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Mary Neumayer

Local Nursing Students Provide In-Home Care for Elderly: Student Research Center - powe... - 2 views

  • online portal designed to link people seeking in-home care for older adults to nursing students and CNAs, is helping connect caregivers and care seekers located throughout Indiana and the surrounding regions
Emily Brown

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  • 10 million people
  • $26,096 for each person
  • $9,459 for home
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  • community-based services for each older person or adult with a physical disability.
  • Little relief is in sight for states'
  • long-term care (LTC) services,
  • them continue living at hom
  • e or in community-based settings
  • sort of care generally costs
  • "A state that offers Medicaid doesn't have the option of not paying for nursing facilities under Medicaid, while they do have control over whether to pay for home/community-based services,
  • long-term care financing and senior health insurance issues
  • could be as high as $140 billion
  • $60 billion of that sum would accrue to the states.
  • 25,000 people enrolled in Minnesota Senior H
  • ealth Options (MSHO),
  • Thomas von Sternberg, MD, HealthPartners
  • variety of creative contracts,
  • 40% in premiums.
  • 8% of the market, recently announced that it will halt new sales of LTC insurance.
  • LTC expenses.
  • Medicaid to cover additional
  • approximately $50 to $75 per day.
  • "This enhanced match is actually targeted to states that are furthest behind in these areas."
  • 20 years. She is based in Eugene, Ore.
  • Maryland,
  • New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Texas, Virginia and Tennessee.
  • LTC system that is proactive.
  • 75 members.
  • MCO relies on a mix of nurses
  • social workers to develop care plans for each person.
  • plus face-to-face
  • 20,000 people enrolled
  • 3,000 served by Amerigroup.
  • Since 1999
  • 34%."
  • 1,500 patients
  • 20,000
  • 449,000.
  • 2007,
  • 36 practices, reaching
  • 24 hours
  • LTC Medicaid,
Mary Neumayer

SIRS: The Future of Reading: Literacy Debate: Online, R U Really Reading? - 0 views

  • Internet has created a new kind of reading
  • children with dyslexia or other learning difficulties,
  • more comfortable to search and read online
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  • Reading skills are also valued by employers.
  • 90 percent of employers
  • very important" for workers with bachelor's degrees.
  • those who score higher on reading tests tend to earn higher incomes
  • home Internet access to low-income students
  • improve standardized reading test scores
  • Web readers are persistently weak at judging whether information is trustworthy
  • Web may be a better way to glean information.
Emily Brown

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  • In 2012,
  • over age 65
  • $45,657--more
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  • average $14,452
  • pay 70% of care costs;
  • patients will rise from $203 billion this year to $1.2 trillion by 2050.
  • patients--about 96%--are on
  • 500,000 to 800,000 Alzheime
  • just two of many goals; others include more research and services across multiple federal agencies, accelerating treatment development and improving early diagnosis.
  • $71,917,
  • $26,869 per person in 2012, while the costs for those in a residential facility averaged
  • 92 PACE programs in 29 states with 29,000 enrollees, Greenwood says.
  • says.
  • PACE is a lower cost approach since providers are paid 85% of what the state would expect to pay for fee-
  • 8% are in nursing homes
  • 150 to 180 participants at each center. Some PACE programs have over 1,000
  • including San Francisco, Denver and New York City. About half of the programs operate with more than one center.
  • long-term services to Medicare and Medicaid enrollees that include healthcare,
  • care coordination, nutrition, family services and administrative support
kenzie flowers

Two Pe Ell Council Seats Open in General Election: Student Research Center - powered by... - 0 views

  • Lee, a retired nursing assistant, said she wants to continue serving on the council and stay involved in the community like she has for more than 30 years.
  • The public feels like they are shut out,
  • Ken Rollins, an emergency medical technician who served two tours in Vietnam during his seven years in the military, is running for the Position 2 seat against fellow newcomer Lonnie Willey.
Tori Collier

Family bands together to face challenges: Student Research Center - powered by EBSCOhost - 0 views

  • A report by the Pew Research Center said that nearly half ” 47 percent ” of adults in their 40s and 50s have a parent age 65 or older and are either raising a young child or financially supporting a grown child (age 18 or older). And about one in seven middle-aged adults (15 percent) is providing financial support to both an aging parent and a child.
  • About three years ago, Izzo was diagnosed with Ramsay Hunt Syndrome.
  • "It is shingles in your ears, and Bells palsy -- a combination
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  • "Her baseline changed. She had no balance. She lost the hearing in one of her ears. It seems like wide open spaces make her unsteady. In the house she utilizes the walker or the cane, depending on what kind of day she's having."
  • "I worry about . depression, if we're running around all the time with our jobs, and she's home for an extended amount of time and someone is not with her."
  • Care-giving responsibilities could almost be classified as a second job for Celeste Fischer and her husband, who both have full-time day jobs.
  • The increased attention to the sandwich generation in recent years probably has its roots in many demographic trends, the bureau reports. As life expectancy increases, more middle-aged people tend to have parents who are still alive. Additionally, these parents probably have fewer children, so there might be fewer siblings with whom to share the burden.
kenzie flowers

Nurses hold protest in Tehran: Student Research Center - powered by EBSCOhost - 0 views

  • Sharifi Muqaddam stated that new departments were opened in the hospital and the demands of patients have increased by 2-3 times. Therefore, the nurses were required to work additional hours which contradicts their contracts. According to law, the nurses can work an additional 80 hours, however, they had to work an additional 200 hours.
  • Nurses have held a protest in the Imam Khomeini Hospital
  • protesting the lack of medical personnel and a forced increase of their working hou
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  • Iranian hospitals face a nurse shortage, the Iranian media reported. The majority of the nurses leave the country believing that they will get higher salaries abroad.
Tori Collier

