U.S. Health Care System
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With the population in America aging, there is a question of how well prepared the nation is to handle care for the elderly. As Dall et al. (2013) point out, the increasingly large elderly population will require an increasingly large and specially trained health care workforce within the next decade to ensure quality care is available. LTC beds are certainly not the only place to put the elderly and communities can be developed that allow elderly persons who are able to care for themselves to live independently. Younger family members may also be interested in providing support and assistance, and this is important to consider as without some familial or social connection, the elderly population can begin to feel isolated, depressed, and become withdrawn from the world (Rowe & Kahn, 1997).
The best way for people to age out into death is the way that they are most comfortable with: choices should not be made for them that they would not like. Giving the elderly the opportunity to be involved in their own care planning is important. It is also crucial to have a culture in place that supports this practice—and the culture is in the process now of disintegrating, as there are fewer children today than there were half a century ago—which indicates a loss of culture being passed on from one generation to the next. With fewer people paying into the system there is also the risk of there not being enough Medicare subsidies to go around. However, it is not ethical for one person to have access to...…population in an attempt to eliminate feelings of depression and isolation. The research question would be: What is the effect of community care interventions on elderly populations suffering from depression and isolation?
Some considerations I would make in designing the research would be whether to make it a qualitative or quantitative study. Qualitative would allow me to ask open-ended questions and engage more in exploratory research while quantitative design would allow me to use a Likert scale type of measure for the questionnaire and simply make statements to which the participant could respond with a degree of agree or disagree that is numbered from 1 to 5. The method of the questionnaire would be useful in either design but depending on how I want to answer the question, whether with statistical data that is analyzed…
U.S. Healthcare [QUALITY] To analyze and compare the U.S. healthcare, internationally, it is important to know what really constitutes a good health care system. The U.S. Institute of Medicine describes this quality as, "the degree to which health services for individuals and populations increase the likelihood of desired health outcomes and are consistent with current professional knowledge." This system, in its broad sense, should comprise of two main branches of preventative and
Health Care Systems and Administration of Services Why do you think (1) hospitals and (2) physicians have invested less in information technology than banks have? What can be done to reduce resistance and encourage adoption? Every industry has benefitted from the advent of affordable and powerful computer technology, but some have used new technologies to greater advantage than others. Computers have been used to speed up many processes that were completely controlled
patient falls in U.S. healthcare institutions is staggering. They increase insurance costs, staff pressure, and even more accidental injuries other than falls. Research has shown that there are a number of ways patient falls may be mitigated: more nursing rounds, patient exercise, and body awareness conditioning. Tai Chi is a Chinese martial art that is practices for both defense training and health benefits, as well as longevity. The overall
These stakeholders are also vital in the promotion of the application of standards-based technology. This is critical as it enhances the safety and security of the citizens as they pursue low-cost health care services and products within the context of the United States. The federal and state governments have also been influential in the development and implementation of policies towards addressing security and privacy issues in relation to the utilization
U.S. & Norway Healthcare Systems healthcare system has many advantages and disadvantages which are most revealing when compared to the other health care systems of the world. An analysis between the U.S. healthcare system and a government run healthcare system of Norway provides a deeper understanding of the similarities and differences in the two systems. Almost every other developed nation in the world has some form of universal coverage which reduces
Gene Rogers who served as the medical director for Sacramento County's Indigent Services program for the most of the last decade who has "waged a long fight against the central California country's practice of providing non-emergency medical care to illegal immigrants - a policy he says violates federal law and results in the poorest American citizens being denied the care they deserve." (Cromer, 2007) it is related in Cromer's
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