Whether you or your family members are receiving facility based or in home nursing care, the concerns are often the same when it comes to senior living. Here are some of the issues and potential solutions for better quality senior health care.
Payment
Newer methods of payment continue to affect the way senior care facilities track and monitor their performance. Among professionals, the general feeling is that there are very few proven methods or processes available to solve this. Different service providers use different payment methods, and there is little standardization across the industry. Payment should be value based, and the system should be flexible enough to allow for the changing demands of modern healthcare.
Family engagement
A lot of talk and discussions go into how to enhance in home nursing care. For every individual care provider, their levels of satisfaction can no longer be measured simply through their pool of patients. Today, it is about simplifying the lives of every one of their patients, and this involves a fair bit of family engagement. Today, there are care options that allow family members to be engaged and kept in the loop automatically.
Data tracking
For senior care providers, data is key to their marketing pitches, whether it is to families or to various bodies. Senior care facilities continue to track a lot of information, including medication management, clinical information and the occurrences of various incidents. The question remains how to leverage this data into effective insights into the quality of care. Majority of systems that manage care facilities have been built around the facilitation of payments, and not necessarily with insightful information collection in mind.
These are not the first things that come into mind when looking for the best senior care facility, but
with the evolution and modernization of senior healthcare provision, they are very important.
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