Types of Long-Term CareResearch shows that many people do not know about or understand long-term care options. Following are brief descriptions of the major types of long-term care: Home care can be given in your own home by family members, friends, volunteers, and/or paid professionals. This type of care can range from help with shopping to nursing care. Some short-term, skilled home care (provided by a nurse or therapist) is covered by Medicare and is called "home health care." Another type of care that can be given at home is hospice care for terminally ill people.
Long Term Care AAGR171LM2 April 5, 2013 Barbara Brophy Long-term care help an individual meet health or personal needs. There are a variety of services when it comes to long-term care which includes medical and non-medical care to people who either have a chronic illness or disability. Basically long-term care is help the elderly when they are needing assistance that offer support services as activities of daily living like dressing, bathing, using the bathroom and walking. Long-term care can be provided in the home, in the community or within a nursing home. For instance, my grandmother lived in an assisted living facility, to where food was provided for her.
The services they provide are part-time or intermittent nursing care, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech-language therapy and home health aide. ( Medicare, 2006). Home healthcare has a plan that makes small payments to health providers on behalf of the patient, changing the financial risk for healthcare from patients and payers to providers. There are certain circumstances patient have to meet in order to qualify for home health care. Doctors must determine that you may receive medical care in your home.
Day care is where the service user is still living at home however they go in to a center near their home for a day. The day care provides the service user time to make friends for social reasons they will also have access to health care professionals, also physio or occupational care. The third care setting is nursing care; this has specialist health care for the service users needs. This also
Introduction to Personal Development in Health, social care or Children's and Young People’s Settings 1.1: Describe the duties and responsibilities of own role. The role I possess of a care assistant is to care for vulnerable elderly people. There are many ways and means for caring for the elderly whether it would be to assist the service user with personal care or whether the service user is just more vulnerable than other’s. The responsibilities are to keep the service users from harm and to assist in a way the service user to match their needs that does not affect their wellbeing. Sometimes it is necessary to make or help guide decisions for some service users as they may not have the mental capacity to do so, so therefore we make some decisions that may affect their life, whether it is medication or making decisions about what food choice they have.
This program is designed to provide patients a personal relationship with a physician, continuity of care across time and place, and care where it is needed, for as long as it is needed. “The house call team will also try to provide the following services: Health assessment, diagnosis, and plan for treatment; Assessment of the home environment for factors that may contribute to health and safety problems; Ongoing medical care; Care management and oversight, both within the patient’s home and across settings, home to hospital and rehab facility and back home again; Coordination of health services with visiting nurses, medical specialists, hospital staff, hospice services and community agencies to improve the continuity of health and medical care and facilitate hospital admissions; and Support and education to patients and their families so they can make informed health care decisions” (Institute for the Future of Aging Services , 2008). House call physicians and nurses may also assist patients with identifying medical equipment needs, authorize and oversee durable medical equipment and home health providers, and conduct routine tests in the patient’s home, such as blood work, urinalyses, EKGs and x-rays so that a patient wo has a difficult time leaving their home can receive routine
I cannot not imagine what it is like to have a child that is sick, let alone a child that is terminally ill. Unfortunately, every year over a million infants and children suffer from a life-threatening illness. Families are then faced with the decision of what kind of medical treatment they want to obtain for their child. More commonly, families choose hospice care, which can be obtained in a hospital setting or at home. It might be more crucial for the child to receive hospice care at home, so the child may avoid from suffering from separation anxiety.
This includes: • Being responsible for anticipating that service users needs and communicating these needs to other staff and professional involved with that service user. • Being involved in writing review reports as necessary for that service user. • Being involved in setting up and implementing personal care plans for that service user. • To be involved in the selection, assessment and admission of new service users with the manager / deputy. • To help new service users settle into the home.
The patient is homebound. 2. The patient is under the care of a physician who will establish a home health plan. 3. The patient needs physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, or intermittent skilled nursing care.
It may be with the local authorities or a family relative or friend. If the illness is permanent and leaves the parent/ guardian unable to care for the child, then permanent care may be put in place. Child related reasons; Behavioural problems Children may need to be looked after as a consequence of their own actions. If a child’s behaviour cannot be managed and controlled by their parents/ guardians and is causing stress and ill health to anyone in the household then they may require them to be looked after by someone other than their parents/guardians. Learning difficulties Children with learning difficulties present their own problems and challenges; some families are unable to cope with these challenges and may place their child in respite care.