9—plan ahead for long term care

... value for money in long- term care is a priority Growth in demand for more and better care will put pressure on governments to improve value for money in long- term care While long- term care still ... GDP Total long- term care spending is calculated as the sum of services of long- term health care and social services of long- term care The former, which represent health-related long- term care spending, ... AND PAYING FOR LONG- TERM CARE © OECD 2011 17 Help Wanted? Providing and Paying for Long- Term Care © OECD 2011 Summary and Conclusions Help Wanted? Providing and Paying for Long- Term Care The growing...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 17:20

... access to long- term care for those who need it through a system of targeted subsidies available to those who cannot afford to pay for it themselves The level of subsidies for public longterm care ... the use of long- term- care resources and the provision of acute- and primary -care services, and by making a greater effort to meet the demand for long- term care The provinces could, for example, ... lists for places in nursing homes or for long- term care in the community will require changes that encourage caregivers and providers to respond better to the pent-up demand for long- term care...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 18:20

... beneficiaries of long- term care interventions, because the care for the elderly person who is disabled is an important respite for the family caregiver (Stone and Kemper, 1989) Long- term care encompasses ... WHO NEEDS AND USES LONG- TERM CARE? The long- term care population is diverse in terms of age and level of disability Of the estimated 12.8 million Americans reporting long- term care needs in 1995, ... paraprofessional workers Informal Care The major long- term care provider is the family and, to a lesser extent, other unpaid “informal” caregivers According to the 1994 National Long- Term Care Survey, more...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 17:20

... processes of care, ideally linked to quality of care; and delivery of reports or communications that present these data to care providers in a format that can be understood and used for quality ... responsible for carrying these decisions out in terms of daily care The implications of this study for teamwork among and across disciplines are quite striking, and the detail provided through the careful ... direct care to residents in continuing care in both facilities are eligible to participate in the study Direct care staff include care managers (unit managers), RNs, LPNs, nurse aides or healthcare...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:23

... attempt to improve care to individual residents; if so, what kinds of actions were taken, and whether formal efforts at quality improvement were initiated, as well as less formal efforts These questions ... intervention in home care settings using the RAI instrument designed to assess clients receiving long- term home care services (RAI-HC) will begin in fall 2010 Following a yearlong intervention with ... Cite this article as: Sales and Schalm: Data for improvement and clinical excellence: protocol for an audit with feedback intervention in longterm care Implementation Science 2010 5:74 Submit...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:23

... context in complex healthcare settings The index version of the ACT was developed for use in acute care settings [74] and has been adapted for and piloted in the long- term care setting as part of ... knowledge uptake in the long- term care sector is nascent Therefore, our first year's work was to undertake feasibility testing in the sector and pilot the TREC survey in long- term care facilities with ... translation in the long- term care environment – an environment where: the quality of care is suboptimal [72] and the model of care is a nursing services delivery model where the majority of caregivers...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:21

... Research in Elder Care (TREC) program [1]; TREC project one (Study Protocol for Translating Research in Elder Care: Building Context – an Organizational Monitoring Program in Long- Term Care Project ... (Study Protocol for Translating Research in Elder Care: Building Context through Case Studies in Long- Term Care Project) The purpose of this paper is to report the study protocol for Project Current ... Program in Long- Term Care Project (Project 1) Implement Sci 2009, 4(1):52 Dopson S, Gabbay J, Lolock L, Chambers D: Evaluation of the PACE Programme: Final Report Oxford, UK: Oxford Healthcare Management...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:21

... Research in Elder Care (TREC) program [1]; TREC project one (Study Protocol for Translating Research in Elder Care: Building Context – an Organizational Monitoring Program in Long- Term Care Project ... (Study Protocol for Translating Research in Elder Care: Building Context through Case Studies in Long- Term Care Project) The purpose of this paper is to report the study protocol for Project Current ... Program in Long- Term Care Project (Project 1) Implement Sci 2009, 4(1):52 Dopson S, Gabbay J, Lolock L, Chambers D: Evaluation of the PACE Programme: Final Report Oxford, UK: Oxford Healthcare Management...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:20

... rate for obtaining removal efficiency of 80% for T-N and about 99% for NH4+-N, at the recycle ratio of 600% and C/N ratio of about was about m3/day, which means that about 2.3 days is proper for ... constant at about 2,200 mg/L for T-N and 2,000 mg/L for NH4+-N Effluent T-N under steady state condition was about 400 mg/L for the recycle ratio 400% and 330 mg/L for 600 % and declined to about ... Effects of Recycle Ratio 3.1 Nitrogen This test was performed for the effects of recycle ratio after about 50 days of stabilization period for sufficient adaptation of methanol to be inserted as...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 08:40

