Palliative care

Executive chef and public health advocate, Mark Britton, writes a compelling essay as a guest columnist for New York Times in which he proposes a strategy to encourage Americans to consume more healthy foods and decrease consumption of unhealthy foods. Essentially, he argues that one of the best ways to motivate Americans and change their unhealthy diets is to hit them where it hurts the most—their wallets! Not only does this article target the American people, but the government as well.…

mother. I am also convinced though our mother has five children, that full guardianship should only be awarded to my sisters. It is important for me to explain why I have arrived at this conclusion 
Prior to my sisters stepping in and taking over her care, our mother was living in deplorable conditions. I was witness to this during my visits to Singapore in 2012 and early 2013. My mother was underweight, suffered severe migraines…

SJMHS includes five hospitals (Ann Arbor, Chelsea, Howell, Pontiac, and Livonia), five Outpatient Health Centers, eight Urgent Cares, and over 25 Specialty Centers. Moreover, the system is part of Trinity Health, one of the largest multi-institutional religious health care delivery systems. The system is operating in 22 states, affiliates 93 hospitals and 128 continuing care facilities, including home health, hospice,…

to mental health care is to increase government funding. Sometimes we need to think “out of the box” and use funding to develop interventions for people that may not necessarily need to be delivered by mental health professionals. Another way to improve access is to incorporate mental health care into a person’s routine care. This would not only help in earlier detection and treatment, but it would ease the access to care, and probably decrease the stigma developed by seeking care from a…

Intensive care is an extremely expensive medical resource, and long term survival rates after admission are relatively poor (Parno et al 1982). As a result of both of these factors there are limitations placed on the number of beds available in intensive care units. Once it is acknowledged that these restrictions are necessary, it is important to determine and control exactly how the health service should be affected by these limitations. Admission to ICU could be limited as to provide each…

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…

Manage care organizations (MCOs) are types of health insurance that involve the creation of provider networks as well as prevention benefits, utilization review for medical necessity and standards of care, and often care management (Kongstvedt, 2013; Medline Plus, 2014). The beginnings of managed care in the United States reaches back to the early twentieth century and continue to thrive, but managed care has not been born from a single force or entity but from many sources seeking differing…

The role of gait variability in the elderly Introduction Fall-related injuries have been one of the main causes of accidental death in older adults. Moreover, it has been shown that over 33% of adults over the age of 65 will fall every year [1]. For people between 75 and 84 years old it is the second leading cause of injury death, and for people over 85 it is the leading cause [2]. The high number of falls not only has great effect in the elderly health, but it shows a very high cost in the…

components of Lia Lee 's care outside of the medical setting. She was assigned to the Lee family by the Merced County Health Department. Simply stated, she was there to make sure hat the Lee 's were overall on the right track and were preventing Lia from ending up back in the hospital. Outside of Lia 's medical care, Effie was able to observe her behavioral and environmental health. By making home visits, Effie stated that there were issues with the behavioral aspect of the Lee 's care for Lia.…

Personal Assessment: Preventing and Managing Diabetes, A Global Health Challenge Every day, we are faced with various choices that have a rippling effect on our lives and that of our children, and the older we get and the more responsible we become, and we strive to make healthier choices. According to Holmes (2009), one of the public health challenges of the millennium is aging, which has been compounded with the increased incidence of chronic diseases and disabilities. Diabetes has been…