it explains how week one reading changes my concept of long term care. The essay will provide two examples of current events related to long-term care and how it has changed. The paper will focus on examples of current events related to long-term care‚ and how might these examples increase awareness. This paper will explain what are three long-term care populations evident in my local community and if I was aware of these evident. Long term care is a health and social service there to provides services
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Continuum of Long-Term Health Care Lisa Lewis HCS/310 August 9‚ 2010 John Dean The Continuum of Long-Term Health Care Health care is a fascinating industry. So many types of care are included within the industry. Health care can be very broad or very specific. Health care is also comprised of different types of health care. One specific sector is long-term health care. Long-term care plays a huge role in the health care continuum. This paper will define long-term care and a
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longer up to or over the age of 80. During the golden years‚ individuals will require different types of long-term care services to live out the rest of their life comfortably. Depending upon a consumer’s medical condition or needs‚ several options of long-term care or nursing facilities may be needed. Long-term services can be broken down into several categories. Some services for the elderly are nursing facilities‚ subacute
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like the treatments and prevention of health problems‚ coverage is often lacking when it comes to long-term care needs. Long term care insurance helps make up the difference where health insurance coverage lacks when facing the high costs of items like personal or custodial care. This includes services that are performed in a home setting or in a facility like a nursing home. Overview Long term care insurance reimburses the owner of the policy for daily care services when they can no longer perform
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Long-term care is a growing concept that is constantly evolving to adapt to our diverse communities. Due to the aging of the baby boomers group‚ there will be a rapid increase of individuals in need of long-term care in the years to come (Dana & Olson‚ 2007). Therefore‚ it is essential to expedite the process of improvement in the long-term care field to better accommodate these rising demands. In order to ensure a long-term care facility is adequately prepared for the future‚ there are many different
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eating fish in a regular diet has more benefits. The article explains that the Harvard Women’s Health study says people that eat fish once a week had a 42 percent less likelihood to develop macular degeneration that was age related than people that ate fish less than once a month. Macular degeneration is an inflammatory disease and fish has the omega 3 fatty acid that reduces the inflammation (Rabin‚ 2011). The study was based on 39‚876 women that were in their mid-life which was 99 percent of these
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happen when someone takes a blow to the head‚ face or neck. Without proper treatment concussions can have major consequences that can last for a lifetime. Students should stay off the field for a longer period of time because it can cause short and long term consequences. Back in article three it says that a concussion can cause headaches‚ dizziness‚ depression‚ permanent brain damage and sometimes even death. Studies show that you are more likely to get another concussion in your sport once you already
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Total Quality in Fast Food MGT 449 2011 Total Quality in Fast Food In the world of fast food restaurants product and service quality are what make or break a chain. Both Wendy’s and McDonald’s have spent years and millions of dollars to get the level of quality that they produce just right. The key to the success of both of these fast food giants is total quality management. While they both may share some marketplaces‚ they both use different processes to get the results that they are looking
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Outsourcing in the Long and Short term Outsourcing is defined by Roberts as turning over to others the provision of goods and services that the firm formerly provided for itself (Roberts‚ 2007 p 191). Organizations seek to outsource for the purpose of cost reduction. This cost can been seen in terms of time‚ finances‚ products and service costs. (Tayaouva‚ 2012) Child explains that Outsourcing can offer a number of advantages in principal but in practice it can be seen to provide some disadvantages
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Callum Bourke Describe the long term effects of exercise on the Muskoskeletal system and energy systems. (P3) Describe the long term effects of exercise on the cardiovascular and respiratory systems. (P4) Cardiovascular System Cardiac Hypertrophy The heart increases in size and volume; this allows more blood to enter the heart allowing a greater amount of oxygenated blood to be pumped to the working muscles. To withstand the large amount of blood‚ the left ventricle becomes thicker
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