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The expansion of the assisted living and nursing home industry has sparked an increased need for educated individuals to work as managers. Educational training choices to become a manager provide two main areas of study and students can choose from multiple colleges and universities to enroll in. The training options available through geriatric care management schools can help students become successful.

The main focus of education is to teach students to work with the elderly by counseling and assisting them. Training teaches students to coordinate services based on government and insurance regulations for geriatric care management. Managers work directly with patients to help them make major decisions based on their knowledge of the geriatric care industry. In order to meet the demands of a career student’s have to posses a bachelor’s degree. This makes up the first educational option for students. Read the rest of this entry »

Geriatrics and Gerontology are often used to mean the same thing.  Geriatrics is the branch of medicine that deals with the illness and care of the aged, while Gerontology is the study of factors affecting the normal aging process and the effects of aging on persons of all ages.

Geriatric nursing focuses on the care of the sick elderly.  Gerontologic nursing includes not only the care of the sick elderly, but also health maintenance, illness prevention, and the promotion of quality of life to assist the person to grow to an ideal state of health and well being.

Simply stated, our role as health care providers is to assist our elderly patients to get better, to maintain at their current status – accepting declines – or to ease their dying.

Pharmacotherapy for the elderly can cure or palliate disease as well as enhance health-related quality of life (HRQOL). HRQOL considerations for the elderly include focusing on improvement in physical functioning, psychological functioning, social functioning, and overall health. Despite the benefits of pharmacotherapy, HRQOL can be compromised by drug-related problems. The avoidance of drug related adverse consequences in the elderly requires health care practitioners to become knowledgeable about a number of age-specific issues. Read the rest of this entry »