Thanatology 2200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Puberty, Congenital Disorder, 18 Months
2 Oct 2016
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4 programs of care for persons who are coping with dying: acute care: hospitals, chronic care: long-term care facilities, home care: home health care programs, end-of-life care: hospice programs. Designed to treat specific diseases & return people to society. Provide a place to live, help with everyday living, & nursing care. Paid for by medicare, medicaid, private insurance & out of pocket payments. Other ltc facilities range from intermediate care to residential care facilities. Residents in ltc may be short stayers or long stayers . Almost 22% of all deaths occur in ltc facilities. Experienced rapid growth & expansion over past 2 decades. Deliver services in the patient"s own home. Medicare, medicaid, & personal financial resources pay for services. Dame cicely saunders, founded st. christopher"s hospice, in london, england, in 1967. In the u. s. , hospice care began in september 1974 with a community-based home care program in new haven, connecticut. 5,000 hospice programs exist in all 50 states.