... Quality of Long- Term Care with Better Information .267 VINCENT MOR 15 Long- Term Care Housing Types and Design .293 SHANNON M CHANCE PART V: POLICY MAKING AND FINANCING 16 Long- Term Care ... Health and Human Services (DHHS) (2007) What Is Long- Term Care? Washington: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services http://www.medicare gov/LongTermCare/Static/Home.asp (accessed May 27, 2007) ... Views on Institutional Care 20 Caregivers 20 Older People 21 Public Policy 22 Paying for Long- Term Care 23 Medicaid, Long- Term Care, and Public Support...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 19:20

... “Health and Long- Term Care PROVIDING LONG- TERM CARE 78 4.1 Experience with long- term health care .78 4.2 Paying for the long- term care of a parent 85 RECEIVING LONG- TERM CARE ... long- term care in Europe In 2002, the Barcelona European Council recognised three guiding principles for the reform of health care systems: accessibility for all, high quality care and long- term ... 91 5.1 Likelihood of receiving appropriate care in the future 91 5.2 Expected and preferred form of long- term care 95 5.3 Financing long- term care 100 MALTREATMENT OF DEPENDENT ELDERLY...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 18:20

... Guidance Note 2: Selecting storage media for long- term preservation Contents INTRODUCTION .4 SELECTION ISSUES .4 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Longevity Capacity ... records It is intended for use by anyone involved in the creation of electronic records that may need to be preserved over the long term, as well as by those responsible for preservation This ... This guidance note provides information for the creators and managers of electronic records about the selection of physical storage media in the context of long- term preservation The scope of...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 18:20

... apply to the forms contained in this product when reproduced for personal use For information on bulk purchases or corporate premium sales, please contact the Special Sales Department For academic ... business when you are no longer in charge; creating a buy-sell agreement has important, long- term consequences for you and your family, and your finances Allow plenty of time for discussions with ... outsider for her interest, or wishes to change other terms of the sale to the outsider to make them more favorable (for example, a lower interest rate on installment payments or a longer payment term) ,...

Ngày tải lên: 18/04/2014, 14:03

... conditions For each PCR, forty cycles of amplification were performed with the following temperature profiles: 94°C for min, 55°C for min, and 72°C for for the outer primer set and 94°C for min, 60°C for ... isolation and long term replication were carried out in several phases: short term cultures (positive for HCV up to 10 weeks), medium term cultures (positive for 10–23 weeks), or extended term cultures ... individual patients for further analysis http://www.virologyj.com/content/2/1/37 Determination of optimum day for harvesting HCV for RNA extraction In order to determine the optimum day for harvesting...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... from each other Only for Ec /Ior = 50% the coverage of strong blocks is above or equal to 95% for 384 kbps, but for 256 kbps the coverage value for strong blocks is above 95% for Ec /Ior = 5% This ... blocks For the reference BLER of 1%, the spread in Es /N0 values for different k values is much higher for weak blocks compared to strong blocks As a result, we observe a small coverage gain for ... This is particularly true for the high bit rate 384 kbps For the low bit rate the macrodiversity gain is not so substantial as the throughput performance is already good for a single radio link...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 23:20

... though RBS and FTSP estimate the clock skew alongside clock offset using linear regression, they are insufficient in practice for longterm synchronization, for example, the shooter localization system ... is evident that the MLE performs well even for small N and hence suitable for the power limited regime of WSNs CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE WORK Using a quadratic model for the relationship between ... results in long- term synchronization between nodes and consequently saves a lot of energy in terms of considerably less frequent resynchronization through timing message communications For future...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 19:20

... not for citation purposes) Journal of Nanobiotechnology 2009, 7:7 http://www.jnanobiotechnology.com/content/7/1/7 Figure Long term observation of the terminal part of a nerve cell process Long term ... Niederkinkhaus for help with the cell culture, Maren D Lange for performing some SICM measurements, Stefan A Mann for helpful discussions, Rolf Heumann, Jan Meijer and the RUBION-team for continuous ... material Additional file Long term observation of the terminal part of a nerve cell process A movie composed of top views of the data presented in Figure Click here for file [http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/supplementary/14773155-7-7-S1.MPG]...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 00:22

... intensive care unit (ICU) The objectives of this study were, therefore, to define the incidence of and quantify the risk factors for developing sARF, and to establish the long- term outcome and its determinants ... Discussion This study describes the incidence and long- term mortality rates for critically ill patients with a diagnosis of sARF and the prognosis for long- term renal recovery in a well-defined nonspecified ... which the incidence of sARF was determined [8,33,34], and all these studies are limited as none were able to assess for risk factors, long- term survival or long- term renal recovery prognosis [8,9,33]...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:20