Gerontologic Health Care Facilities Flashcards
An institution with the primary function of: to provide inpatient
diagnostic and therapeutic services for a variety of medical and
surgical conditions
HOSPITAL
General hospitals admit individuals requiring a variety of services
Examples include:
medical, surgical, obstetric and pediatric
A hospital that admits only certain types of patients or with
specified illnesses or conditions
Other hospitals offer only specialty services
Example: psychiatric, pediatric, lung, kidney, cardio, and
infectious diseases
SPECIALTY HOSPITAL
A hospital that admits only certain types of patients or with
specified illnesses or conditions
Other hospitals offer only specialty services
Example: psychiatric, pediatric, lung, kidney, cardio, and
infectious diseases
SPECIALTY HOSPITAL
Any facility or establishment that is engaged in direct patient care on site
Example: Hospice care, nursing home, extended facilities,
and etc.
HEALTH CARE FACILITIES
Short period of time, acute care, and episodic care
It resolving/treating a new and acute illness
Short-term hospital stays (days to week), shortened hospital
stay environment
Professional care, home treatment, diagnostics, emergency
medical services
Central in planning services for the older adult upon discharge: follow-up care, transportation, home health aide and homemaking services, adult day care.
ACUTE CARE
goals of acute care
Health protection, health promotion and wellbeing of the older adult
Health-promotion strategies (smoking-cessation,
stress-management, weight-loss, or exercise)
The ongoing provision of care provides medical, functional,
psychological, social, environmental and spiritual care services
For patients with serious and persistent health conditions
To help optimize older adults’ functional independence and
well-being
CHRONIC CARE
Institutional organized health setting
It provides outpatient basic health services (surgeries and
treatments)
No overnight stay in hospital is required to ambulatory patients
AMBULATORY CARE
Non residential facility that offers daily nursing care and social
opportunities
It enables family members to carry on daily activities while the
older person is at the day care center
For adult who cannot be left at home alone but do not need to
be in an institution
ADULT DAY CARE (DAY THERAPY/CARE CENTER)
Services of ADULT DAY CARE
○ Nursing care
○ Treatment/medication
○ Nutrition
○ Socialization
○ Exercise programs
○ Stimulation
○ Counseling
○ Physical therapy
It facilitates continuity between day care and home care
Provides transitional care
○ Health
○ Nutrition
○ Daily living needs
ADULT DAY CARE
Goal of COMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES
Community-based services helps the older person maintain
independence
Informal sources of help in COMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES
Family, friends, church members, neighbors
Senior centers have social support, health promotion activities,
and nutritious noontime meal services
Community Services of help in COMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES
It include telephone reassurance, friendly visitors, home health
aides, homemakers, home repair, home-delivered meals, chore
services, employment resource
