Management (2002). This provides a guideline for case management and consists of assessment‚ planning‚ facilitation‚ and advocacy; all of which are core functions of the clinical case manager. This case management plan is focused towards frail‚ elderly clients who have suffered a stroke and will be returning home upon release from their hospitalization‚ having care provided to them primarily by a family member. You often hear the word acute when physicians refer to a stroke‚ this implies that
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What Could be Done to Improve the Lives of the Elderly One of the solutions is‚ that the government should make the right move and start supporting elderly financially‚ as for helping balancing the huge numbers of dissatisfied senior citizens in Lithuania. We all know‚ that after a person retires from his work‚ he is no longer capable of making his own money. A person becomes dependable from the governmental income‚ which is nerve racking‚ because the daily needs are far more expensive than
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FALL PREVENTION ON ELDERLY PATIENTS IN A SURGICAL WARD There are various reasons why elderly patients in a surgical ward may fall‚ injuring them even more almost instantly‚ the issue of patient’s safety and security have been the primary concern of most hospital and clinical institution but elders do fall unpredictably. Elderly patients at the age of 65 falling is a serious problem‚ medical professionals has realized the needs to develop a plan to purposely prevent such incidents from happening
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Elderly Abuse Rodney R. Jones Columbia Southern University Elderly Abuse Elderly abuse is an important issue of today in our society. In the United States of America we treat our seniors with a great deal of disrespect. In most civilized countries seniors are treated to a higher standard. They are often looked at as people of wisdom in most families of other countries. The American people are more concerned about self than about those who raised them and paid their way to through college. And
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THE ELDERLY SHOULDN’T LIVE IN OLD FOLKS’ HOMES Lately the trend of sending the elderly to the old folks’ home is increasing tremendously from time to time especially those who are bed-ridden and weak due to sickness. Moving an elderly parent into a residential care or old folks’ home is a major decision and not one to be taken lightly. There are financial‚ welfare and psychological aspects to be considered and very often it is a last resort. Sending elderly parents to a care or nursing home
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Graded Unit Planning Stage Kirsty Lafferty I am currently on placement at the Fred Paton Day Care Centre which is a Centre for elderly service users. My role in the facility is to provide support / assistance when required and to help engage service users in activities that are provided by the staff within the organisation. At present I am working with a 62 year old male who has recently suffered from a bad stroke and another recent mini stroke which
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Description Within my college course iam doing my placement in an elderly care home. The unit I’m in tends to be more frail elderly clients. Due to the data protection act 1998 I will be changing names of the clients nursing staff and location to safeguard their confidentially. It is also complies with the NMC 2012 “you must respect people’s right to confidentiality” (NMC2012). Within the home there is an elderly gentleman called Alec‚ Alec has osteoarthritis and uses a wheelchair his mobility
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Role opportunities for nurses in Community Care in elderly Community nurses focus on • Health promotion • Disease prevention • Wellness (Westley & Fletcher‚ 2004 cited in Stanhope & Lancaster‚ 2004). To achieve these goals‚ nurses are involved in • Client and community education • Counselling • Advocacy • Care management (Westley & Fletcher‚ 2004 cited in Stanhope & Lancaster‚ 2004). Health promotion: Community nurses may inform health promotion strategies according to individual
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8 Ways to Combat Elderly Depression (#6 Will Surprise You) Depression among the elderly is not uncommon. In fact‚ WebMD states that late-life depression affects about six million Americans age 65 and older. But only 10% receive treatment for depression. One of the core problems with elderly depression is the illness goes untreated because depression symptoms manifest differently for the elderly. Anxiety and depression is often confused with other symptoms. This stems from medications and illness
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hearing problem and could not communicate in the first languageproperly‚ so the non-verbal communication plays a role. Caris-Verhallen et al (1999‚ p.809) state that the non-verbal communication becomes important whencommunicating with the elderly people who develop a hearing problem. Hollman et al (2005‚ p31) suggests some effective ways to maximize the communication 5 with hearing impairment people such as always gains the person’s attentionbefore speaking‚ visible
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