Aim of Data Collection and Analysis:
The data analysis in Healthcare plays very important role for planning and development of healthcare operations, evaluation of performance of policies and improvement of service and patient care. The aim of the data collection and analysis is to develop well managed and integrated Aged care services to the Maitland City.
(Map of Location of Maitland City)
Geographical Condition of Maitland City:
The needs analysis of Aged care Services of Maitland Local Health District of Lower Hunter Valley of New South Wales (NSW) is to be performed. Maitland is situated on Hunter River, approximately 166 Kilometres from north Sydney and 35 km from north-west of Newcastle by road. It
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This number was increased to 61,880 peoples in 2006 (Maitland City Council 2014). The largest and fastest growth was reported approximately 34% in the Lower Hunter Valley region of Maitland City by Australian Bureau of Statistics in last ten years from 2001 (Australian Bureau of Statistics 2012). According to ABS of 2012, the total population of local Maitland residents was 71,866. Among the overall population males and female numbers were 35,617 and 36,239 respectively (Australian Bureau of Statistics 2012).
Population Projection by NSW Government:
NSW Government was released the population projection news in 2010 stating that Maitland will be one of the fastest growing population local areas in the State’s Hunter Region. The new local area population projection report was produced by the Department of Planning, which covers the period from 2006 to 2036.71% growth of a population of 110,300 residents will be reported in a Maitland City between these periods (NSW Government 2010). The following Graph 1 shows the assumed growth of population in the Maitland city in next the 20 years (NSW Government Health 2009).
Graph 1: Growth of Population in the Maitland City from 2006 to
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Falls in older people can lead to hospitalisation, loss of morbidity and even death. In Maitland, around 150 people aged over 65 years are hospitalised every year.
5. Diversity in Cultural and Linguistically:
Cultural diversity will expect to be increased in Maitland’s City (Maitland Urban Settlement Strategy 2009). Health and Community services for older people need to continually review system and practices.
6. Dementia:
Dementia affects the older people results into brain activity and resulted into a decreased ability to conduct everyday activities. In 2009, 891 cases of dementia were reported in Maitland and expected to increase to 5,291 by 2050 and will rank Maitland as the 7th highest region in New South Wales (Access Economics 2009).
Health Service Plan for Older People in Maitland City:
Connectivity of Maitland residential area and hospital services through accessible buses and taxis, locating bus stop near services.
Routine analysis of Transport system within Maitland city to ensure the needs for the ageing population.
Effective participation for implementation of the Lower Hunter Transport
To what extent will a rise in tourist numbers have a positive effect on the Castleton area’
The suburb of Pyrmont on the shores of Sydney Harbour has been transformed by the processes of urban renewal into a thriving cosmopolitan residential area, an efficient and sophisticated business centre, and a popular recreational and tourist hub. Through my own observation of the Pyrmont area, I have seen how the painstaking urban planning efforts for the area have come to fruition, and a focal point of the Harbour foreshore created as a result of this.
The aim of the agency is to develop knowledge and skills to cater the residents and ensure they enjoy their life at the aged care. Furthermore, the agency aims to enhance local expertise in mental and physical health care, improve care through training and foster a collaboration with academics, researchers, institutions, volunteers, therapists, doctors and other health care professionals.
In the 1950s Newcastle was known as a sleep city, Dan described it as “moribund” (1) decades had past and very little economic development had taken place between that time frame and families were left to suffer. In 1959, T. Dan Smith became Leader of Newcastle City Council, he set up his own independent planning department in the council and appointed Wilfred Burns as chief officer in 1960. They both wanted to re-modernise Newcastle for the better by undertaking new road plans to resolve the traffic congestion that plagued the city and breath new life into the city by clearing out the slum areas and rebuilding new homes to help improve peoples living conditions. One way Smith helped promote his grand scheme was through a series of models and held public gatherings to help fuel his passion to help change Newcastle, a method used by Richard Grainger who greatly strengthened Newcastle’s status as a regional capital. In order to achieve Grainger’s equivalent he set out to get renowned architects to develop the city, like Le Corbusier , Basil Spence, Leslie Martin, Robert Matthew and even Picasso to help reinforce his vision for the future “Brasilia of the North” (2). In this essay I will closely examine T. Dan Smith’s proposed plans for the new urban motorway system, that would help solve the traffic problem. Also the redevelopment of Eldon Sqaure that would come under scrutiny, but would later become a commercial success. I will also investigate the new Civic Centre that replaced the Old Town Hall and the intention from the local authorities to demolish the Royal Arcade and replace it with a roundabout.
