Continuum of Healthcare Services
This course examines healthcare delivery models designed to promote healthy aging, emphasizing social determinants, health promotion and care delivery for elders and people with chronic health conditions. Post-acute and long-term care services are explained, including community and facility-based options. The course highlights service delivery management, financing, quality and innovation in the context of social justice.
Outcomes: 1) Demonstrate an understanding of aging; 2) Analyze the challenges and opportunities faced by the US healthcare system as a result of changing demographics; 3) Apply theories of aging and disability to the management of long-term care services; 4) Compare healthcare delivery models used in post-acute and long-term care services; 5) Describe financing models used in long-term care services; 6) Describe quality management concepts and trends associated with long-term care services; and 7) Articulate the social justice and ethical issues associated with healthy aging and the care of people living in diverse long-term care environments.
Outcomes: 1) Demonstrate an understanding of aging; 2) Analyze the challenges and opportunities faced by the US healthcare system as a result of changing demographics; 3) Apply theories of aging and disability to the management of long-term care services; 4) Compare healthcare delivery models used in post-acute and long-term care services; 5) Describe financing models used in long-term care services; 6) Describe quality management concepts and trends associated with long-term care services; and 7) Articulate the social justice and ethical issues associated with healthy aging and the care of people living in diverse long-term care environments.