Health Promotion Roles of Carers in Residential Aged Care Facilities in Australia



Contents

Introduction1

Literature Review4

State of Aged Care Residents6

Training7

Health Promotion Policies7

Conclusion8

References10

Appendix18

Health Promotion Roles of Carers in Residential Aged Care Facilities in Australia

Introduction

The care of the elderly is designed is Australia to make sure that all the Australians towards the cost of care of the elderly as much as they can. Kelley and Abraham [1], argues that health promotion as a routine care of people mostly over the age of 65 years enhance health. Aged care in Australia in the 21st century has taken major steps though there are problems with the availability community and residential care such as shortages of caregivers who are qualified with appropriate clinical aged care skills [2]. According to Jenkins and McKay [3], the country is focused to create a fair, just and caring society that values and supports older Australians requiring a wholesale shift of altitudes by developing an aged friendly society rather than purely an elderly care system. The need for cost effective care being offered by competent care providers and professionals who will meet the unique requirements of the elderly will be a requirement [4].

The assistance is the discipline that allows the practitioner trained to detect and respond to the health needs through the use of the strategy of problem solving. The process consists of assistance in the care of the individual that present a health need [7]. It is generally considered as a systematic approach to solving the problem that is used in nursing individualized. It is used by caregivers to identify and treat human responses to actual or potential problems.

It has the following features:

model to provide nursing care to patients and families to the community

is orderly and systematic;

is interdependent;

offers individualized nursing care;

is centered on the patient and their strengths;

its use is appropriate in all stages of life;

can be used in all environments.

The process of assistance:

It promotes cooperation between the various disciplines and professions ,

Organizes and supervises the cleaning of the patient,

Encourages the participation of the patient and promotes its autonomy,

Explain to others the functions of a nurse,

Promotes personalized assistance,

It is efficient (best cost-benefit ratio). This is a very significant element, as the cost benefit ratio is very crucial.

Phases of the care process

The phases of the care process are:

Assessment: assistance in the process of the assessment is the critical assessment of items of information about the capabilities of the individual, group or family, in order to identify potential improvements in the independence of the subject of care sensitive to the actions of nursing

Diagnosis: diagnose the capacity can be improved by the action of nursing, is the stage of clinical judgment that binds the nurse to assume responsibility for taking charge or not, in the light of the results pursued with his offer of assistance. Diagnoses are evaluations of nursing that solve the initial problem of interpretation consist of behaviors and performance found do not meet the expectations of the subject itself and the professional. By diagnosing the difference is interpreted and correlated with ...