Elderly patients require far more resources medically than younger patients with the same mechanism of injury (Dinh, Roncal, Byrne, & Petchell, 2013), and it is likely due to the deterioration of the body’s systems that come with age. As seen in Fig. 1, the two major causes of death for both sexes from age 65 – 84 are road traffic collisions (RTC) or falls. Figure 1 - The. Major causes of death due to unintentional injury between 2000-2002 (Retrieved from http://www.moh.govt.nz/moh.nsf/pagesmh/5795/$File/older-peoples-health-chart-book-2006-new.pdf).
As of April 1, 2010, many changes in the health care structure is changing. Many of these changes are reorganizing the responsibilities of who makes the decisions on how services are commissioned, the way money is spent and issuing more involvement from local authorities and opening up comp...
A fall is a lethal event that results from an amalgamation of both intrinsic and extrinsic factors which predispose an elderly person to the incident (Naqvi et al 2009). The frequency of hospital admission due to falls for older people in Australia, Canada, UK and Northern Ireland range from 1.6 to 3.0 per 10 000 population (WHO 2012). The prevalence of senior citizen’s falls in acute care settings varies widely and the danger of falling rises with escalating age or frailty. Falls of hospitalized older adults are one of the major patient safety issues in terms of morbidity, mortality, and decreased socialization (Swartzell et al. 2013). Because the multi-etiological factors contribute to the incidence and severity of falls in older society, each cause should be addressed or alleviated to prevent patient’s injuries during their hospital stay (Titler et al. 2011). Therefore, nursing interventions play a pivotal role in preventing patient injury related to hospital falls (Johnson et al. 2011). Unfortunately, the danger of falling rises with age and enormously affect one third of older people with ravages varying from minimal injury to incapacities, which may lead to premature death (Johnson et al. 2011). In addition, to the detrimental impacts on patient falls consequently affect the patient’s family members, care providers, and the health organization emotionally as well as financially (Ang et al. 2011). Even though falls in hospital affect young as well as older patients, the aged groups are more likely to get injured than the youth (Boltz et al. 2013). Devastating problems, which resulted from the falls, can c...
Another focus for change is that over the years the demand for home and community care over hospital care has continued to grow, as stated by the Queens nursing institute “Recent health policy points to the importance of improving and extending services to meet the health and care needs of an increasingly older population and provide services which may have previously been provided in hospital within community settings”.
Sydney is the largest city in Australia area of 12,144.6 km ² which has a population 4.5 million people (2009). City is located on the southeastern coast of Australia, near the Pacific Ocean.
Australia is an independent Western democracy with a population of more than 20 million (20,264,082). Base on some general statistic, its birth rate is 12.14 births/1,000 populations, and population growth rate is 0.85 %.
Elderly resident living in Leisure World Long term care center Brampton, Wood is the community I will be assessing. The facility was established in early 2003, it is located at the intersection of Humber west road and Gore way drive. The home consists of private and shared rooms, accommodates 160 residents with cultural diversity.
It needs to improve its areas of “walkability” and encourage health and environmental factors by adding bike lanes to the heavily biked Church Street. Its roads are not overburdened and its public transit systems are frequent, and highly accessible. One factor to be drawn from this conclusion is that Church and Wellesley’s overall transportation success is not indicative of the GTA as a whole. In fact, its success is the result of government policies that have abetted a focus on highly trafficked, highly populated, highly profitable areas such as the Downtown Core (Keil, Roger, Young, 2008). In the article, Urban Form and Travel Behavior as Tools to Assess Sustainable Transportation in the Greater Toronto Area, the authors conclude that the GTA is headed in a negative direction, and that the goal of sustainable transportation will not be met or improved in the future under the current policies and trends. Overall, the symptoms of Church and Wellesley, although beneficial to the BIA locals, could be seen as a symptom of an greater problem with the city’s transit system that needs to be addressed through political, bureaucratic, and organizational reform ((Zaidan, Esmat, Abdelgadir, Abulibdeh,
The purpose of community profiling is to identify and understand health-related issues, inequalities and needs within a community; with the intention of determining the factors that influence people’s health and wellbeing within that given community in order to highlight gaps in provision to contribute towards making positive health improvements and improving the quality of life of the community. Community profiling as a nurse supports an insight into the population and areas of the geographical communities where nursing care is provided. It allows nurses to gain an understanding of the services provision for a particular health issue within a given community and also provides an awareness into the role and responsibilities of the nurse in facilitating access to services.
The development of urban transportation has not changed with the cities; cities have changed with transportation. This chapter offers an insight into the Past and the future of Urban transportation and is split up into a number of different sections. It includes a timeline of the different forms of transport innovations, starting from the earliest stages of urban transport, dating back to the omnibus (the first type of urban transportation) and working in a chronological order until eventually reaching the automobile. However, these changes in Urban transport did not happen for no reason. Different factors within society meant urban transport needed to evolve; points will be made on why society needed this evolution. In contrast I will observe the problems urban transport has caused in society as a result of its rapid progression. Taking account of both arguments for the evolution of urban transport, I will look at where it will go in the future.