Baycrest Case Study

Barry Corbet states his experience in a nursing home in his essay “Embedded.” A nursing home is a private institution for elderly or sick people who are unable to care for themselves. Corbet’s essay says “Nursing homes are environments of isolation and disempowerment” (Corbet 165). “Nursing homes are not just for old people, they can be for people with disabilities also” (Corbet 164). Both age and disabilities can be a huge factor when considering a nursing home.

One thing every living organism has in common on this planet-- age. No one wants to age or face the fact that aging is inevitable. However, since it’s impossible to beat the never ending time clock that is life; everyone wants to be as comfortable as possible when age finally does catch up with them. When the majority of people think of comfortability in old age, they think of living in their own homes and being surrounded by their loved ones. Not many individuals want to be placed into a nursing home type facility because they can’t imagine themselves being comfortable that way. Nonetheless, even though being placed in a home does take away some of an elderly person’s independence, usually the independence lost is in activities that person can no longer do for themselves. Indeed, nursing homes do have their own set of scary stories behind them; life lost, independence lost, and privacy lost, yet many of those stories are outdated. Upon investigation, it would be easy for anyone to scare themselves out of a nursing facility due to the stories that are out there. Yet, upon even further research people would be able to see how far the United States has come in their development and evolution of nursing care facilities. The care of the elderly in the form of nursing homes has faced a tough evolution starting off with a harsh past, to what nursing homes are like now, and what people can expect for the future of these homes.

The new eldercare service model must be one of inclusion. We can no longer afford to marginalize any group of seniors. –Author

As America continues to be a society of working class people, others retiring and needing help, there will always be the need for elderly care. The trend of the aging drives the facility’s business.

We find that there are currently staffing shortages and the lack of long-term care facilities to compete with the growing number of senior citizen in our country (Williams, Nowak & Scoby, 2016). With these issues we find that each professional who assist within the field of geriatric care such as advocates and leadership, share a particular part in making a safe environment with adequate accommodations for seniors. There are differences in the leadership and advocacy perspective in senior care, but they both result in the common goal of a meaningful life for seniors daily.

On December 13, 2015, AP closed internal cash and merchandise theft case at the Bay Rockland for a value of $430. AP received a tip regarding theft of money in the locker room from associate’s personal belongings. Live surveillance showed the cleaner taking money from an associate’s jacket. The cleaner was interviewed and admitted to the theft of the associate’s money and also merchandise from the receiving

As many of us know today Baby Boomers and some of Generation X’s are coming to the age of retirement. Many of them have learned that just finding a place for them to retire or a great nursing home difficult. Many times, we find out too late that the place we chose is not the place we would like to be. All too often the people don't care how they treat people or their belongings because the people or item don't belong to them. We may want to stay in a place that we built and know better, or where we raised our love ones. To many times we have to fight our loved ones to go somewhere like nursing homes, but this way everyone wins.

Bayview Center CHSLD is an English based long-term care that facility in the West Island on Bord-du-Lac that provides rehabilitative, restorative, and skilled nursing care for residents. The Center was created in 1956 by the Samatas family, presently it takes 128 residents in four different units, each unit having 32 residents. Every resident has their own room, where personalization is encouraged, it contains of a call bell, an adapted bed, a dresser, and a night table.

We live in a day and age where most Canadians do not concern themselves with the odds of them being placed in a long-term care facility due to the presence of our health care system, however, a greater number of individuals should be more cogitative about the possibility of needing to be put in a home and that not being an immediate option. According to the Ontario Long Term Care Association (2015) over 40% of the long-term care homes in Ontario are small, with 96 or fewer beds. With the aging of the baby boomers within the next couple of years, 96 beds are simply not enough. The hardship of leaving the comfort of one’s home is stressful enough, without having to worry whether or not there will be open availability in the local nursing home. This report examines

Today, there are more senior citizens living in the United States than previous generations. As the baby boomers continue to grow older, millions of Americans are now over the age of 65. According to the research, there are over "75 million Baby Boomers who are on the verge of retirement" (Bernard, 2012). This is dramatically changing the nature of American society, and increasing the number of elderly which need care today, and will soon need care in the near future. Yet, what is often not discussed when looking at America's retirees and elderly is the environment in which many are retreating into. Ageism is a common cause of prejudice among the older generations (Quinn & Tomita 1997). A lot of abuse and neglect cases stem from an image of a burdensome elderly individual. Ageism is a major problem here in the United States, and it is partly responsible for setting the

In this article, Kane challenges many of the assumptions about long term care and about nursing homes. He begins with the premise that effective long-term care has to meet three different needs which may not be compatible with one another. These three needs are personal care, medical care, and housing. He also discusses a significant indictment of the current nursing home system and his belief that it simply is not appropriate for most elderly people because it strips far too many personal liberties. He believes that this can be traced to the history of the nursing home, which evolved as a type of quasi-hospital, but the trade-off of freedom for access to care that exists in a hospital is not the same underlying social contract that should exist fin a long term care environment. Instead when people seek out nursing homes they are seeking out care and housing, so that the environment is supposed to be one of the benefits, not something to be endured in order to get the benefit. Furthermore, because many nursing homes do both long term care and rehabilitation, he believes that they are overextended.

The book As We Are Now, written by May Sarton, targets those concerned with the care of elderly individuals in nursing homes. In the book, Sarton artistically highlights the plethora of ongoing issues social workers face in their work as they attempt to provide quality care to the elderly population. The book is written as the memoirs of a very thoughtful elderly woman, Caroline Spenser, as she spent part of her life in a nursing home; and brings to light the lack of quality of care that elderly individuals received when living in such a facility in the 1970’s.

I had the opportunity to volunteer at an In-Town Senior Living Assistance Center. An elderly man, who recently suffered a stroke, stated, “It must be difficult to believe that at one point I was an athlete.” In his particular case he had weakness in his lower extremities, which significantly impaired his balance leaving him temporarily dependent of a wheelchair. With genuine sincerity his therapist immediately replied, “Life happens.” There is no doubt that the transition into adult social care has not only signaled as one of the most comprehensive reforms of quality service delivery in terms of its introduction and successful implementation, but also presents major challenges for our ageing society and our

A decade ago, Charles Abrams could say sarcastically that, "Much of what has been provided, especially for older people, has been done with less imagination and less thoughtful preliminary research devoted to what is suitable than has automatically gone into planning and building housing for the monkeys and animals in the zoo" (quoted in Randall, 1950, p. 33). Few would go so far in their appreciations today. On all levels of government and within the ranks of nonprofit foundations and the building industry, a harsh reaction to the occurrence of an aging population is developing, especially in the area of housing.

As aging progresses, a more specialized and tailored approach is needed. This is where the services of live-in independent and assisted living facilities have taken a proactive approach to not just helping residents remain active, but also engrossed in the culture they lived long before. This benefits the patient significantly by boosting moral, and subsequently, improving all aspects of a patient’s life. Many facilities are even employing full-time activity directors to facilitate and schedule a wide