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Geriatric medicine: an approaching crisis
- Authors:
- LANOIE Patricia, FLYNN Bret
- Journal article citation:
- Generations, 25(1), Spring 2001, pp.80-84.
- Publisher:
- American Society on Aging
Too frequently, illnesses in older people are misdiagnosed, overlooked, or dismissed as a part of the normal process of aging, leading to needless suffering for the patient and family and higher costs to health insurance providers. Lack of proper training of physicians of this geriatric population results in more hospitalisations, more visits to specialists, preventable nursing home admissions, and higher costs to the health-care systems. Discusses how few, if any, medical schools in the United States currently offer adequate training in geriatrics. This situation exists despite evidence that would indicate that the reverse should be the case.
The backbone of the long-term care workforce
- Author:
- NOELKER Linda S.
- Journal article citation:
- Generations, 25(1), Spring 2001, pp.85-91.
- Publisher:
- American Society on Aging
This article begins by reviewing recent research on informal caregivers and projected trends to explore the likelihood that information helpers will continue to be primary providers of long-term care in the future. Next, new research findings on sources of stress experienced by paraprofessional workers caring for elderly nursing homes residents and the impact stress on job satisfaction are presented. The article concludes with a review of interventions and supportive services to enhance the health and well-being of informal and paraprofessional caregivers.
Direct-care health care workers: you get what you pay for
- Authors:
- DAWSON Steven L., SURPIN Rick
- Journal article citation:
- Generations, 25(1), Spring 2001, pp.23-28.
- Publisher:
- American Society on Aging
The long-term care system in the United States long ago structured itself on the presumptions of a seemingly endless supply of low-incomes individuals (usually women, and disproportionately women of colour) willing to work as certified nurse's aides, home health aids, and personal care attendants. Both providers and consumer presumed that these workers would always be available to offer care and companionship in long-term care settings - despite low-quality jobs that kept them working, but poor. Now, however, direct-care staffing vacancies are spreading throughout nursing homes and home car agencies across the country. The very future of the industry now rests on an ability to attract direct-care workers within an increasingly competitive environment. The authors argue that in order to survive, let alone provide high-quality care, the long-term care system must restructure and must significantly improve the quality of paraprofessional employment.
Allied health workers and care for frail elders in the twenty-first century
- Author:
- BONDER Bette R.
- Journal article citation:
- Generations, 25(1), Spring 2001, pp.76-78.
- Publisher:
- American Society on Aging
Allied health professions in the United States have been profoundly affected by the country's changing demographics. In particular, the increase in the number of older adults, and the accompanying increase in the rate of chronic diseases affecting functional abilities, has required growing attention to this population by allied health practitioners. Allied health includes occupational therapists and physical therapists, speech-language pathologists and audiologists, among other. All these professions emphasise functional ability as the core of their interventions. Personnel issues in allied health reflect the complex interaction of demographic realities that expand the demand for such practitioners and the political and fiscal realties that reduce the funding available to provide their services. After a long period of sustained growth, all the direct care allied health professions are experiencing a tumultuous period in their history, at the very time that need is growing.
The potential of technology to ease the care provider's burden
- Author:
- MANN William C.
- Journal article citation:
- Generations, 25(1), Spring 2001, pp.44-48.
- Publisher:
- American Society on Aging
High technology homecare has been defined as "those in-home methods of diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation that are physically embodied in specialised equipment and related supplies and services". This article will discuss several categories of assistive devices that render caregiving physically or emotionally easier, including those that assist with basic activities of daily living, instrumental activities of daily living, environmental control, and monitoring of health and behaviour.
Geriatric nurse practitioners: vital to the future of health care elders
- Authors:
- FULNER Terry, FLAHERTY Ellen, MEDLEY Leslie
- Journal article citation:
- Generations, 25(1), Spring 2001, pp.72-75.
- Publisher:
- American Society on Aging
The increasing presence of nurse practitioners in health care in the United States has brought exciting change to the practice setting. In the early 1970s, there were few nurse practitioners in this country, and most were prepared with certificate programmes. Today there are more than 70,000 in the United States. Their roles range from primary care in clinics to acute-care consultation in the hospital. Nurse practitioners have been in increasing demand since the advent of managed health care: numerous studies document their efficacy, and nurse practitioners frequently command lower salaries than physicians who might perform the same role. The authors took a look at their role - and at the opportunities that changing circumstances offer nurse practitioners.
The effects of changing values on the provision of long-term care
- Authors:
- LONGINO Charles F., POLIVKA Larry
- Journal article citation:
- Generations, 25(1), Spring 2001, pp.64-68.
- Publisher:
- American Society on Aging
This article asks what the long-term-care workforce in the USA will look like in the future. This depends upon the changing values on which long-term care itself is based. Argues that there are some major changes under way that may frame long-term care in the new ways in the future, thereby affecting both workforce and resources.
Achieving cultural competence: the challenge for clients and health care workers in a multicultural society
- Authors:
- BOMDER Bette, MARTIN Laura, MIRACLE Andrew
- Journal article citation:
- Generations, 25(1), Spring 2001, pp.35-42.
- Publisher:
- American Society on Aging
Increasingly, health care practitioners are recognising the importance of culture in their interactions with clients and colleagues. As the United States population becomes more diverse, practitioners face situations in which their clients' cultural backgrounds are clearly different from their own. Argues that skills that enhance care providers' abilities to recognise different cultural values, beliefs, and practices and to address these factors in intervention are likely to lead to more successful treatment outcomes. Further, professional groups are placing greater value on such skills not only because their client populations are more diverse group of individuals is joining the ranks of health care professions.