What role has the Older Americans Act played in initiating and funding health promotion programs for older adults?

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PART 1
Medicare and Medicaid are available to older adults under certain conditions. Discuss the differences between these two major federal health insurance programs in relation to the following:
eligibility
coverage
dual coverage
What role has the Older Americans Act played in initiating and funding health promotion programs for older adults?
PART 2
1) Describe three programs that might be available to older adults that would allow them to keep living in their own home safely and economically.
2) Why has the enactment of Medicare and Medicaid played such a big role in the development of the long-term care facilities (LTCF)/nursing homes? Why do LTCF/nursing homes play an important role in the continuum of care?
Use APA formatting and in-text citation
Provide a reference page.

Select a health-related topic applicable to your practice setting and formulate a clinical question using the PICO (T) format.

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1. Select a health-related topic applicable to your practice setting and formulate a clinical question using the PICO (T) format.
2. Identify key terms that you will use to search the literature, based on the PICO (T) elements.
3. Search for information on your formulated clinical question in each of these three databases: PubMed, CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature), and The Joanna Briggs Institute database.
4. Present the results of the searches in the tables provided in the Evidence-Based Practice Searchable Clinical Questions Form found in Course Resources. Although the worksheet is provided, you may need to add additional rows to the grid in order to accommodate your search results. Be sure to include all of your steps in the Notes column.
5. Submit the form to the Dropbox by the due date.
PREPARING THE PAPER
1. In Course Resources, you will find the Week 5 Evidence-Based Practice Searchable Clinical Questions Form. This is the form to be used to submit the assignment. No other paper is required for this assignment. Although this form is provided for this assignment, you may need to add additional rows to the grid to accommodate your search results.
2. Below, you will find an example of how to complete the form as you are doing each search.
3. The Notes section is to be completed in detail as each step of the search is undertaken. Be sure to include all of the steps you used.
4. An optimal range of 10–20 scholarly articles is to be achieved for each search. This may require performing a combination of Boolean terms in order to achieve the optimal range. If this is not possible, a detailed explanation is to be included in the Notes section. Points will be deducted if you do not perform enough of a search to arrive at the optimal range.

Identify and explain the accounting practices California Sutter Health used in defining and solving its collection problems.

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Write an eight- to ten-page case analysis of the following article (which can be found in the Ashford Online ProQuest database):
• Souza, M. & McCarty, B. (2007). From bottom to top: How one provider retooled its collections [Electronic version]. Healthcare Financial Management, 61(9), 67-73.
Include the following:
• Complete a summary of the case study that identifies the key problems and issues, provides background information, relevant facts, the solution employed, and the results achieved.
• Identify and explain the accounting practices California Sutter Health used in defining and solving its collection problems.
• Develop an alternative solution based on your own research using three to five academic sources from journals, professional organizations, and websites.
• State your informed opinion of the approach used by California Sutter Health, and provide support using concepts from your research and personal experience.

How is rationing defined and what criteria are offered to ration care?

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The concept of rationing healthcare is dealt with on a daily basis. Healthcare rationing in the United States exists in various forms. Access to private health insurance is rationed based on price and ability to pay. Those not able to afford a health insurance policy are unable to acquire one, and sometimes, insurance companies prescreen applicants for pre-existing medical conditions and either decline to cover the applicant or apply additional price and medical coverage conditions. Access to state Medicaid programs is restricted by income and asset limits through a means test and to other federal and state eligibility regulations. Health maintenance organizations (HMOs) that commonly cover the bulk of the population restrict access to treatment via financial and clinical access limits.
Using the South University Online Library, find a current article (no more than two years old) on rationing issues in healthcare. The article should also be peer-reviewed.
Note: Peer-reviewed refers to articles reviewed and approved by authors’ professional peers who are experts on the topic being discussed.
After reading your article, summarize its contents and the main theme discussed. Then, answer the following questions:
• How is rationing defined and what criteria are offered to ration care?
• Discuss and apply at least one of the major ethical theories to the issue and the ethical decision-making process to the issue.
• What do you feel the impact of the issue in the article will be on the healthcare industry? What can be done to ensure rationing is done fairly?
• Discuss the major codes of ethics of the stakeholders involved in the issue and how these codes will affect the decision-making process and the final decision.
• Examine and discuss the impact that the issue and the final decision will have on the stakeholders involved.
• Discuss any potential policy implications for the issue and the final decision.