Nursing homes fail to report dengue cases in North Bengal: Student Research Center - po... - 0 views

  • Speaking to mediapersons on Monday, Rudranath Bhattacharya, the Trinamool Congress MLA from Siliguri and chairman of the standing committee on health, said that of the 37 private nursing homes in the Siliguri Municipal Corporation (SMC) area, not more than 19 or 20 have been sending timely reports to government authorities on the number of dengue cases.
  • Addressing the media crew, Bhattacharya said 145 confirmed cases of dengue have been reported from Siliguri and the adjoining areas between September 1 and 15.
  • Though all nursing home authorities in the area had been sent invites to attend Monday's meeting, those of only 29 such facilities showed up.
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  • The MLA asked the erring healthcare units to comply with the Clinical Establishment Act and send in timely reports on the number of dengue cases, failing which the state health department could move to cancel their licenses.
  • While mayor Gangotri Dutta blamed the state health department for failing to contain the spread of the disease, local Trinamool leaders put the onus on the civic body, saying it lacked the urgency to deal with the situation.
kenzie flowers

Nurse roster data 'wrong': Student Research Center - powered by EBSCOhost - 0 views

  • The NSW Nurses and Midwives Association sought an emergency listing in the Industrial Relations Commission on Monday after Hunter New England Local Health refused the union's request for an external review of staffing levels
  • A union spokesman said the nurses' concerns about "constant unreasonable workloads" involved nurses working through breaks, working unpaid overtime, being unable to access annual leave, and operations starting at the end of the scheduled session leading to operating theatre overruns.
  • concerns that the numbers and data management have used [to make their staffing calculations] is wrong,
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  • resulted in John Hunter Hospital budgeting for a lower nursing staff level than what is required",
  • on occasions, due to patient safety, operating theatre nurses may work through their allocated breaks,
  • Sometimes operating theatre sessions are extended to enable surgeons to complete surgery lists without disadvantaging patients
  • Any time staff are required to work beyond their rostered shift hours due to theatre running over schedule, nurses will be given the option to take time in lieu or paid overtime.
Coby Gideon

Collision Repair School - 0 views

  • If you enjoy metalworking, painting and detailing, and the satisfaction of restoring vehicles, then you should definitely consider our Collision Refinishing Technology.
  • The refinishing courses will provide students with instruction in surface preparation and masking, spray gun operation, detailing, spot repair and blending techniques, corrosion protection, refinishing equipment, worker protection, hazardous materials, damage analysis and estimating, front section damage analysis, plastic welding, repair and refinishing.
samuel kokjohn

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  • YOUR PHONE WILL KNOW EVERYTHING
  • YOUR BRAIN WILL BE FIXED LIKE YOUR CAR
  • YOUR ELECTRONICS WILL BE POWERED BY YOU Researchers n the High-Low Tech Group are melding modern technology with traditional materials. For instance, Jie Qi is using piezoelectric circuits--which generate I voltage when you move them--to create a battery-free electric tambourine that lights up as it's played. When Qi asked for tips, a circuitry expert from the Respons
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  • Researchers n the High-Low Tech Group are melding modern technology with traditional materials. For instance, Jie Qi is using piezoelectric circuits--which generate I voltage when you move them--to create a battery-free electric tambourine that lights up as it's played. When Qi asked for tips, a circuitry expert from the Respons
  • Researchers n the High-Low Tech Group are melding modern technology with traditional materials. For instance, Jie Qi is using piezoelectric circuits--which generate I voltage when you move them--to create a battery-free electric tambourine that lights up as it's played. When Qi asked for tips, a circuitry expert from the Respons
Harley Young

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  • Apocalypse Cairo
  • The generals who deposed the Muslim Brotherhood are keener on power than they let on. Will Egypt return to military rule?
  • ONCE reluctant to appear in the media, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Egypt's top general (pictured), is now very much seeking the limelight, perhaps because he would like to run for president. A recent video of him addressing army officers appeared to be shot for public consumption and duly went viral. His spokesman has said that although the general was not yet standing for office there was nothing to prevent him from so doing if he retired from the army.
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  • Egypt's press has started comparing Mr Sisi to Gamal Abdul Nasser, the hero-general who eventually became president after deposing the country's last monarch in 1952.
  • Egypt's press has started comparing Mr Sisi to Gamal Abdul Nasser, the hero-general who eventually became president after deposing the country's last monarch in 1952
  • Protesters who helped the army to
  • end the rule of the Muslim Brotherhood last month have plastered the streets with posters of the army chief.
  • "It is very clear he is entertaining the idea of the presidency," says
  • Many see him as a font of the dignity and security which they feel Egypt has lacked since Nasser's time.
  • "It is very clear he is entertaining the idea of the presidency," says Robert Springborg, an expert in the Egyptian armed forces at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California.
  • In his politics, the general appears to mix nationalism and Islam.
  • He frequently inserts Koranic verses into conversation and is a more pious man than his predecessor, Hussein Tantawi, who was army chief from 1991 to 2012.
  • During part of this time Mr Sisi was a military attache in Saudi Arabia.
  • He also studied at the US Army War College in Pennsylvania for a year.
  • Sherifa Zuhur, who taught him, says that one of his daughters wore the niqab, the full face veil, and another wore the hijab, covering her hair, but not her face.
  • Mr Sisi's image is tainted by the uproar he caused in 2012 when he was the military spy chief and publicly defended members of the army who had subjected female protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square to virginity
  • tests "to protect the girls from rape as well as to protect the soldiers and officers from rape accusations".
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