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Hi, I need help with essay on Adult Day Care Programs. Paper must be at least 2500 words. Please, no plagiarized work!Download file to see previous pages They help the doctors by giving treatments, in

Hi, I need help with essay on Adult Day Care Programs. Paper must be at least 2500 words. Please, no plagiarized work!

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They help the doctors by giving treatments, injections, medicine, tests, or draw blood as directed by the doctor. They also view patients for physical, mental, social and or emotional changes plus record changes. There are quite a few fields of jobs that a listed nurse can go through. Nurse teachers in a society or university colleges and registered nurses who work in a hospital are two of the instances in the field of nursing job.

The dramatic aging of the American population that will occur over the next twenty years and its implications for increased demands on health and long-term care (LTC) systems have become common knowledge. In creating this public awareness gerontologists have been successful. Less satisfactory, however, have been the proposed solutions to the impact on services and costs of the impending demographic bulge. There is a strong sense that we do not know how to control costs while adequately addressing needs. There is a widespread assumption that society will not be able to deliver on prior promises of future benefits, and leaders are increasingly reluctant to make new promises.There is also a common perception in both the professional community and the general public that resources are too often misallocated for expensive tertiary care and life support to the neglect of primary prevention, public health, and basic social support. While Medicare will spend a small fortune on aggressive acute care for an eighty-five-year-old, and Medicaid will do the same to keep an individual alive for years in a vegetative state, help is unlikely to be available for an overburdened, aging woman who must struggle to lift her disabled husband from a bathtub. Our public and private insurance systems pay for expensive machinery that substitutes for failing kidneys, lungs, and hearts, but they are not yet ready to pay for a simple service that might substitute for a failing or absent family caregiver.

In our current health care system some of these needs are addressed at times by various benefit programs and service providers, but at other times people fall "through the cracks" into uncovered territory. Help may be available from home health agencies (for Medicare-covered skilled care), from hospitals (during discharge planning), and from nursing homes (during both short- and long-term stays). but for many, if not most, frail elders in the community, these major providers are not responsible since their needs lie outside of service and coverage definitions (Harris, 1995). Aging-network agencies funded by the Administration on Aging (AoA) may be able to help a little, and a few states also add significant funding. Still, in no state is a single agent responsible for ongoing care related to simple frailty, confusion, or medical complexity outside of acute- and skilled-care contexts.

Many of the services that are needed for community care are already available in many communities and can be purchased on a fee-for-service basis or may be reimbursed by Medicaid. Such services can include in-home assistance by nurses, therapists, personal care workers, home health aides, and homemakers. Care can also be provided in community-based settings, such as adult day-care, or through special transportation or communication systems, or even during short-term nursing home stays. But having the services available does not make a system of care: Missing are systems of financing and coverage that ensure equitable access. Missing also are standards and procedures for referral, quality assurance, access, communications, and accountability.

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