HLTEN515B Implement and monitor nursing care for older clients AS3 – Short answer questions Student Name: Chantel Goulding Student Number: 0104328012 1. Define functional and chronological ageing and discuss how this relates to the older person. Functional age is a combination of observable individual attributes such as mental capacity, physical appearance, mobility and strength which is used to assign people to age categories. Functional ageing can create negative stereotypes towards the aging and the aged, this is known as ageism. Chronological Age is based on a person’s date of birth.
As nuclear families replace extended families in industrial societies, older people no longer reside with their adult children. The role of the elderly in retaining and disseminating information has diminished in industrial societies. The elderly have lost much of their economic power. Sociologist Donald O. Cowgill has hypothesized that: a. The status and role of the elderly in the future will increase because the birthrate has dropped to an all-time low.
Meeting the financial and social service burdens of growing numbers of elders will not be a daunting task once the real challenges of caring for the aging population are achieved (1) making sure society develops payment and insurance systems for long-term care that work better than existing ones, (2) taking advantage of advances in medicine and behavioral health to keep the elderly as healthy and active as possible, (3) changing the way society organizes community services so that care is more accessible, and (4) altering the cultural view of aging to make sure all ages are integrated into the fabric of community life. Programs that support the aging population are costly and usually require tax increases to continue funding which diminishes the standard of living for younger generations. According to the United States Census Bureau, the nation's 90-and-older population nearly tripled over the past three decades and is more likely to be women and to have higher widowhood, poverty and disability rates than people just under this age cutoff (Bernstein, 2011). They survived the Great Depression and World Wars and worked very hard. The National Council on Aging states that 14% of adults aged 65+ face retirements with negative net worth.
Some of them even eliminate the subsidized medical benefits for the retirees. This has seen a decline of firms offering health benefits to retirees in past years, a factor that has created a negotiation frontier among employees and employers. Citizens are therefore discouraged by these trends since they do not expect any medical subsidies from their employers. As a result, they are more reluctant to seek help and resolve to out-of-pocket
What does research/statistical data say about: The average age for retirement from the workforce? Workers are now retiring at older ages because the incentives to retire have changed. Since the mid-1990s, the average retirement age has risen from 62 to 64 for men and from 60 to 62 for women, according to a new Center for Retirement Research at Boston College analysis of Census Bureau data. The trend toward later retirement has been driven by declines in traditional pensions and retiree health benefits offered by employers, changes in the way Social Security benefits are calculated, better education and health, and less strenuous jobs that people are able to perform at older
According to Rosenau, Lai, and Lako (2012), the United States health care industry P4P is one of the most important developments after capitation and managed care. The target of P4P is to change the behavior patients, physicians, and those working in the health care industry through a system of rewards and punishments. The P4P bonus for physicians can become the form of an add-on to his or her salary to the general fee-for-service. A bonus for a hospital can be additional payments beyond the payments received through the diagnosis group based payment. A punishment through the P4P system can end in the reduction of compensation or other penalties.
Therefore, companies would have to recalculate on their future investment strategy. Aging is an issue not just in America, but in the whole world. It means there will be more retired older people and the working population will shrink (Kelly & McGowan, 2012 p.12). Because aging is growing in the world population that will benefit the fields that service the elderly such as health care, pharmaceutical and any fields relate to
In 2011, it was predicted that the number of Americans uninsured would be reduced by more than half when the Act is fully implemented (Rosenbaum, 2011). “The law will result in health insurance coverage for about 94% of the American population, reducing the uninsured by 31 million people” (Rosenbaum, 2011). With the expanded access to health insurance provided by this law, more and more people are now seeking health care. Because of this new trend, the supply and demand for nurses and other healthcare professionals will be unbalanced. Another rationale for shortages has to do with the retirement of the aging population in the nursing workforce.
The 48/6 model of care is the screening tool developed to improve individualized care plans for patients The care plan is to be completed within 48 hours of the patient’s admission, and is meant to address 6 key areas of concern (Hospital Care for Seniors, 2012). This paper will address the following: A history of the 48/6 followed by discussions of its implementation using Lewin’s change theory, the nurse’s role in change and lastly, considerations for future
In the article, “Broadening the Scope of Nursing Practice” the authors offers an extensive look at the future of nursing professionals in the field of healthcare. The authors discuss the impact of Affordable Care Act (ACA) on primary care services, due to more Americans having access to healthcare insurance. There is currently a shortage of primary care providers and with the ACA insuring an additional 32 million Americans this poses a significant problem in the delivery of healthcare services. The author proposes the use of advanced-practice registered nurses (nurse practitioners) as primary care providers to help alleviate the shortage of providers. Advanced-practice registered nurses are healthcare providers that receive advanced didactic