Advantages And Disadvantages Of Long Term Care

Homework week six by :Mfrah Alanazi
Date : 06-23-2016

Long-Term Care and Mental Health Services
1) More than three-fourths of the elderly needing assistance is cared for by family members, many of whom work outside the home. What implications does this have for employers? What types of employer policies might be appropriate regarding those engaged in providing long-term care for a family member
Juggling caregiving responsibilities and work might be very stressful for employees. In most cases, caregiving activities will always conflict with work. Consequently, a worker might be forced to retire at a much earlier age to take care of an ill spouse. This is a blow to the employer who might lose a much talented and knowledgeable worker. Hiring

Consumers are at the center in the assurance of quality long-term care. The challenge that regulators face is to come up with a mechanism through which quality care can be achieved. Then again, there is a need for them to let consumers voice their opinions on quality care but they have not yet devised a way through which this can be made possible. Consumers are not well informed on quality home care, and there are no educational materials on this that can help them.
3) Shortages of health care personnel in the long-term care industry pose critical future challenges to the health care system. Review reasons for these shortages. Suggest government and institutional policy changes that might help attract more workers to this industry.
Shortage of health care personnel in the long-term industry is as a result of a number of factors. For example, long term health care professionals have been receiving small payments that have made them opt to leave this profession. Perhaps increasing the salaries and wages that personnel in this industry receive might attract more people to take this job. The government also depended on a lot in retaining the existing long-term workers. These are people that will be aging as well. Maybe choosing to hire a younger generation of long-term health care providers might solve the

Firstly, the desire to get mental health is shunned from because a person fears to be stigmatized. This remains as the number one reason for people not taking mental health services. Then again, access to this service comes with a high price tag. This means only few will consider paying for mental health and will view it unnecessary. Then again, mental health care providers are scarce and hard to get. And lastly, most individuals are uneducated in mental issues, and they will never recognize when they are sick and need to be assisted.
5) In what ways did WW I and WWII affect awareness of mental health disorders among the federal government and the American public? With what results?
Some of the soldiers who came home from the two wars were visibly psychologically affected. It is from ex-soldiers that mental sickness as the shell shock was first diagnosed. As a result, public awareness of the need to examine mental illnesses on not only soldiers but the public as well were raised. For this reason, the military developed its mental health hospitals and so did the public.
6) As mental illness treatment shifted from the institutional to the community setting, public dollars were allocated on the basis of units of service delivered, not on results of care. Discuss the implications of this policy on the deinstitutionalized severely mentally