Article 1
The article by Skinner (2011) discusses about the ability of the Catholic Health Care Services (CHCS) to offer long term care to seniors. The organization does this inexpensively through techniques such as renovating resident cares and converting former schools into affordable residential places for seniors. Additionally, the article emphasizes the importance of spiritual care to residents by employing a religiously diverse staff. Based on the article, long term care today focuses mainly on dementia care since while seniors can live healthy for longer, living at home will be challenging due to different forms of dementia including Alzheimer’s disease. I chose the article because of it discussion about the spiritual aspect of long term care that a majority of long term continuum care programs ignore.
The article informed my learning regarding the continuum of long term care by demonstrating the importance of respecting residents including respecting their spiritual needs. A successful continuum focuses on all levels of care based on the needs of the residents. The spiritual part is especially vital for seniors because it is the one thing that they adhere to even after their bodies or minds deteriorate as the article demonstrates. While all people age, the type of care, the time the care is offered, and the setting in which care is offered should be harmonized to ensure high-quality care that helps seniors continue to live fulfilling and enriching lives.
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Health care administration professionals must now face the challenge of integrated health care and be ready for a change from nursing home-based care to community-based care. While shifting to cost-effective community based and other in-home based services from nursing based care will increase the availability and access to inexpensive care, integration of care across different facilities will present issues (Mcsweeney-Feld, Molinari & Oetjen, 2017). The diversification of care poses the challenges of care fragmentation, service duplications, and efforts to force residents into narrow service categories (Mcsweeney-Feld et al., 2017). It would, therefore, be vital to focus on improved service integration and coordination for residents receiving services from different settings.
Article 2
The article by Gordon (2005) examines the long-term care financial planning, which is regarded as a key safety measure. Based on the article, advances in medical technology make it possible for people to live longer, which creates the need for additional long term services to care for debilitating illnesses such as congestive heart failure, arthritis, chronic obstructive pulmonary illness, and dementia. Based on this information, the article argues that financial planners can discuss the various long term care insurance plans early with the aging people while ensuring that they adopt the right plans. Financial planners risk facing litigation if they fail to discuss these matters with their clients. I chose this article because of its exploration about the issue of financial planning in the long term care continuum, which is particularly a crucial element given the increasing cost of programs providing long term care to seniors.
The article informed my learning regarding the continuum of long term care by its emphasis on the importance of working with financial planners to discuss long term care insurance to learn about the details of the various products and to select the best product. Long term care insurance is invaluable because it will pay for the nurses or aides who would be helping the seniors at home or nursing home and would cover the cost of assisted care program, nursing home care or senior daycare program since traditional programs such as Medicare do not cover these services.
The article addresses the challenge of sufficiently planning for long term care, which affects both the seniors and their families. While people will one day rely on long term care services, most of them fail to acknowledge that failure to acquire a long term care insurance may cost their savings given the high costs of these services (Eling & Ghavibazoo, 2018). The issue is that most people assume that traditional health insurance programs such as the Affordable Care Act and others cover long term care, which is not the case. Financial planners must also discuss the long term care plan as part of the retirement plan even if their clients fail to initiate the discussion to avoid professional liability.
References
Eling, M., & Ghavibazoo, O. (2018). Research on long-term care insurance: status quo and directions for future research. The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice , 44 (2), 303–356. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41288-018-00114-6
Harley Gordon, J. D. (2005). Financial Planners Risk Lawsuits for Failing to Recommend Realistic Plans for Long-Term Care. Journal of Financial Planning .
Mcsweeney-Feld, M. H., Molinari, C., & Oetjen, R. M. (2017). Dimensions of long-term care management:an introduction . Health Administration Press (Hap); Arlington, Virginia.
Skinner, S. (2011, August). Catholic Health Care Services. Inside Health .
