Respite Care

Examples of Respite Care in the following topics:

• The "Sandwich Generation" and Elder Care

  • 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.

• How Culture and Society Impact the Elderly

  • 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.

• Day Care

  • 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.

• The Year of Blood

  • 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.

• Child Care

  • 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

• Defining Health, Health Care, and Medical Care

  • 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.).

• Externalities in the Health Care Market

  • 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.

• Gender Inequality in Health Care

  • 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

• Health Care Policy

  • 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.

• The War in the West

  • 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.