Many services are available to help seniors stay in their homes. These services are increasing in popularity as more seniors are choosing community care over institutionalized care. Two main services that assist seniors in this area are adult day care and home health care.
Find out an adult day care and a home health care in your vicinity or using the Internet and create a 1- to 2-page report summarizing their services offered, successes, and failures.
Based on the knowledge gained from your research, respond to the following questions:
- Adult day care programs began more like a social model; however, over time, they have developed as a medical model. Do you agree or disagree? Why?
- Adult day care is being described as gap filler between institutional and noninstitutional care? Do you agree or disagree? Why?
- What population comprises the largest group receiving care in adult day care programs? Why?
- Do you think receiving patients with more medical problems has impacted adult day care services? Why? How has this effected staffing?
- Which success factor has had the greatest impact on the cost-effectiveness of health care services? How?
- What impact has home health care had on the quality of life for consumers? Provide examples to support your answer.
- Is there a time when home health care and adult day care is no longer appropriate for a senior? What criteria are used to establish this?
Use the Internet to locate a peer-reviewed article describing a study evaluating an ethnic group and its health disparities. Make sure that your peer-reviewed article is not more than five years old, as you want to look at the most current evidence available.
In your posting:
- Identify the ethnic group and its health disparity.
- Describe the epidemiological concepts, data analysis methods, tools, and databases used in the study.
- Evaluate the ethnic group’s contributions to the study.
- Summarize the study and its conclusions.
Your initial posting should be at least 150 words, and you must reference the work of another writer (either as a quotation, paraphrase, or summary) to provide support for your ideas. The source can be the course text, another relevant book, any assigned reading, or an article you find on your own through the Capella University Library. When you incorporate the other writer’s ideas in your work, use APA citation style to give credit to that writer. Remember that an APA citation includes both the in-text citation (the author’s last name and the year of publication) and the full reference for the source.
