living, adult daycare, long-term care, nursing homes (often called residential care), hospice care, and home care. Elderly care emphasizes the social and personal...
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Geriatrics (redirect from Health care of the elderly)
medicine, is a medical specialty focused on providing care for the unique health needs of the elderly. The term geriatrics originates from the Greek γέρων...
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Nursing home (redirect from Elderly Care Center)
care between the publicly and privately funded cares homes, leading to health policy reforms that assured the standard care practices for the elderly...
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Homecare (home care, in-home care), also known as domiciliary care, personal care or social care, is health care or supportive care provided in the individual...
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Old age (redirect from Elderly people)
in the Elderly", Psychiatric Times 25.4 (2008). McCall, W. V. (2004). "Sleep in the Elderly: Burden, Diagnosis, and Treatment". Primary Care Companion...
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The elderly population is one of the most vulnerable populations in the world of health care, mainly because of their susceptibility to contracting disease...
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administers a licensing regime to regulate residential care homes, under the Residential Care Homes (Elderly Persons) Ordinance, which was enacted in 1995. According...
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use wearable devices for tracking. Use-cases in assisted living and elderly care include: Fall detection Posture detection Occupancy detection Vital signs...
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which can make them unable to care for their daily needs. Various forms of long-term residential care are available for elderly people. A person or couple...
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International Collaboration for the Care of the Elderly is the international arm of National Initiative for the Care of the Elderly. ICCE is funded through the...
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Welfare in Sweden (section Elderly care)
prices. Elderly care in Sweden is the responsibility of the local municipalities. There are both retirement homes as well as home care, with home care on the...
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Elder abuse (redirect from Elderly abuse)
Statistics on Elderly Abuse Over Time". Nursing Home Abuse Center. Retrieved 2018-04-11. "Nursing Home Abuse Statistics - Elderly Care". Retrieved 2018-04-11...
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9 billion on long-term care services for the elderly in 2012. Nursing home spending accounts for the majority of long-term care expenditures, but the proportion...
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deployed, financed by the care funds. Further services amounting to €200 million will be spent. Care services in elderly care centres were compensated...
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the company provides elderly and vulnerable communities with care in their own homes, and allows families to arrange the care. Its technology, very similar...
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Caregiver (redirect from Care for others)
approximately 61.6 million people (referenced above) who are caring at home for family members including elderly parents, and spouses and children with disabilities...
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competition. As she is very close to her grandparents, her main advocacy is elderly care. Ganados was crowned by outgoing Miss Universe Philippines 2018 and Miss...
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Look up Care, care, -care, carer, or caring in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Care may refer to: CARE (New Zealand), Citizens Association for Racial...
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A Place for Mom (category Elderly care)
A Place for Mom, founded in 2000, is a privately held, for-profit senior care referral service headquartered in New York, New York. The company provides...
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Hospice (redirect from Hospice care)
Hospice care is a type of health care that focuses on the palliation of a terminally ill patient's pain and symptoms and attending to their emotional...
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Program of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) are programs within the United States that provide comprehensive health services for individuals age...
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Home care (also referred to as domiciliary care, social care, or in-home care) is supportive care provided in the home. Care may be provided by licensed...
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Adult daycare center (redirect from Adult day care)
individualized patient-centered care. Assisted living Elderly care "About Adult Day Services – NADSA: adult day care services". www.nadsa.org. Retrieved...
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Term Care Benefit Plan is an option to sell a life insurance policy in return for 30 to 60 percent of the policy value toward long term health care. A funeral...
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Life Care Centers of America is the largest privately held long-term elderly care company in the U.S., with facilities across 27 states, and the third...
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Geriatric care management is the process of planning and coordinating care of the elderly and others with physical and/or mental impairments to meet their...
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Bluebird Care is a franchise and brand providing home care services to the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. The company has just over 200 franchises...
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Malnutrition (section Elderly)
countries, especially among nursing home residents and in acute care hospitals. In the elderly, undernutrition is more commonly due to physical, psychological...
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focused on providing for dependents such as children, the sick, and the elderly, care work also refers to work done in the immediate service of others (regardless...
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care. Long-term care insurance covers care generally not covered by health insurance, Medicare, or Medicaid. Individuals who require long-term care are...
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