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Long term care (LTC) is a variety of services which help meet both the medical and non-medical need of people with a chronic illness or disability who cannot care for themselves for long periods of time.
It is common for long-term care to provide custodial and non-skilled care, such as assisting with normal daily tasks like dressing, bathing, and using the bathroom. Increasingly, long term care involves providing a level of medical care that requires the expertise of skilled practitioners to address the often multiple chronic conditions associated with older populations.
Long-term care may be needed by people of any age, even though it is a common need for senior citizens.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) estimates that about nine million men and women over the age of 65 in the US will need long-term care in 2009. By 2020, 12 million older Americans will need long-term care.
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For those requiring Long Term Care, Regent Care Center provides two levels of care that can be tailored to meet the specific needs of most residents. Small units provide close personal attention in a home-like environment. Our extended stay residents benefit from restorative and recreational programs designed to improve and maintain their functional abilities and quality of life.
Long term skilled nursing units provide the full array of nursing services and assistance with activities of daily living in a caring, safe and supportive environment.
The interdisciplinary team establishes an individualized plan of care that includes:
- Social and cognitive needs
- Personal care needs including whirlpool and hair salon services
- Nutrition needs
- Wound risk assessment
- Safety risk assessment
- Medication, side effects monitoring
- Medical treatment
- Consultant pharmacy review
- Restorative care
- Recreation to maintain function and provide socialization
Designed to provide just enough assistance to enable the resident to remain largely independent in a community environment.
- Spacious dining room overlooking the garden
- Cozy library/game room
- Separate additional recreational space
- Medication supervision
- Personal care assistance and 24 hour supervision
- Medical services in the building
- Laundry service
- Washer/dryer on the unit for resident use
- Pantry on the unit
- Recreational activities designed for the residential unit
- Access to all facility activities and entertainment
- Access to physical, occupational, speech and respiratory
therapy in the facility
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