Quality Health Care
Quality can be defined differently by different people, based on various things, such as age, health status or even ethnicity. Students will define quality based on age groups and explore issues of quality health care., Generation X (20-40 y/o), Baby Boomers (40-60 y/o), and Seniors (65+) are the age groups to be included.
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Students are to design a chart with issues related to quality healthcare for each age group. Students will compare the issues for similarities, whether these issues are being addressed in their communities, and whether or not one group’s desire for quality overrides another group’s. There should be at least 5 issues in each age group. A discussion of 250 words written in APA format is submitted to the instructor detailing: similar issues, addressing these issues and if one group’s desires take precedence over another group’s and why the student feels this is so.
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Age group |
Patient safety | Timeliness of care | Effectiveness of care | Equity | Patient centeredness |
| Generation X(20-40 years old) | Safety of the patient is ensured equally despite the age. | Time given to this age group is less than for the other age groups. This is because the members are considered to be stronger thus the belief that they do require that much attention. | The effectiveness of care is slightly higher because they immune boost the effectiveness of the care. Sometimes, immune system for this age group can fight the infection by its own. | This generation generally has being receiving low quality of care due the belief that their immune system is still strong. |
The emotional and physical support given to this age group is less compared to the other age groups. |
| Baby boomers (40-60 years old) | Safety of the patient is ensured equally despite the age. | The attention is more than that of generation X but not as much as that given to the seniors. | This age group is characterized with many complication thus the effectiveness of care is low than that of generation x. | The quality of care is better than that of generation X | The emotional and physical support given is lower than that of the seniors but higher that that of the generation X. |
| Seniors(65 years old and above) | Safety of the patient is ensured equally despite the age. | The seniors are biologically believed to be weak. Their immune system is not strong as that of generation X thus more time is paid to them. | This age group is very sensitive whereby the immune system of people in this age group is very low thus the effectiveness of care is different. | Being very sensitive just like babies, the quality of care given is much better than that of the other age groups. | More support is given to this age group due to their sensitive. |
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