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Health Care Providers Working with the Elderly. Chapter 10. Health Care Teams:. The team consists of at least the health care provider and the patient or client whose life is directly affected by the care given. Family members & friends are team players as well. Three types of teams:.
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Health Care Teams: • The team consists of at least the health care provider and the patient or client whose life is directly affected by the care given. Family members & friends are team players as well.
Three types of teams: • Multidisciplinary: each member has his or her own role. • Interdisciplinary: patient goals are shared by members of the team; each provider works with the patient to promote the overriding goals of health care. • Transdisciplinary: members also share their expertise& their individual disciplinary roles are not always clear-cut.Carryover is common.
Case Manager: • To ensure effective coordination of services. • Seen as a tool to promote cost-effective outcomes. • Involves trouble shooting & problem solving, patient advocacy & effectively determining realistic outcomes of service provision.
Dietician • Whenever proper nutrition could help improve someone’s quality of life, they reach out to the public to teach, monitor, & advise.
Emergency Medical Services • Since geriatric abuse is on the rise, the EMS person may be the first person who is able to see the signs of abuse.
Gerontological Nursing: • Although nurses have always cared for the elderly, gerontological nursing practice has only recently developed into a respected specialty.
Occupational Therapy: • Many elderly think that they do not need OT. • Includes bathing, dressing, grooming, & sexual expression. • The patient’s goals must be considered & respected as part of the rehab.process.
Physical Therapy: • P.T. includes examining pts. with impairments, functional limitations, & disability or other health-related conditions in order to determine a diagnosis, prognosis, & intervention.
Radiography & Nuclear Medicine: • Good pt.care skills. • Imaging tables are hard, some procedures require them to remain lying on the table for long times.
Respiratory Care: • An estimated 45% of those older than the age of 70 exhibit dyspnea on exertion, while 65% of men & 48% of women have a cardiopulmonary disorder.
Social Work: • The professional activity of helping individuals, groups, or communities enhance or restore their capacity for social functioning & creating societal conditions favorable to this goal.
Social Workers: Hospital or medical: • To work with the elderly pt.in determining a plan following discharge from the hospital • Involves doing a thorough assessment of the needs of the pt. Speaking with family members & locating resources in the community. Collaborates with others involved with care & at times acts as an advocate in ensuring that the pt’s wishes are followed.
Speech-Language Pathologist (SLP): • Provides evaluation & intervention to persons with speech, language, voice, fluency, cognition, hearing, & swallowing (dysphagia) deficits.
Areas addressed by the SLP. • Speech • Voice • Fluency • Cognition • Language • Hearing • Dysphagia
Therapeutic Recreation: • The skilled nursing facility must provide.. An ongoing program, directed by a qualified professional, of activities designed to meet the interests & the physical, mental & psychosocial well-being of each resident.
Pew Health Professions Commission Report: • Suggests the necessity for better educational preparation. • Lack of may only foster negative attitudes & stereotypes toward the aging population.
American Society of Allied Health Professions (ASAHP) • An increasing % of clinical contact for allied health students will be with older patients. In recognition of this: • All allied health educational programs must provide comprehensive yet well-defined geriatric curricula & ample opportunity for high quality geriatric clinical experience.
