Examples of Respite Care in the following topics:
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- This broad term encompasses such services as assisted living, adult day care, long-term care, nursing homes, hospice care, and in-home care.
- For example, many countries in Asia use government-established elderly care quite infrequently, preferring the traditional methods of being cared for by younger generations of family members.
- One relatively new service in the United States that can help keep the elderly in their homes longer is respite care.
- This type of care allows caregivers the opportunity to go on vacation or a business trip and know that their elder has good quality temporary care.
- Another unique type of care cropping in U.S. hospitals is called acute care of elder units, or ACE units, which provide "a homelike setting" within a medical center specifically for the elderly.
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- Even within the same country, regional differences exist with respect to care for the elderly, often depending on the resources available in a given community or area.
- These facilities allow the elderly to keep a sense of independence while providing them with the care and supervision necessary to stay safe.
- Other elderly people are cared for by members of their family; however, eldercare in the United States is often viewed as a burden by family members who are busy living their own lives, making assisted living and respite-care facilities a commonly chosen option.
- While countries like the United States and Japan focus more on independent care, Indian culture places greater emphasis on respect and family care for the elderly.
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- Day care, in which children are cared for by a person other than their legal guardians, contributes to their socialization.
- Examples of day care range from the next door neighbor watching one's children to hiring a babysitter to large day care facilities that resemble preschools.
- Child care is provided in nurseries or crèches, or by a nanny or family child care provider caring for children in their own homes.
- The day care industry is a continuum from personal parental care to large, regulated institutions.
- Some advocate that day care is inherently inferior to parental care.
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- Peace negotiations between the United States and Great Britain created a temporary respite from the escalation, but in November 1782, Continental George Rogers Clark delivered the final blow of the Year of Blood, destroying several Shawnee towns in the Ohio Country.
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- Child care involves caring for and supervising a child or children, usually from infancy to age thirteen.
- The majority of child care institutions that are available require that child care providers have extensive training in first aid and are CPR certified.
- If a parent or extended family is unable to care for the children, orphanages and foster homes are a way of providing for children's care, housing, and schooling.
- The two main types of child care options are center-based care and home-based care.
- Analyze the different types of child care in the United States, from parental care to center-based care
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- Health care economics is a segment of economic study pertaining to the value, effectiveness, and efficiency in health care services.
- Health care economics is a segment of economic study pertaining to the value, effectiveness, and efficiency in medical care and health care services and issues.
- Health care is a significant concern for patients, insurance companies, governments, businesses, health care providers, researchers, and non-profits.
- Understanding the basic factors involved, both logistically and economically, will provide useful context in defining health care and the medical care services.
- Demand for Health Care (Box C): The overall health care demand, which is a complex array of inputs that can be summarized as health care seeking behaviors, and what factors influence them (i.e. externalities, price, time, perspectives, etc.).
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- Health care can impact people beyond the person receiving and the person providing the care, causing positive and negative externalities.
- In health care, the critical externality in most systems is the care provided to others.
- You benefit from a positive externality of others receiving health care.
- Your health care costs are also affected by others choosing to purchase health care.
- Vaccinations: An interesting new development in health care is the advent of vaccines.
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- Gender discrimination in health care manifests itself primarily as the difference that men and women pay for their insurance premium.
- Gender discrimination in health care could be changing in the United States.
- In the context of the 2012 contraceptive mandate debate, health care professionals' assessments that contraception is an integral component for women's health care, regardless of sexual activity, went largely unaddressed.
- This bill is seen as a vital step in combating gender inequalities in the health care system.
- Identify three ways in which gender inequality in health care manifests itself in the United States
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- The debate over access to health care in the United States concerns whether or not the government should provide universal health care.
- Health care policy can be defined as the decisions, plans, and actions that are undertaken to achieve specific health care goals within a society.
- In many countries individuals must pay for health care directly out-of-pocket in order to gain access to health care goods and services.
- Health care in the United States is provided by many different organizations.
- Single payer health care poster about the United States National Health Care Act.
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- Peace negotiations
between the U.S. and Great Britain created a temporary respite in hostilities during
The Year of Blood; but in November 1782, Brigadier General George Rogers Clark delivered
the final blow in The Year of Blood, destroying several Shawnee towns in the
Ohio Country.