YOUR COMPUTER DO THE TALKING.CREAT A NETWORK OF RESIDENT INFORMATION THE ABILITY TO COLLECT AND MANAGE the flow of information for each resident in all of assisted living's service areas is critical for care management, cost analysis, and billing. All areas must be able to talk to one another. "In order to make sure that you charge properly for increased levels of care as a resident's condition becomes more intensive, you must have the ability to integrate clinical and financial packages," says Ken Raupach, president of III Corps List of military corps — List of military corps by number A number of countries have Third, or III, Corps:
LLC - Logical Link Control . Once entered into a single database, resident data can be passed from department to department, providing a seamless record of the following typical assisted living as·sist·ed living n. A living arrangement in which people with special needs, especially older people with disabilities, reside in a facility that provides help with everyday tasks such as bathing, dressing, and taking medication. services. * Three meals a day, served in a common dining room, accommodating special diets. * Housekeeping and linen services. * Transportation to medical care, stores, and community services. * Assistance with activities of daily living (ADLs), including eating, bathing, dressing and grooming, toileting, mobility, and walking. * Assistance with instrumental activities of daily living instrumental activities of daily living A series of life functions necessary for maintaining a person's immediate environment–eg, obtaining food, cooking, laundering, housecleaning, managing one's medications, phone use; IADL measures a (IADLs), including preparing meals, shopping, managing money, using a telephone, light and heavy housework. * Health maintenance wellness, exercise, and related programs. * Medication management. * Personal laundry services. * Social and recreational activities. * Short term respite care Respite Care Short-term or temporary care of a few hours or weeks of the sick or disabled to provide relief, or respite, to the regular caregiver, usually a family member. Notes: . * Therapy and pharmacy services. * Special needs programs for persons with Alzheimer's disease Alzheimer's disease (ăls`hī'mərz, ôls–), degenerative disease of nerve cells in the cerebral cortex that leads to atrophy of the brain and senile dementia. or other forms of dementia. (*.)SOURCE: ALFA, ASSISTED LIVING 1999, AN OVERVIEW |
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