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Jennifer Klein - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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iatrogenesis within Long Term Care facilities
Occupational Therapy in Health Care, 2002Co-Authors: Jennifer KleinAbstract:Seniors living within Long Term Care facilities have higher incidences of frailness, chronic disease, and deterioration as compared with seniors living in the community. There is increasing evidence within the literature that some of this deterioration is caused by the very facilities they are living in. This article discusses the iatrogenic factors associated with living in Long Term Care facilities and the consequences of such factors on older adults. Following this, an exploration of the relevancy of this issue for occupational therapists will take place. Occupational therapists must be particularly alert to the dangers of iatrogenic effects and be concerned with making changes within the Long Term Care system to prevent further harm to older adults and work on promoting an environment that promotes optimal health.
John Degelau - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Scabies in Long-Term Care facilities.
Infection control and hospital epidemiology, 1992Co-Authors: John DegelauAbstract:The common parasitic infestation of scabies is an international microscopic terrorist, frequently occurring in Long-Term Care facilities. Disruptive outbreaks have been reported in Long-Term Care facilities throughout North America, Europe, and Israel. Once scabies is reported, the normal operations of a facility may be disrupted for several months at a time. Psychogenic scabies, threatened mass resignations of staff, and extensive local media coverage have been unwelcome sequelae of Long-Term Care facility outbreaks. When confronted with an infestation, nursing staff and management are frequently left on their own to come up with a plan to eradicate the infestation. This may result in either inadequate treatment of infected individuals or excessive measures for the Long-Term Care facility, such as closing admissions, banning visitors, and periodic mass “prophylaxis” treatment. Effective and efficient management of scabies outbreaks requires knowledge of the unique features of Long-Term Care scabies and a systematic, yet practical, approach to treatment.
Medha N. Munshi - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Diabetes in Long-Term Care Facilities
Current Diabetes Reports, 2014Co-Authors: Aaditya Singhal, Alissa R. Segal, Medha N. MunshiAbstract:With the aging of the population and Longer life expectancies, the prevalence of population with multiple chronic medical conditions has increased. Difficulty managing these conditions as people age (because of changes in physical, functional, or cognitive abilities and the complexity of many treatment regimens), has led to more individuals with multiple medical conditions admitted to the Long-Term Care facilities. Older adults with diabetes residing in the Long-Term facilities represent the most vulnerable of this cohort. Studies that specifically target diabetes management in older population are lacking and those that target diabetes management in the Long-Term Care facilities are even fewer. The lack of knowledge regarding the Care of the elderly residing in Long-Term Care with diabetes may lead to treatment failure and higher risk of hyperglycemia, as well as hypoglycemia. In aging populations, hypoglycemia has the potential for catastrophic consequences. To avoid this, the management of older population with diabetes and other medical comorbidities residing in Long-Term Care facilities requires a more holistic approach compared with focusing on individual chronic disease goal achievement.
Pierre Pestieau - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Long-Term Care
Oxford Scholarship Online, 2018Co-Authors: Pierre Pestieau, Mathieu LefebvreAbstract:This chapter is concerned with the rise in Long-Term Care needs. Long-Term Care concerns individuals who are no Longer able to carry out basic daily activities. Most of the Care is currently provided by informal Caregivers, mainly the family, while the role of formal Care provided by the state or the market remains small. The chapter explains, however, why informal Care is expected to decline and analyses the low private insurance development, the so-called Long-Term Care insurance puzzle. These two factors, the decreasing role of the family and a thin insurance market, plead for the development of a full fledge social insurance for Long-Term Care. The chapter then looks at the optimal design of such an insurance.
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Long Term Care insurance puzzle
Financing Long-Term Care in Europe, 2012Co-Authors: Pierre Pestieau, Gregory PonthiereAbstract:The purpose of this paper is to examine the alternative explanatory factors of the so-called Long Term Care insurance puzzle, namely the fact that so few people purchase a Long Term Care insurance whereas this would seem to be a rational conduct given the high probability of dependence and the high costs of Long Term Care. For that purpose, we survey various theoretical and empirical studies of the demand and supply of Long Term Care insurance. We discuss the vicious circle in which the Long Term Care insurance market is stuck: that market is thin because most people find the existing insurance products too expensive, and, at the same time, the products supplied by insurance companies are too expensive because of the thinness of the market. Moreover, we also show that, whereas some explanations of the puzzle involve a perfect rationality of agents on the LTC insurance market, others rely, on the contrary, on various behavioral imperfections.
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The Long Term Care Insurance Puzzle
2011Co-Authors: Pierre Pestieau, Gregory PonthiereAbstract:The purpose of this paper is to examine the alternative explanatory factors of the so-called Long Term Care insurance puzzle, namely the fact that so few people purchase a Long Term Care insurance whereas this would seem to be a rational conduct given the high probability of dependence and the high costs of Long Term Care. For that purpose, we survey various theoretical and empirical studies of the demand and supply of Long Term Care insurance. We discuss the vicious circle in which the Long Term Care insurance market is stuck: that market is thin because most people find the existing insurance products too expensive, and, at the same time, the products supplied by insurance companies are too expensive because of the thinness of the market. Moreover, we also show that, whereas some explanations of the puzzle involve a perfect rationality of agents on the LTC insurance market, others rely, on the contrary, on various behavioral imperfections. (This abstract was borrowed from another version of this item.)
Gregory Ponthiere - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Long Term Care insurance puzzle
Financing Long-Term Care in Europe, 2012Co-Authors: Pierre Pestieau, Gregory PonthiereAbstract:The purpose of this paper is to examine the alternative explanatory factors of the so-called Long Term Care insurance puzzle, namely the fact that so few people purchase a Long Term Care insurance whereas this would seem to be a rational conduct given the high probability of dependence and the high costs of Long Term Care. For that purpose, we survey various theoretical and empirical studies of the demand and supply of Long Term Care insurance. We discuss the vicious circle in which the Long Term Care insurance market is stuck: that market is thin because most people find the existing insurance products too expensive, and, at the same time, the products supplied by insurance companies are too expensive because of the thinness of the market. Moreover, we also show that, whereas some explanations of the puzzle involve a perfect rationality of agents on the LTC insurance market, others rely, on the contrary, on various behavioral imperfections.
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The Long Term Care Insurance Puzzle
2011Co-Authors: Pierre Pestieau, Gregory PonthiereAbstract:The purpose of this paper is to examine the alternative explanatory factors of the so-called Long Term Care insurance puzzle, namely the fact that so few people purchase a Long Term Care insurance whereas this would seem to be a rational conduct given the high probability of dependence and the high costs of Long Term Care. For that purpose, we survey various theoretical and empirical studies of the demand and supply of Long Term Care insurance. We discuss the vicious circle in which the Long Term Care insurance market is stuck: that market is thin because most people find the existing insurance products too expensive, and, at the same time, the products supplied by insurance companies are too expensive because of the thinness of the market. Moreover, we also show that, whereas some explanations of the puzzle involve a perfect rationality of agents on the LTC insurance market, others rely, on the contrary, on various behavioral imperfections. (This abstract was borrowed from another version of this item.)
