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2. Select one of the following topics and search the Internet to learn more about the topic. How does this issue relate to nursing? In what ways it is a healthcare policy issue? Have any steps been taken to initiate legislation on this issue? If so, what are they?
a. Rural healthcare
b. Mental health parity
c. Aging and long-term care
d. Healthcare unions
e. Home care
f. Emergency room diversions
c, Aging and long term care:
growing aging population need long term care in a variety of
service to meet their health needs in the short and long term
period. Long term care makes elders live independently and safely
as possible to perform their care every day. long term care link to
health promotion measures it needs intervention from nursing.
implementing policy protection for this aging population in long
term facilities nurses act in a professional way to ensure
wellbeing, providing professional care and comfort them they play
an important role in elders' care. health care professionals work
together with family to resolve health problems. the elderly
population faces various public policy challenges for
cost-effectively receiving long term care. lack of Medicaid program
benefits make challenges of long term care with cost containment
pressure from the government because the federal government pays a
major health care expenditure in the federal budget due to
legislative and administrative control. restricted government
budget and program expenditure make public policy issues. Medicare
benefits for elders fill the major gap. cost-sharing in medicare
physician and hospital reimbursement policy make control program
cost that ensures efficiency and makes the decision for quality
long term care. national strategy for long term care and source of
funding and long term care service provides financial support to
make the aging population as a meaningful community and it protects
them against the various risk of incapacity and dependence.