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    The third largest source of medical insurance in the United States is Medicaid. This program makes for affordable health care for those who are unable to support of afford the costs of it. Medicaid covers millions of low income individuals. Since it is a government funded and based program drug screening should be necessary to stop welfare fraud and unnecessary funding for drug abusers. Medicaid is a government program that is established to help low income individuals with receiving health care…

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    set up to manage cost, quality, and utilization. Medicaid Managed care allows for the delivery of Medicaid health benefits and additional services through contracted arrangements between Medicaid agencies and Managed Care Organizations (MCOs), that accept a set number per member per month (capitation) payment for services. By contracting with various types of MCOs to deliver Medicaid program services to beneficiaries, states can reduce Medicaid program costs and manage utilization of…

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    Bankers Life Medicare Supplement The question in most people’s minds, especially seniors is what are supplement plans? A Medicare supplement plan is basically meant to compliment your primary Medicare plan commonly referred to as the Original Medicare. This means that once you qualify for the supplement Medicare Plans you can get extra coverage that you currently don’t get with your existing or Original Medicare Plan. It offers you a chance to get cover for an extra set of health care services…

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    The hope is a multidisciplinary approach to care would produce a more comprehensive assessment and plan of care for the individual. Sometimes this is the case and other times it’s not. It really truly depends on the team members. Recently, we had a discharge planning meeting for a resident at our facility. The resident’s daughter is the Director of Admissions at our facility. Our social worker called her to explain that her father was making very little progress and she did not expect him to…

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    Long-term care is defined as health, mental health, residential or social support provided to a person with functional disabilities on an informal or formal basis over an extended period of time with the goal of maximizing the person’s independence. The goal of long-term care is help people achieve functional independence, in contrast to the goal of acute care, which is to cure. The fundamental reason that a person needs long-term care is because they suffer from one or more functional…

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    About Us Since the inception of the California Department of Insurance (CDI) in 1968, most insurance company’s operations in California have been reliably regulated with all the consumer interests being protected for a fair playing ground for all parties involved. MedicareFAQ has always endeavored to allay all fears that budding and existing users of Medicare supplement plans have regarding various carriers. We have a team of qualified agents available for answering your industry related…

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    Long-Term Care Administrators Long-term care (LTC) industry is predicted to experience a significant growth because of the simultaneous aging of the baby boomers, and consequently, their need for long-term care. Thus, the jobs or duties of LTC administrators will become more demanding, and more stressful. There are, however, some traits and training that LTC administrators will need in order to succeed. LTC administrator’s job is not for the faint-hearted because the job entails a lot of hard…

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    2.2 Marketisation of home care for older people The older care at home in this study would include the care services of personal routines, including nursing, body-related support, home help and befriending taken place at older people’s home by paid care worker rather than family members, following the embracement of domiciliary elderly care of Bode et al (2013) and Bolton and Wibberley (2014). The home care has been increasingly operated according to market mechanism and portrayed as the ideal…

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    In this paper, we will discuss the movie Away from Her. We will talk about different problems encountered in the movie, their solutions and how the movie would look like today if it was set in Las Vegas. We also hope to share our own thoughts about how we would deal with Alzheimer’s disease if we were the patient. Away from Her is a very interesting movie about a fictitious couple named Grant and Fiona Anderson. Their characters are played by Gordon Pinsent, and Julie Christie, respectively…

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    Out of all the websites that I have reviewed, the most interesting one was the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Website to compare the hospitals in your home area. It shows how each hospital does on treating several different diseases and shows what the national average is in our country. I found this extremely helpful because it helped confirm some of my beliefs in the Oakwood system, but also showed the misconceptions of the Oakwood system. I had always known that they had an issue with giving…

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