their Patients Walden University NURS 4005 Section 01‚ Topics in Clinical Nursing March 23‚ 2014 Nurses Improve on Promptness of Care to Their Patients Overview In reviewing the Nurse-Sensitive Quality Indicator Dashboard‚ the plan is to target patient satisfaction indicators and develop a nursing action plan based on best practices. The purpose of this paper is to analyze promptness of nurses in caring for their patients and discuss how best practices
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with younger children. Care Routine Introduction Care routines are the events that happen regularly throughout the day. They support the development of children in many ways. A good care routine will have blocks of uninterrupted time for children to develop their play. A good care routine will also provide a lot of time for interactions between carers and children‚ this is especially important‚ as a strong attachment is vital in a child’s first years of development. Care routines involve routines
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next of kin. Due to the severity of her wounds‚ the physician chose to begin medical procedures. 1. Define “standard of care.” How would appropriate “standard of care” be determined in this case? Standard of care is a diagnostic and treatment process that a clinician should follow for a certain type of patient‚ illness‚ or clinical circumstances. The appropriate standard of care to this patient would be to treat Sandra as in any other patient would be treated for a head injury. Medical staff should
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on families who try to care for their loved ones in their homes‚ lose sleep‚ jobs‚ relationships and time with their own children. The lose of productivity and monies is also astronomical. This informal type of care for the elderly is how the majority of the needs for the older generation are provided. The US-based National Alliance for Care giving offers much higher estimates. By their calculations‚ American family caregivers provide $257 billion in free care annually. Compare this
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Some researchers feel that our society has unrealistically demanded the health care system to maximize quality while lowering the costs of health care services. That if we demand this change‚ there is no way we are realistically considering the cost of health care. I understand that everyone wants to receive the best therapy without paying a large amount of money. When you think about this idea‚ this plan would take time to execute. One of the cons of living in a country like the United States is
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MANAGED CARE Managed health care is a system of health care delivery managed by a company aiming mainly at quality/value cost effective services provided to patients. It has been introduced with an intention to avoid paying for unessential facilities and services directly to physicians. It helps in forming an intermediate between patients and physicians in such a way that health insurance organizations pay the physicians from the premiums paid by patients to insurers for the services provided
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American household expenditure‚ health care took 5.1% in 1989‚ 5.3% in 1999 and 5.9% in 2008. According to Pipes (2010)‚ “In 2009‚ the United States spent 17.3% of its gross domestic product on healthcare‚ the highest in the world” (p. 23). In view of the statistics on the deteriorating healthcare system in the United States‚ the Obamacare was enacted in 2010. As Marcovici (2013) presents it‚ “The Obamacare‚ officially known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ‚ is a bill signed into law
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PREVENTATIVE CARE Community health centers offer preventive care to patients to help stop health problems before they start. CHCs comprehensive care often includes providing “dental‚ vision and behavioral health services‚ community-centered services and care integration - including health education and case management” (NCSL). Nearly three-quarters of children who are treated at CHCs receive all recommended immunizations by their second birthday. As of 2010‚ immunizations‚ physicals‚ and other
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