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Long-Term Care
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An umbrella term that may refer to a range of services that address the health, personal care, psychoemotional, and social needs of persons with some degree of difficulty in caring for themselves.
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What services can Long-Term care include?
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- Meals on wheels
- Homemaker services - Parish nurse programs - Home health - Rehabilitation outpatient - Community mental health services - Senior citizen centers - Community-based senior renewal programs - Respite - Day care of elders - Hospice - Acute care rehabilitation or skilled nursing facility - Assisted living, group homes, or adult foster homes - Long-term rehabilitation center - Nursing home - Inpatient psychiatric unit |
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Gagekeepers
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Person you have to go through for request. Not Constent. Can negotiate with them.
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Case Mangement
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Usually a nurse who deals with a certain population to make sure they get good care.
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Pace Program
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Program of all inclusive care for the elderly.
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Palliative Care
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An approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing hte problem associated with life-threatening illness, through the prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification and impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and other problems, physical, psychosocial, and spiritual. Goals of this care are not curative, but for comfort. Not for just the terminally ill.
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Hospice Care
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A type of palliative care and is usually delivered at the home by a team of trained professionals who address the needs of the patient and the entire family.
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