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15 Indigenous job seekers are expected to fill local skill shortages in the aged and community care industry after they complete a new “job ready” scheme. Student, Marshall Williams hopes his new skill will make it easier for him to find work, breaking the welfare cycle. Leah Dixon from Sarina Russo Job Access says the skill shortages gives students a good chance of finding employment.
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Lisa Cantrell, RN, chief clinical officer for the National Association of Health Care Assistants, speaks at a press conference at Shadyside Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Pittsburgh about how proposed Medicare cuts in the national health care reform package would diminish the quality of care provided to nursing home residents in Pennsylvania and across the country, and cause the loss of critical caregiver jobs.
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This is a video from a stationary vantage point showing the CareBot(tm) autonomously following a grandmother from her bedroom to the kitchen. It was guided purely by AI in the on board computers. The robot was in sleep mode before being activated by the grandmother’s movement out of the room. It then tracked the grandmother down the hallway and found her in the kitchen. This is the second run using the same scenario after various incremental improvements and additional sensors. Notice also that the robot is traveling through various lighting conditions that trip up many other robots. Conditions include a naturally lit bedroom, a darkened hallway, and an artificially lit kitchen.
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Located in the heart of tree-lined neighborhoods of Northeast Minneapolis, Catholic Eldercare’s community of senior residences offers older adults inviting opportunities to live life to the fullest. This video was featured at the 2011 Catholic Eldercare Luncheon.
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For those who have elderly parents or grandparents, the prospect of elderly health care often comes into mind. As your loved ones age, there comes a point when they are no longer capable of looking after themselves. Of course most family members will offer to pitch in and help whenever possible, however round the clock care is impossible, especially when you have to work and worry about your own kids as well. Usually, the task will fall on one family member who has to sacrifice a lot, and will eventually become overly stressed.
Placing your loved one in a nursing home seems like the only answer, unfortunately, most that are placed in such places are forgotten. The nursing home may be far away from your own area, and going there will end up being an inconvenience. Several elderly people loathe the prospect of spending their time in a nursing home, where they are treated as invalids. Many seniors are disheartened at the idea of leaving their homes, that they have built many memories in over the years, and can even become depressed, which further worsens their health conditions.
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Before you think of nursing homes, it is important to realise that not all elderly people need to go to a nursing home. Nursing homes are great for people who have severe dementia and who might harm themselves if left unattended. A large portion of the aging population do not need to go to such extreme measures they might just need some extra help with certain tasks that they can no longer do alone and someone to check up on them and see that they are alright.
Elderly home care is a great alternative to nursing homes. This way, your loved ones get to stay in familiar surroundings and can still go about their normal routines. With elderly home care, nurses and other professionals visit their houses for a certain number of hours per day or week depending on how much care is needed. This way, the elderly can still have a sense of freedom and independence that comes with staying in their own home. This is also a great source of self esteem for the elderly, and they will not become depressed when they realise they cannot do everything that they used to.
Elderly home care is the best option for the well being of elderly people. Nursing homes should only be used as a last resort.
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Quite rightly, a great deal of our senior citizens are going to be worried about what the effects of the new health care reform bill are. It’s true that seniors often use the health care system a lot more often than most young people do, and so they probably have a bigger interest than most. The frightening thing is, for any senior citizen with a fixed income, there is going to be little room for maneuver in their budgets should the cost of health care rise.
So is the new health care reform bill brought about by Barack Obama going to have any direct affects on senior citizens? The answer is “yes”.
However, there are also a lot of complications to this answer, and whether the new affects are good or bad for you will depend much on your individual circumstances.
Let’s take a look at some of the specifics concerning older citizens:
Cuts in Medicare
One of the biggest changes that we’ll see is that under the new bill, the federal governments regular payments to the Medicare Advantage program are set to be cut over the next 10 years by 2 billion. This has been justified by the government who say that people under these plans typically receive more from the government than those who are under regular Medicare receive.
It’s true that there are often additional benefits on offer to seniors in a Medicare Advantage program, which aren’t available to seniors under a traditional Medicare program. It’s likely that there extra benefits will be cut from Medicare Advantage plans once these new cuts are felt.
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This reduction is to be phased in during the next 3 years in most states, beginning in 2011, though there are a few states where this will take more time.
The new healthcare reform bill doesn’t introduce any cuts to the traditional Medicare program however. Despite this pledge though, Medicare contributions towards home healthcare are set to be cut by billion from 2011 until 2019, and there will also be reductions in payments to hospitals over the same period, totaling billion.
Enhancements to Medicare
Medicare’s existing prescription medicine’s benefit is set to be bolstered by the new bill however, as it addresses its “donut hole” problem.
As it stands now, a senior citizen who spends up to 00 on medicines is covered. However, once passed that mark, coverage stops. If that same person manages to spend up to ,154 on medicine, coverage will begin again, hence the nickname “donut hole”.
Starting now in 2010, anyone who falls in this donut hole will be eligible for 0 aid from the government. Afterwards, the bill states that the US government will make annual increases to the amount of medicinal costs it will pay for anyone who falls in this “donut hole”. By the year 2020, the government will pay for 75% of medicine costs for senior citizens who fall into this ,700 to ,154 gap. As well as this, annual Wellness visits by senior citizens are set to be provided for by Medicare.
Medicare Payments Board
The new healthcare reform bill will also see the establishment of an Independent Payment Advisory Board for Medicare, one that is made up of 15 members. It’s principal task is to submit ideas and proposals for legislation in order to cut the per capita spending of Medicare, if this spending starts growing too fast and becomes unsustainable.
The “Too fast” designation will be defined as anything that exceeds the Consumer Price Index’s growth rate during a 5 years period ending in 2013.
If this happens, then the board will meet in 2014 to discuss and submit proposals to be considered by the House of Congress and the US president.
Many critics have claimed that this board will be the tool for future Medicare reductions. Some of the legislative wording in the new bill states that the Independent Payments Advisory Board is prohibited from proposing an idea that would raise taxes, ration care or alter benefits.
