This article looks at the impacts on adult safeguarding partnerships and practice over the 18 months following the implementation of the Care Act (2014) from the perspectives of an independent Chair of two Safeguarding Adults Board and a senior manager in adult social care in a local authority. ...
Care Act 2014disabilityindependent livingPersonal budgets have been heavily promoted in government policy in England as a means of increasing the personalisation of public services, particularly in the field of adult social care. The Care Act 2014 for the first time creates a statutory requirement ...
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the use of Veklury (remdesivir) for use in adult and adolescent patients 12 years of age and older for the treatment of COVID-19 in instances that require hospitalization. Blog October 15, 2020 Jazz Pharmaceuticals Creates New Education Cente...
Almost all clinical stakeholders interviewed said they would like to improve transition, and some had tried but encountered barriers, such as limited resources and complexity of scheduling joint consultations between paediatric and adult centres. However, many voting experts (63%) felt that having at ...
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, is a recent example of health care reform. This law is an attempt to provide a mandated health insurance system to eliminate some of the bad practices of the insurance companies. Obamacare attempts to provide more ...
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act includes several provisions that promise to stem the rapidly rising tide of uninsured young adults, one of the largest uninsured segments of the population. These include the ability to enroll in a parent's health plan up to age 26, beginning in ...
When it comes to buying insurance for your kids, since January 1, 2014, the Affordable Care Act has required any insurer that offers a metallic level plan to an individual adult must also make that plan available to an individual child -- provided the child has not reached his or her ...
Software included a “Therapist Interface” (which an art therapist uses to customize the system for their client) and a “Client Interface” (which an older adult client uses to create his/her artwork). A health sciences center A mixed-methods study N = 6 older adults (mean age 89.2) ...
Introduction Beginning in September 2010, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) required private health insurers to allow young adults to remain on a parent’s plan until their 26th birthday. Nearly one-third of US births are to women in the age range affected by the policy (age 19-25 years). Al...
The connectors act as process flow to bridge the gap between user and system provider at community-level implementation. Figure 2 depicts the importance of every level of involvement through an empowerment program that includes individual, family and community participation. Issues on the structural ...