HTW 303 Lecture Notes - Injury Prevention, Elder Abuse, Cath Lab

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Public health challenges: ensuring quality health services for the elderly, caregiver issues and strain, maintaining quality of life. Ensuring health services: less than 50% of those over 65 receive the recommended core clinical health services. Increase the number of health providers trained in elder care: monetary costs" include- lost time at work and the purchase of incidentals and. Caregiver issues and strain: caregivers are often unpaid family members. Otc medications: stress & strain, leading cause of long-term care placement, growing concerns with elder abuse, need for affordable or medicare covered services to provide daycare and respite care. Impacted by illness, chronic disease and disability: which in turn, impact on their abilities to maintain independence and life in their home, need for affordable and/or medicare covered services to support independent living in and community the community. Chronic disease, impact: causes 7/10 deaths each year, heart disease, cancer, and stroke alone cause more than 50% of all deaths/yr.

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