Functions of Different

Geriatric Units
Presentation by:
Caja, Renzo Gabriel B.
BSN 3F
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Home Care and Hospice
Home care offers treatments
1 in a patient's home following
a hospitalization or surgery.
Hospice provides care for
2 patients with illnesses that may
limit life within 6 months.
Home care and hospice are
3 usually covered by insurance
check with your insurance for
coverage details.
Hospice is not only for end-of-
life care. Patients can
4 graduate from hospice and
return to curative treatment.
Hospice care can be provided
5 in various settings depending
on where the patient is most
comfortable.
The length of home and
6 hospice care varies based on
the patient's needs
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Whats Sets Us Apart?
avoid patients having to access hospital based care
AUTONOMY when they could be more efficiently managed in their
own community in a different way

encourage strong partnerships and improve

communication between everyone involved in a patient
UNITY pathway including primary care social care mental health
and voluntary sector partners

make sure when a patient does need acute or hospital

support. Getting them back into the community care
RECOVERY setting as soon as they are medically fit enough to
continue their recovery at home

enhance our end-of-life care by working with other

ENHANCE LIFE agencies to ensure effective plans are put in place that
meet the needs and wishes of patients and their families
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In Assisted Living…
● Relationships are important
● get most of the residents involved
● Provide care with utmost respect to
client's individuality and autonomy

Coordination of services by outside

health care providers; and
monitoring of resident activities to
help to ensure his or her health,
safety, and well-being.
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Specialized Geriatric Services is a
rehabilitation unit for older adults who have
recently had surgery or an illness
Examples of Special Care Units
Memory/cognit Neurological Orthopedic Cardiac/
Hospice care
ive care care rehabilitation pulmonary care

For people with Alzheimer’s for those who have Parkinson’s

disease or other types of for people who have for those with heart or lung for people approaching the
or Huntington’s disease or who end of life; provide a
dementia; offer a safe, undergone orthopedic surgery; issues; patients may receive
have suffered a stroke; care compassionate
secured environment, as well include specialized specialized services like
services may include physical, environment focused on
as specialized therapeutic rehabilitation equipment and exercise therapy, smoking physical and emotional
speech, occupational, and
programs for those who have treatment by experienced cessation programs, and comfort for the patient, as
swallowing therapies.
memory issues. rehabilitation professionals. education on lifestyle well as their loved ones.
modification.
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In the Geriatric Unit…
rehabilitation, maintenance,
assessment, medical and nursing
care, and social care are the main
functions.

They focus particularly on keeping you

functional and helping you maintain
your quality of life. Geriatric doctors
understand caregivers' roles and work
with family members, too.
“After a lifetime of working, raising
families, and contributing to the
success of this nation in countless
other ways, senior citizens deserve to
retire with dignity.”
— Charlie Gonzales