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Program 2010 |
Date:
April 21, 2010
Time:
4:00 p.m.
Place: St. Luke’s
United Methodist Church, 86th & Meridian,
Indianapolis, IN, Room 107/109
Speaker:
Diane Orris, BS, MS, Director of Marketing/Community Liaison
Mobile Doctors
Topic:
Meeting the Medical and Lifestyle Needs of Seniors
(How Baby Boomers Will Challenge the Health Care System)
Diane Orris
“has a passion for seniors” and has been serving this age group for 25
years. She is currently the Director of Marketing for Mobile Doctors,
medical doctors who make house calls. Diane began her professional
relationship with the aging population as a designer of senior living
communities and after years in the architectural/design field, she is
now helping local seniors meet their medical and lifestyle needs through
community based and in-home services. Compassion, enthusiasm, and
determination to provide quality services give Diane the incentive to
continue her service in this specialized arena.
The
presentation will discuss the statistical calculations of numbers of
seniors initiating
Medicare coverage over the next eighteen years (including the range of
baby boomers from 1946 to 1964). How that exponentially growing
population will impact care/staffing requirements in ER, acute care and
skilled nursing. What initiatives states are taking to deal with the
large influx in patient load. Community based and in-home services
versus increased number of long term care beds and institutional
environments and staffing. Outline/listing of examples of community
based and in-home resources available to supplement institutionally
based services. The "team" approach to care and establishing relational
communication and coordination to provide quality care and meet the
broad spectrum needs of 100,000,000 seniors (current and those turning
65 over the next 18 years). Encouragement of personal responsibility
(education/information, healthy lifestyle choices, compliance), patient
directed care (living will, DNR, ask questions), implementation of
prevention and wellness measures (medical check-ups, screenings,
medication reconciliation), independence (techniques for promoting
independence and self sufficiency such as universal design standards to
allow residents to age in place; in-home services such as physician
house call visits, home health care (PT, OT, ST, Social worker, behavior
therapy); DME (beds w/ preventative or therapeutic surfaces, mobility
devices, medical supplies); family care givers (benefits and what needs
to be done to provide incentives such as tax credits, education,
training); Palliative and Hospice care. How all of this will promote
more cost effective utilization of Medicare benefits and reduce excesses
in the expenditure of Medicare dollars for higher cost services such as
ER visits (including using the ER as replacement for primary care
physician), acute and long term care—put in the context of continuity
and continuum of care.
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