Please provide 3-4 paragraphs on the questions below. Provide proper APA in-text citations and References

1.One way to improve the safety of older adult drivers is to improve roadway characteristics. Provide examples of how a better-designed roadway system that takes the needs of older adults into consideration. This is your opportunity to be creative and to think of ways to improve transportation and driving conditions.

2. Let us assume you are responsible for providing housing options for elders. A) What would you do to expand housing options? B) How would you remove barriers? C) What would you do to keep elders in their present homes? D) What would you do for low-income marginalized elders?

3. Discuss the challenges facing a care management program. Are those challenges new?

4. What are the services most valuable by caregivers? How would you improve funding for those services? How can the services be improved while at the same time being budget neutral?

5. Numerous studies have linked the concept of social support and interaction to better health. The love and support of other people can decrease a person’s stress level and may help to increase a person’s sense of personal control.  List 3 interventions that health professionals can attempt to prevent elders from social withdrawal and decline both socially and physically.

6. Life expectancy for both men and women in the United States continues to increase.

List some of the factors that influence life expectancy.  Describe how those influences impact life expectancy for men and women. Compare life expectancy and contributing factors for those who are Caucasion, for African Americans and Hispanics, for American Indians and Asian Pacific Islanders.

7. Find a newspaper or scholarly article where a health care organization or a provider was found guilty of malpractice, criminal negligence, false credentials, failure to treat or patient abandonment. Provide specific details of the case. Discuss with your colleagues 1. which critical health care error does the article address? 2. Explain the setting and details using your own words.  3. Drawing from your readings and experience to date, what do you assess are factors leading up to the error? Touch on duties and standard of care.

Background sites to read for question  7

•  http://www.ncsl.org/issues-research/human-services/child-abuse-and-neglect-reporting-statutes.aspx  [ table on state requirements]

•  http://www.ncea.aoa.gov/  [The National Center for Elder Abuse]

http://ctel.org/expertise/credentialing-and-privileging/  and http://publichealth.lacounty.gov/qi/docs/QIBriefCredentialingandPrivileging2-10.pdf  [credentialing and privileging]

8.  Medical Records committee.

·  Research and discuss the use of the management tool in a specific health organization on Medical Records Committee.

·   Discuss the purpose of the management tool, structure or process as it relates to federal or state law.

·   Provide associated detail about how it operates and the role of management. Include the link to the article after providing a full paragraph description.

·  Provide citation of authority to support your respnses.

9. Bow-Tie Analysis is one of many efffective tools for communicating risk assessment.

·  Discuss the bow-tie method and then provide another specific example of an effective tool that hospitals use for risk assessment.

·  Which one would you implement in your area and why? Must provide specific examples of each  being used and results.

·  Discuss in what areas you feel a risk management analysis could be effective and why?

·  Provide citation of authority to support your responses.

·  Backgound readings for question 9:

•  http://www.r4risk.com.au/Bow-tie-Analysis.php  [Bow-tie]

•  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19591531  [Bow-tie]

•  https://www.ecri.org/documents/secure/risk_quality_patient_safety.pdf [Risk Management, Quality Improvement, and Patient Safety]

http://elearning.scranton.edu/resource/health-human-services/purpose-of-risk-management-in-healthcare[The Purpose of Risk Management in Healthcare]

10.

·  Research and discuss  two health care challenges in the future for public or private health care organizations.

·  Must present two challenges

·  How will these challenges affect patience and the health care organization?

·   Be specific as to which type of health care organization you are dealing with [i.e. HMOs. PPOs, POS, urgent care centers, physician outpatient care surgical centers, etc.].

·  Provide citation of authority to support your discussion.

Backgound readings:

•  Lachman, V.D. (2012). Ethical Challenges in the Era of Health Care Reform. Ethics, Law and Policy/Med Surg Nursing, 21 (4), 24B8-250, 245. http://www.nursingworld.org/MainMenuCategories/EthicsStandards/Resources/Ethical-Challenges-in-the-Era-of-Health-Care-Reform.pdf

•  Ruger, J.P. (2011). Shared Health Governance.  The American Journal of Bioethics, 11 (7), 32-45. See

•  http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1752295  [you can download entire paper for free]

http://www.aaahc.org/accreditation/ [types of ambulatory health care centers]