Long-Term Care System: A Case Study

California Supreme Court Clarifies Long Term Care Act’s Application to Release of Confidential Information The California Supreme Court has clarified the application of the Long-Term Care Act’s disclosure requirements in consideration of Welfare and Institutions Code section 5328’s general prohibition against the release of information contained in the course of providing treatment to mentally ill and developmentally disabled individuals. In State Dept. of Public Health v. Superior Court (2015) 60 Cal.4th 940, the Supreme Court considered the issue of whether the disclosure requirements of the Long-Term Care Act (LTCA) or Welfare and Institutions Code section 5328 applied where a public records request was made for health records. The case involved the Center for Investigative Reporting, a news organization investigating the treatment of mentally ill and developmentally disabled in state owned health care facilities, which issued a public records request to the Department of Public Health (DPH) for copies of all citations issued to the facilities it was investigating.

It is my analysis of the financial burden and decisions we had to make for my grandmother is that as the demand increases for long-term care as the baby boomer population ages, Medicare and Medicaid will be forced to reevaluate how they pay for long-term care. Many states are not equipped to handle the comprehensive needs of this aging population (Ford, Henderson, & Handley, 2010). Also, families are forced to take on enormous financial burdens due to the lack of coverage by Medicare (Can Medicare, 2015). The are no true pros to this situation.

Management of Care Case Study Josepha is working on a medical surgical unit with three other RNs and one LPN. There is also a male and a female patient care tech. Josepha has been a nurse for four months, and after completing two months of orientation she takes a full assignment as a registered nurse. Josepha feels that the assignments she receives are not always fair, as she tends to get the most challenging clients.

Discussion 5- Advocacy According to recent data, the baby boom generation will have all retired by 2030, (AARP), which is only 15 years from now. The population in this generation will include 77 million more 65 and older individuals, not including the 54 million already in retirement and receiving Social Security and Medicare benefits. Please note that many seniors also receive some form of federal benefits such as military pensions, survivor’s benefits, annuities, investments income or an awarded settlement (Quad Agno, 14). Unfortunately, in our society driven many times by greed, this has placed our seniors in vulnerable positions, particularly when health and cognitive functions have declined; a slight disadvantage of becoming older (Quadagno,

Health care has gone through a great evolution through the years. Before 1965, individuals older than 65 years old received inadequate healthcare and more than half of this population did not have coverage (Reinhard, 2012). Due to this predicament, the need to identify issues and implement health policy was imperative to improve health care. Consequently, Medicare was introduced with the goal to mitigate the health issues during the 1960’s and to improve the healthcare availability for individuals 65 years and older. Since then, Medicare has gone through numerous changes in order to incorporate other population needs.

Though the average life expectancies have continued to increase since the creation of the baby boom generation, those who live longer lives will most likely be burdened with the constantly increasing cost of healthcare in the United States. More money required to be paid to healthcare for the betterment of older life means less money that can be dedicated to lifestyle choices like foods, living arrangements, etc.. With the baby boomers reaching retirement age, the social security fund will most likely decrease and may be expected to go bankrupt by the sheer amount of people to retire in upcoming

Introduction I. We as a human being, we age and it is said that there will be more elderly people in the future. A. According to the graph of 2012 Population Estimates and National Projections from the Current Population Report by Jennifer M. Ortman, the population aged 65 and above is projected to be 83.7 million in 2050, almost double its estimated population of

The Nursing Home management development programme is designed will help you further develop your management and leadership skills in a nursing home environment. As part of the programme each participant will be required to keep a “Learner record” during the programme. The purpose of this document is to encourage you to reflect on the content of the Nursing Home Management Development Programme in Leadership and describe how you will go about implementing the learning into your personal management style going forward. It will be used as part of the assessment of your knowledge in the areas of leadership and communication, you need to ensure that it is completed in a comprehensive manner and is structured and laid out professionally.

By 2050, people who are over 60 and 65 will reach 430 million and 300 million, respectively (Kincannon, He, & West, 2005). Thus, since the older adult population is increasing dramatically, younger generations face an unprecedented

Longer life expectancy is arguably one of humanity biggest achievements. Medical progress, public-health efforts, rising standards of living, better education, healthier nutrition and a more hygienic lifestyle in the past century lead to an substantial increase in life expectancy worldwide.(1) In developed countries around 30 years in life expectancy have been gained, in these societies the oldest-old group – i.e., those aged 80 and over – have been the most rapidly expanding segment of the population over the past decades.(2,3) It is expected that by 2050, the worldwide population of older adults (more than 60 years old) may grow to nearly 2 billion, with 80% of that population living in developing countries.(4) However, humanity’s big achievement has its pitfalls; the years gained in life expectancy might be years with disability, since disability increases with age, and therefore people are not only living longer but are also experiencing morbidity and disability over a longer period.(5) Worldwide, the trend toward longer life has been accompanied with an increasing prevalence of diseases in older adults, and decline in mobility, independence and other functions that are essential for a good quality of life.(6)

Often, younger patients become prioritized over older ones, which results in poorer treatments. Geriatrics, the branch of medicine that deals with healthcare for older patients, has become a neglected field that can only be explained by discrimination against older people. Patients should not be forgotten because they are older in age, as they should have the right to equal treatment. The negligence of these patients causes damaging consequents such as the worsening of preexisting conditions, or the development of new ones. Looking at a study from 2008, “one out of five adults experience discrimination in healthcare setting” (Pecci).

The world society is growing older and existing longer (Osuji, 2014). Ageing is an imminent and unwaveringly progressive process that starts at birth and completes at the end of the life (Tabloski, 2014). Nurses are leading providers of care to the elderly population both in acute and community settings. As the result, gerontological nursing interventions are directed on a particular set of knowledge, focused on enabling the elderly to accomplish independence, advance their rehabilitation possibility, lessen disability, and implement supporting care till the end of

Providing we live long enough, each one of us will experience the issues of aging. According to (Statistics Canada), the population of people 65 and older is now larger than the number of children under 15. Who will care for the aged population? How will they be treated? Theses are just a couple of questions that many who are 60 and older silently ponder over.

1) INTRODUCTION The world has experienced a steady increase in life expectancy in this century. The dramatic increase in average life expectancy imposes a great challenge in healthcare. World Health Organisation (2015) reported between 2015 and 2050, the proportion of the world's population over 60 years of age will double from 12% to 22%. The most rapidly growing segment of the Singapore population is the older people.

The emergence of health care reform and an increased number of chronic conditions and