mental health care service system for the elderly

... designed for two levels of use: one for clinical health professionals and the other for the general elderly population For the clinical health professionals, Butler offers a diagnostic tool for managing ... responsibility for the users Their levels of intervention are diagnostic and therapeutic, and the platform is designed to facilitate and optimize their work In this platform, the professionals can access the ... is used jointly by the therapist and the user and is active in the professional platform when the diagnostic application detects significant levels of discomfort in the user The TBL comprises questions...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 20:20

... personal health information system and the medical guidance 1) Personal health information system: The personal health system can store physiological data and other information in the database on the ... communication platform and medical knowledge database Therefore, the main functions of our system are described below • A real-time mobile health monitoring system for the elderly to monitor the health ... the thresholds and give advices which can guide the old people to adjust themselves to health mode B Personal Health Information System Our system can act as the personal health information system...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 19:21

... federal health professions workforce strategy, Title VII of the Public Health Service Act should be reauthorized The goal of the Title VII programs is to improve the quality of health care delivered ... address our nation’s health workforce needs “We will not view the workforce in isolation, but as the principal component in strengthening health systems and tackling priority health problems – all ... steps in the area of a health professions workforce in terms of quality The connection between our health professions workforce and the quality of care patients receive is well stated in the Institute...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 21:20

... inpatient elderly mental health care constitute the foundation of the elderly mental health care system at the secondary care level To be effective, an elderly mental health care service should remain ... in the primary care system They also provide consultation to many primary care providers to divert referrals from the secondary or tertiary system The formal service system for elderly mental health ... Diagram: Mental Health Care Service System for the Elderly 10 I Principles of Elderly Mental Health Care and Recommendations for Health Authorities ...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 18:20

... was set out in the Health and Social Care Act The aim is to broaden the range of options for health and social services, and deliver integrated care that gives the best service to the people who ... 1.1 million The key age group for predicting social care and health needs for older people is the over-85s Most of the people receiving significant amounts of care are the very elderly The demography ... then the inclusion of day care for older people with other community activities provides an excellent opportunity for integration • The development of respite and other support services for carers...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 17:20

... avoid the economic and social crises foreshadowed in current trends The nation must either slow the rate of growth of health care spending on the elderly or find ways to pay for the additional care ... SLOW THE GROWTH OF HEALTH CARE SPENDING Only three routes exist to slowing the growth of health care spending: (1) reduce the rate of growth of the prices of the resources used in health care (for ... standards If so, the key question is not, “Shall we it?” but rather, “Who will pay?” If expenditures continue to grow at the same rate as they have in the past, health care for the elderly in 2020...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 14:20

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 19:21

... As the share of the elderly in Canada’s population rises over the next several decades, and the demand for healthcare services expands, the cost of paying for their healthcare will present provincial ... using any of the money they receive for direct nursing and health support services from being allocated to the home’s bottom line In theory, money for these services must be returned to the government ... pay most of the costs the elderly incur for prescription drugs, for long-term care (LTC) the picture is mixed Some provinces pay most of the costs of a wide range of LTC services, but others make...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 18:20

... planning the health education process for the elderly, are summarized below 4.1.1 Health belief model The Health Belief Model (HBM) is the oldest of all the theories examined here The Health Belief ... related to their inadequacies, the amount and the www.intechopen.com Health Education for the Elderly 161 kinds of information that may affect the needed behaviors and the readiness level for providing ... be avoided in the educational materials designed specifically for the elderly (Figure a, b) Finally, another focus point in the health promotion for the elderly is encouraging health promotion...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 07:20

... place in the Women and Mental Health Reform Discussion Group at the BC Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health. 4 The impetus for the discussions was the release of the 1998 BC Mental Health Plan ... continues to be The women and service providers in our study were split in their views about the need for chemical HEARING VOICES: MENTAL HEALTH CARE FOR WOMEN 29 The mental health system predominantly ... organizations together with mental health HEARING VOICES: MENTAL HEALTH CARE FOR WOMEN 27 workers to learn how they can better support women with mental health challenges Other Barriers Across the province...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 12:20

... integrated care You can integrate all of the services for some of the people, some of the services for all of the people, but not all of the services for all of the people As indicated earlier in this ... citations for the term integrated health care and 24,000 citations for integrated health care for seniors From a systems perspective, some of the definitions include this Scottish definition: the ... integration efforts In Canada, for example, acute and primary care services are governed by the five principles of the Canada Health Act But long-term care services, community health services and...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 17:20

