Communication, Placement and Placement For The Older Adult

Communication, Placement and Placement For The Older Adult
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Health Care Issues.
Discharge planning is a frequent aspect in the health system, which aims at decreasing the length of stay and readmission rate of people in the hospital.
Hypertension
Her discharge plan should include well-balanced nutrition to control the blood pressure. For her dizziness to be contained by proper medication and snack food in her kitchen should be disposed since they are high in salt content. This move will reduce chances of high blood pressure.
Pernicious anemia
This is resulted due to lack of vitamin B12. Mrs. O Neill`s discharge plan should have lifelong monthly injections of B12, medical prescriptions of Lopressor 25mg bid for an average blood pressure of 160/100 and regular test of hearing aids from a home specialist. The information in the discharge planner are important because it offers appropriate information to case managers to know whether it is advisable for long term care facilities at Mrs. O Neill`s home (Gingerich1994).
Hearing Impairment
Mrs. O Neill has almost 80% hearing loss in both her ears and does not wear hearing aids. Her discharge plan should have a hearing medical expert that will provide for her state of the art hearing gadget considering her age.
Important issues.
Identifying her illness and subsequent symptoms is very important since it provides basic information for the case manager to prescribe appropriate medication for Mrs. O Neill. The information in the discharge planner is important and crucial because it helps the case manager to provide home health services, hospice services, medical equipment like wheel chair in case Mrs. O Neill is unable to assist herself in walking in the house. The manager can also provide hearing therapy since she suffers from hearing impairment.
Interdisciplinary team.
Nurse case manager
Home care nurse
Pharmacist
Hospital based social worker
Roles