Geriatric care management

Long term care facilities continuously undergo strengths and weaknesses. Nursing homes, being one of the most popular choices for long-term care. A major strength of a nursing home is the mental health services commonly equipped to deal with conditions such as, dementia, depression, Alzheimer’s and many others. In addition, the social support patients receive in order to cope with stress related events. In other words, social support in a nursing home is viewed as a sense of community. Seniors…

this does not change with increasing age. Nevertheless, many elderly people throughout our country are left neglected. This unfortunate fact has a profound impact on those who have given to humanity throughout their lives, and we have an obligation to care for the people who have given to us, to the best of…

back to isolation. When a client feels isolated from the rest of the world, depressive symptoms may occur. Some elderly clients live away from their home and do not see family often. So this is a great tool. Technology also benefits nurses and health care professionals by bettering their understanding of the mental illness. There are many great resources online that provide accurate and reliable information. Technology is always advancing and new resources are constantly being developed. As time…

Isolation Within the Elderly: The Melting Candles A simple match lit the wick. Light born into the room. Aglow, it warmed the premises with its appearance anew. Fragrance frolicked to and fro from each corner of the room. With the light, all could see through and through. A trickle of wax dropped here and there with a similar loss of a few stares. Melting away, the blazing brilliance began to dull and the fiery fragrance escaped the home. Inhabitants, unknowingly, left the house with not even…

3.3.2 Market role in the home care services in urban China Market is increasingly involved in the direct services in China. In elderly care practice in urban China, some international policies referring to marketisation of care (i.e. contracting out services to private providers, cash for care, tax concessions, subsidies, etc.), have been applied for trials to encourage the participation of various social resources (Jing, 2009). For example, driven by the ideas of ‘small state’ and ‘indirect…

My reason for getting into Medical Office Administration would have to be, because of Josephine Caballero my grandmother. She is why I would love to get a job working in Geriatrics A branch of medicine that deals with the problems and diseases of old age and aging people. My grandmother was a woman I loved dearly, however she was very sick and crippled she relied on a wheelchair. She became paralyzed at the age of 34 and developed Rheumatoid Arthritis she remained in mobile till she passed at…

emergencies in a health or social care setting. M3 - discuss health, safety or security concerns arising from a specific incident or emergency in a health or social care setting. D2 - justify responses to a particular incident or emergency in a health or social care setting. Understand priorities and responses in dealing with incidents and emergencies - This assignment will look at incidents and emergencies that can happen in a health and social care setting. Within my assignment I…

On September 30, 2015, me and five of my other fellow students that are in the generic nursing program at CUNY York college, were given the opportunity to do a presentation at Selfhelp center located in Bayside, New York. We arrived at Selfhelp at 8:45am with our Health Assessment Professor Dr. Amicucci accompanying us and began our presentation around 9:00am, on hypertension. I remember that a total of 15 people showed interest in attending our presentation and wanted to learn new information…

ways in which the health of older adults is different from other age groups. First, they often have multiple health problems at once, which can be difficult to diagnose the actual conditions and provide the proper care. Next, especially since many doctors are not specialists in geriatrics, it may be hard to determine if a symptom is related to a disease or normal aging of the body and overdiagnosis often occurs. Thirdly, because of how the body changes as one ages, different types of medications…

that is causing harm or distress to an older person is elder abuse. There are many kinds of abuse like it can be physical, sexual, psychological, financial, emotional, neglect and also loss of respect and dignity (WHO, 2015). I work in an aged care facility. While looking after those old and vulnerable people I never come across any kind of physical or sexual or other kinds of abuse. But, neglect issues are frequently seen in the facility where staff unintendedly or due…