... $ )I < ,$ < 24 ( , 6AAA WHO Centre for Health Development; Ageing and Health Technical Report; V5, Glossary of terms for community health care and services for older persons ;2004 38 6' Petersen ... Report series of Master theses in Public Health These reports come from the Board of Education in Public Health Sciences at Karolinska Institutet The master education of Public Health at KI is a collaborative ... 2.2 GOALS FOR HEALTH PROMOTION IN OLDER PEOPLE 12 2.3 APPROACHES TO HEALTH PROMOTION FOR OLDER PEOPLE 12 2.3.1 The cultural change approach 13 2.3.2 The structural...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 17:20

... provide care and services in the home, the community, and the PACE center They have contracts with many specialists and other providers in the community to make sure that you get the care you ... Medicare or Medicaid The Focus is on You You have a team of health care professionals to help you make health care decisions Your team is experienced in caring for people like you Usually they care ... family members and other caregivers with caregiving training, support groups, and respite care to help families keep their loved ones in the community PACE Provides Services in the Community PACE...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 20:20

... among others, considering that healthcare workers need to become familiar with these documents, so that they can preserve the rights of the elderly population HEALTH PROMOTION FOR THE ELDERLY: ... and information about the National Health Policy for the elderly to healthcare workers, managers and users of the SUS; promotion of national and international cooperation in elderly healthcare ... support for the development of studies and research Strategic actions aiming at elderly health are: implementing the Caderneta de Saúde for the elderly, with relevant information about their health, ...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 20:20

... Improving Health Outcomes for the Elderly like ReMoteCare to connect to this port The serial forwarder transmits the queries of the ReMoteCare application to the base mote as well Figure 2: ReMoteCare ... responsible for transferring the data from the WSN to the Stargate On the Stargate the serial forwarder application sends this data to the Ethernet port It uses TCP port 9000 to allow other applications ... limited the technologies to Interactive Game Techologies and the ReMoteCare system rather than dealing with the full gamut of healthcare information technologies Figure below sets out the Analytical...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 14:20

... acute care and long-term care, such as home health care and subacute care, and efforts by states to substitute federal dollars for their own, Medicare now pays more of the costs than before The ... determinant of the market for long-term care is the extent to which future generations of elderly people will be able to afford these services The economic status of the elderly, and their potential ... MEDICAID Medicaid, the federal/state health insurance program for the poor, is the major public program covering long-term care for the elderly and for disabled people of all ages Despite the public’s...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 17:20

... strengthen both HIV/ AIDS services and the broader health system in which those services are embedded Primary health care in Mozambique Soon after independence in 1975, Mozambique embraced the ... financing: a cure for the broader malaise of health systems? Global Health 2008, 4:6 Frenk J: Bridging the divide: comprehensive reform to improve health in Mexico Lecture for WHO Commission ... funding for health system strengthening [6,7] Recent proponents of a “diagonal” approach to global health funding similarly argue that disease-specific funding should be used for wider health system...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20

... further information about the utility of the Japanese version of the MHI5 Another limitation is that the data set was obtained from a 1995 survey Further studies are needed to confirm the performance ... cut-off point For each score, we took the sum of the sensitivity and the specificity The score with the highest sum was used as the cut-off point One cut-off point was determined for each of the three ... found that the MHI-3 performs almost as well as the MHI-5 The best-performing single item was the one asking about "feeling downhearted and blue," which was also the case in the US [6] The usefulness...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... general health and the effect of the general health score varies with mental health To illustrate the form of the interaction, the effect of increasing mental health score is presented for each ... between the SF-36 mental health score and the SF-36 general health score means that both scores are significant predictors of the number of mental health visits, and that the effect of the mental health ... neglected if others consume attention[41] Alternatively, these individuals may have their mental health care needs addressed within the context of physician visits coded for their other health care problems...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 15:22

... health care is organized using a decentralized model with Primary Health Care often being the first service the patient contacts before being referred to Specialized Mental Health Services The present ... mental health hospitals constitute most of the Specialised Mental Health Care for the population Mental Health Services in Helse Fonna receives approximately 300 referral letters per month There ... dependent for achieving a positive outcome for the patient (3) and thirdly, the patients who use mental health care services often have low level of functioning and lack the ability to ensure that they...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:20