Hospice
This benefit covers the hospice team, medical equipment, and symptom management medications.
What is the Medicare hospice benefit?
This community consists of multiple groups who lack either material access, social contact, or are psychologically deprived; all of whom face systemic issues related to navigating healthcare systems due to age.
What is the underprivileged geriatric community?
The vast majority of seniors prefer to live in this setting over an assisted living environment.
What is their own home?
In 2030, there are projected to be 1.2 million adults within these 2 categories.
What are senior adults over the age of 65 and intellectual and developmental disabilities?
This is the age at which a person is considered to be elderly or geriatric when homeless.
What is 50 years old?
Although some believe hospice hastens death, this is the average length of hospice enrollment.
What is 76 days?
Persons over this age claim more frequent and longer visits to the hospital than any other age group.
What is 65?
According to Dr. Vivek Murthy, former US Surgeon General, experiencing this produces the same effects on the human body as smoking 15 cigarettes per day.
What is loneliness?
These people experience a particularly high rate of dementia due to the amyloid precursor protein being over expressed on the triplicated 21st chromosome.
What are people with Down Syndrome?
This initiative to repeal Denver's camping ban had $2.45 million in contributions against it in May 2019 leading to its defeat.
What is Initiative 300?
A prognosis of this length is one of the Medicare requirements for hospice enrollment, although some people do live longer.
What is 6 months?
Hospitalization rates of these individuals were nearly triple those of other patients at the same hospital who had secure housing and social support.
What is the geriatric homeless population?
To combat the societal ills related to isolation, the British Government created this to provide solutions from the micro to the macro level.
What is the Ministry of Loneliness?
A family medical history, historical baseline, and personal observations can all be reported by this “personal historian”.
What is a caregiver or familial caregiver?
This is the leading cause of homelessness for the elderly in the United States.
What is a severe housing cost burden?
This location is the most utilized at 48.2% for patients on hospice at the time of their death.
What is their home?
Secured community services such as access to primary care, social support, and ensuring service to minority populations and low-income communities are examples of this.
What are supportive health factors?
According to the Eden Alternative Method, these represent the three plagues that contribute to the majority of suffering for the elderly.
What are loneliness, helplessness and boredom?
Research shows that there are structural disparities for caregivers in rural areas as compared to those operating with this environment?
What is the urban environment?
This generation is at a higher risk for becoming homeless and has contributed to the increase in geriatric homelessness.
Who are the baby boomers?
This diagnosis has the longest average length of enrollment in hospice at 110 days.
What is dementia?
Lack of policy and support for marginalized populations in the healthcare environment has led to this amongst this demographic.
What is re-hospitalization and a need for higher care?
Social engagement, active lifestyle, healthy diet and this have shown to provide tremendous benefits to an elderly individual’s health.
What is optimism?
Commitment to the individual, willingness to advocate for those who cannot communicate for themselves, and person-centered care may refer to which NASW ideal?
What is the dignity and worth of the person?
Compared to the 11% in 1990, today this percentage of the homeless are now aged 50 or older.
What is approximately 50%?