Assignment Details
John Doe took a position as the administrator of a memory care facility in Ohio. The facility has a large number of residents with dementia. The residents’ council asked for better services that support aging in place. Many of the new residents were having problems because they just moved into the facility. There have been incidents where residents try to run away because they want to go back home. Some of them started developing conditions that were not present initially when they came in. Most of them became withdrawn and refused to eat their meals. The other day, three slips and fall cases resulted in residents being hurt. This has resulted in staff members getting nervous and uneasy about the situation.
John held a meeting and asked for suggestions to address the situation as a team. It was evident that changes must be made to help the residents feel at home.
Consider the following questions:
Explain the Older Americans Act of 1965.
How would you recommend services for older adults?
How would you improve the quality of life of the elderly population in a community?
What are some of the significant social and emotional problems within the elderly population in residential facilities?
What resources or services are available to the elderly population to enhance their quality of life?
How does loneliness influence their quality of life?
Identify some safety issues in a typical residential facility. How do you prevent them?
What is the importance of training care staff, and how does that help improve seniors’ safety in a facility?
Deliverable Requirements
Your PowerPoint presentation should include at least 15 slides.
Submitting your assignment in APA format means, at a minimum, you will need the following:
Title slide: Remember the running head. The title should be in all capitals.
Length: There should be at least 15 slides.
Body slides: This begins on the slide following the title slide and must be double-spaced (be careful not to triple- or quadruple-space between paragraphs). The typeface should be 12-point Times New Roman or 12-point Courier in regular black type. Do not use color, bold type, or italics, except as required for APA-level headings and references. The deliverable length of the body of your paper for this assignment is 15 slides. In-body academic citations to support your decisions and analysis are required. A variety of academic sources is encouraged.
Reference slide: References that align with your in-body academic sources are listed on the final slide of your presentation. The references must be in APA format and use appropriate spacing, hanging indents, italics, and uppercase and lowercase for the type of resource used. Remember that the Reference slide is not a bibliography but a further listing of the abbreviated in-body citations used in the paper. Every referenced item must have a corresponding in-body citation.