miércoles, 1 de mayo de 2013

LEVELS OF CARE



To get a continuous care and detect problems early is important to detect problems early and to be acted on them fairly quickly so it is important specialized care at different levels.

Having these different levels of assistance the results that we can obtain are maxima.


The levels of care are:

- General Hospital Care

- Community and Primary Care

- Specialized care: geriatric unit

These levels are maintained by the coordination of: interdisciplinary work, proper use of appropriate levels of care and expertise.

PRIMARY:


At this level, it will be developed promotion and prevention activities, should be a force composed of different professionals to get a role so as to assist and maintain the patient in appropriate health conditions.
At this level health will be promoted, valued, different preventive activities will be carried, the patient will be conducted and if needed palliative care.



GENERAL HOSPITAL:
Level that does not treat the geriatric patient as such, but the patient admitted for an illness.
It highlights the home-hospital units that depend on hospital continuing of hospital care set in the hospital
Nursing undertake activities such as: education, treatments, sampling, hygiene, oxygen, drilling ...


SPECIALIZED CARE:

They are interdisciplinary units to specifically treat geriatric patients, highlighting different units:
- Acute geriatric unit: patients with acute illnesses
- Average stay unit: restore functionality after medical procedures
- Long unit or residence
- Day Hospital Geriatric: day hospitals.



SOCIAL SERVICES:

Functions of the role of social worker assessing the psychosocial factors that influence the elderly and perform projects of intervention at family, group and community.




                              Vanessa Palomares Garcia


BIBLIOGRAPHY:

- Health Promotion in the elder. The fragile elderly, detection, prevention and intervention in situations of weak and deteriorating health. Institute of Public Health. http://www.imsersomayores.csic.es/documentos/documentos/gomez-anciano-01.pdf

- Comprehensive geriatric assessment: differences in the profile of patients of different assistance levels.Valero, C.; Regalado, PJ, Gonzalez Montalvo, JI; Alarcon Alarcon, MT; Salgado, A. Posted in Rev Esp Geriatr Gerontol. 1998, 33:81-90. - Vol.33 No. 2

- Treaty of geriatrics. Spanish Society of Geriatrics and Gerontology. http://www.imsersomayores.csic.es/documentos/documentos/segg-tratado-01.pdf.

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