2. 1. MENTAL HEALTH
2. CHILDHOOD IN 2016
3. ERWAITTIMES
4. ELDER ABUSE IN NURSING
HOMES
3. Mental Health
“Mental Health has been defined as a state of well-being
in which an individual realizes their abilities, can cope
with the normal stresses of life, can work positively and is
able to make a contribution to one’s community.” –CMHA
2013
•More than the absence of mental illness.
•One can have symptoms of a mental illness and still
experience periods of a mental well-being.
4. Mental Health
•Common conditions now-
a-days could include;
•Anxiety Disorders
•Eating Disorders
•Mood Disorders
•Schizophrenia
•Stigma &
Discrimination
•Etc…
“Anxiety disorders affect
about 12% of Canadians.
They include phobias,
panic disorder, post-
traumatic stress disorder
and obsessive-compulsive
disorder.” -CMHA
5. Mental Health
What can we do to solve some of these issues?
•Canada and Ontario offer several different resources
available to help patients receive care and support.
•We could make help more accessible for our everyone.
•Spend more budget funds to create therapeutic day
programs and therapies.
7. Childhood in 2016
“Time for play in most kindergartens has dwindled to the
vanishing point, replaced by lengthly lessons and
standardized testing…” –Alliance for Childhood
Organization
•In Kindergarten classrooms:
• 2-3 hours per day in test preparation, testing or being
instructed.
• 30 minutes or less per day learning to play and interact with
other children and exploring creativity.
8. Childhood in 2016
•Electronics use in kids
development can impact
emotional, cognitive, and
sensory brain growth.
•Children seem to be more
agitated and exhausted.
•More kids start to
struggle socially.
•Disrupts sleep patterns.
•Overloads sensory
systems and breaks
attention spans and
focus.
9. Childhood in 2016
What can we do to solve some of these issues?
•Limit the amount of time we allow our kids to utilize
electronics.
•Plan more outdoor play activities.
•Organize outdoor playdates with kids of similar ages.
•Enroll kids in summer day camps.
10. Childhood in 2016
Symbolic InteractionalismTheory
•Kids have trouble communicating face-to-face.
•Social Interaction is through a screen and keyboard, not
verbal and physical.
•Kids struggle to occupy themselves without technology
and electronics.
11. ERWaitTimes
Emergency Room wait times means “the total time that someone
who visits an Emergency Room looking for immediate,
unscheduled care spends in the ER.Total time spent in the ER is
the maximum amount of time nine out of ten patients spend in
the ER, receiving care or waiting for admission to a hospital bed.
The measurement of wait time, starts when a patient registers or
is triaged ( triage is the process for deciding which ER patients
need or are likely to benefit from immediate treatment). It ends
when the patient is discharged from the ER or is admitted to a
hospital bed.” (Ontario WaitTimes, 2008)
12. ERWaitTimes
• “Canadians make almost 16 million visits to emergency room
departments each year.” (Hildebrandt, 2014)
• A lot of Canadian’s can now find out what times they will be
waiting at their hospital to see an emergency room physician for
the initial assessment.This information was released by
Canadian Institute for Health, it covers 161 hospitals, which is
60% of the hospitals in Canada.
• Ontario and Alberta are the only two provinces that have all of
their hospitals included in the report.
• At our local hospital,The RoyalVictorian Hospital, the wait times
can range from an average of 3.5 hours to almost 5 hours.
13. ERWaitTimes
•“In the report more than 40% of the hospitals fell below
the suggested three hour wait time to get assessed by
an emergency room physician.” (Hildebrandt, 2014)
•The report only looks at 90% of patients going into the
ER, the remaining 10% of the patients waited longer
times in the ER.
•Patients arriving at the ER are of course cared for by
greatest risk to non-life threating, this impacts wait
times as well.
14. ERWaitTimes
What can we do to solve some of these issues?
•By providing more staff physicians on at all times in the
Emergency Room, to ensure patients are getting to see
the physicians quicker.
•Opening more after hour walk in clinics.
15. ERWaitTimes
Structural-Functionalism Theory
ER wait times can relate to structural-functionalism
theory by the society as being the hospital that is a
system of interconnected parts that work together in
harmony to maintain a state of balance and social
equilibrium for the whole; each part of the hospital
effects the other part so one of the reason for slow wait
times could be due to another part of the hospital.
16. Elder Abuse in Nursing Homes
Elder abuse is “the physical or psychological abuse,
financial abuse (such as improper use of the elder’s
financial resources), medical abuse or neglect of the
elderly. Elder neglect includes failure to provide basic
health and hygiene needs, such as clean clothes, doctor
visits, medication, and adequate nutrition. Neglect also
involves unreasonable confinement, isolation of the
elderly family members, lack of supervision and
abandonment.”(Holmes, Mooney, Knox, Schacht, 2012)
18. Elder Abuse in Nursing Homes
What can we do to solve some of these issues?
•Put more attention on the problem, publicize.
•Make sure all staff are trained properly in care taking.
•Keep a close eye on all staff and how they are treating
patients.
•Family members talk with elders about abuse and how
they are being treated.
19. Elder Abuse in Nursing Homes
Symbolic InteractionsTheory
Elder abuse can relate to the symbolic interactionist
theory.With a generation that constantly stereotypes
everything, the stereotypes towards elders are negative,
implying that in a world where individualism and self-
reliance play major parts in today’s society, there is little
use for the older population.
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