Question

What is meant by the continuum of institutional long-term care? Discuss the clinical services delivered by residential/personal care facilities, assisted living facilities, and skilled nursing facilities.

You just got a job at an assisted living facility. After two weeks, your supervisor asks you about your experience thus far and he also asks you to identify two major challenges assisted living facilities currently face. Be specific and do the research.

Answer 1

Many people have long-term care at their home or community center or adult day care centers.However, together with additional options of care, aided livelihood, continuing retirement communities, and nursing homes.

Beneficiaries of long-term service providers include boards and care homes, assisted lodging, nursing home and continuous care property facilities.

Board and care homes: Staff usually live in the home and can help residents with daily activities such as bathing, eating and toiletting. Boards and care homes do not provide nursing or medical care, but they are often provided with support for the needs of personal care, although the available housing facilities are available.

Assisted lodging: A supportive living accommodation or support grant is a disability or a housing facility for adults who may or may not live independently.

Nursing home : Providing a public or private residential facility, a long-term, private or nursing scam is provided to a high level of people (such as elderly or chronic sicknesses) who can not perform themselves correctly.

Continuous care property : Continuous care retirement community 'A continuous care retirement community is a residential facility or property that provides housing, food, health care and social activities for the elderly throughout the rest of their lives according to their changing needs.

The major challenges that assisted living facilities currently faces are  the number of surviving living survivors is increasingly ill and immersed in many dementia.Responsible workers should handle the complicated drug regulation with their care, protecting them, for those walking to the bathrooms can be dangerous and unable to make people unable to threaten themselves or others.