Missions’ on the Move is an assisted living organization that provides services for persons with various needs. Missions’ on the Move has been in existence since 2005. Our mission and purpose has stayed the same; “Providing a premier service to special people”. We presently operate 30 assisted living homes over 30 states in the United States of America. Our services are unique in the way we cater to and care for a complexity of people with special or various needs. We presently service several populations: Mental Health consisting of serving people with Mental Illness, dual diagnoses and substance abuse. Then their is the Developmental Disability population consisting of serving people with mental retardation, intellectual disabilities, head injury, specific learning disabilities, speech/language impairment, epilepsy/seizure disorder, deafness/severe visual impairment, cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy and many undetermined disabilities. Don’t forget our aging population consisting of the elderly. As some may know, many assisted living homes/organizations world wide are normally geared to providing services to a segregated population based on specific disabilities. From the very beginning Missions’ on the Move’s purpose was to care and rehabilitate from a holistic approach. We assess the need and gear our services around the need. We have implemented a cross disability approach. Our mission has proved that no matter the disability your structure and supports in place is what makes programs and/or goals successful. All 30 assisted living homes operated by our organization are housed with people with different disabilities. We believe that the matching process is the most critical part to placing housemates together.... ... middle of paper ... ...port, drive and love with a venture abroad. Works Cited Zinni, T. & Koltz, T. (2009). Leading The Charge: Leadership Lessons From the Battlefield to the Boardroom. U.S. New York, NY Palgrave Macmillan. Kelley, Tom. (2001). The Art of Innovation (First Edition). New York, NY: Doubleday. Jr.Thomas, R. R (2006). Building on the promise of diversity: How can we move to the next level in our workplace, our communities, and our society. New York, NY: American Management Association. Carr, K. D., Hard, J. H., & Trahant, J. W (1996). Managing the change process: A field book for change agents, consultants, team leader and re-engineering managers. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill. Adler, J. N. (2008). International Dimensions of Organizational Behavior (fifth edition). Ohio, Mason: South-Western Cengage Learning.
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Long-term care (LTC) covers a wide range of clinical and social services for those who need assistance due to functional limitations. These limitations usually result from complications associated with age related chronic conditions, from disabilities related to birth defects, brain damage, or mental retardation in children; or from major illnesses or injuries suffered by adults (Shi L. & Singh D.A., 2011). LTC encompasses a variety of services including traditional clinical services, social services and housing. Unlike acute care, long-term care is much more complicated and has objectives that are much harder to measure. Acute care mainly focuses on returning patients to their previous functional level and is primarily provided by specialty providers. However, LTC mainly focuses on preventing the physical and mental deterioration of an individual and promoting social adjustments to suit the different stages of decline. In addition the providers of LTC are more diverse than those in acute care and is offered in both formal and informal settings, which include: hospitals, physicians, home care, adult day care, nursing home care, assisted living and even informal caregivers such as friends and family members. Long-term care services have been dominated by community based services, which include informal care (86%, about 10 to 11 million) and formal institutional care delivered in nursing facilities (14%, 1.6 million) (McCall, 2001). Of more than the 10 million Americans estimated to require LTC services, 58% are elderly and 42% are under the age of 65 (Shi L. & Singh D.A., 2011). The users of LTC are either frail elderly or disabled and because of the specific care needs of this population, the care varies based on an indiv...
Knight, K. E. (2011). Federally qualified health centers minimize the impact of loss of frequency and independence of movement in older adult patients through access to transportation services. Journal of Aging Research, 1-6. doi:10.4061/2011/898672
If an older individual is not given the proper care in an assisted living home, it will damage the well being of the individual. “Resident independence with ADLs
"Disability the facts." New Internationalist Nov. 2013: 20+. Advanced Placement Government and Social Studies Collection. Web. 27 May 2014.
According to Heller and Factor (as cited in Wood & Jackson, 2003) the number of “older adults age 60 and older who are diagnosed with mental retardation or developmental disabilities is expected to reach 1,065,000 by 2030.” In fact, “in the last 30 years, the life expectancy of people with intellectual disability has increased more dramatically than that of the general population” (Bigby, 2010). Doka and Lavin (2003) report that advances in medical care and a shift to deinstitutionalization have contributed to this increase in life expectancy for developmentally disabled adults. Increasingly, federal policy has linked addressing the housing needs of older adults with those of low-income and non-elderly disabled individuals, according to Annie Thombs, former Community Development Administrator for the City of Gastonia (personal communication, March 30, 2011). The assumption that the housing and service needs of all three populations can be met under the same fiscal and policy umbrella has created challenges for social service agencies and health care providers dealing with developmentally disabled seniors who “tend to reside more in family or small-group settings rather than independently” (Sterns and Ansello, 2008, p. 186). In effect, federal housing policies have failed to address the unique problems associated with elderly individuals suffering from developmental disabilities, according to Doka and Lavin (2003). This paper will examine federal housing policy, specifically the Fair Housing Act, which was enacted to ensure availability of existing housing to all persons, including older adults with developmental disabilities, as reported by Thombs (personal communication, March 30, 2011). Further, an examination of public housing ...
If you look at the evolution of disability –the people with disabilities were excluded totally from their communities they were beyond the boundaries of what was acceptable, decent and normal in their communities .Then the charities started taking care of people with disabilities and later the Government started to care for people with disabilities by building institutions and eventually the institutions were pulled down .At one point the government thought the Sheltered workshops were an alternative to include people with disabilities .In 2013 the revolutionary model of NDIS is introduced for private market to offer consumer choice and control to people with disabilities .
According to a survey conducted by the Center for Disease Control, 22.2% of the United States population reported having some sort of disability (2013). While the Americans with Disabilities Act (1990), acts to prevent the discrimination of people with physical and mental disabilities, it has been unsuccessful in erasing it all together. Almost a quarter of the US population is disabled, meaning that almost a quarter of the population face some form of inequality due to their physical
The largest function of the Housing First program is to ensure that people with mental illness have somewhere to stay on a permanent basis. This will help the government to take better care of their health since they can easily be accessed. The program helps deal with the senior demographic in the country and helps ensure that medical care can be provided in the comfort of a home. In most cases, service participants that are suppo...
In fact, learning disabilities generally will count for a large portion of the caseloads in the department. Other than learning disabilities, Disability Support Services also works with students with physical, mental, emotional, and developmental disabilities. These disabilities can be visible, such as wheelchair-bound students, or hidden, such as autistic or clinically depressed students. Capella (personal communication, December 1, 2015) explains that she has seen a rise in recent years of students with debilitating anxiety. Currently, Disability Support Services serves around 1,000 students and continues to grow
Healthcare professionals lack experience and education on how to work with hospitalized patients with intellectual disabilities (reference). Admittance into the hospital can put a lot of stress on individuals with ID as well as their caregivers, and the healthcare professionals involved. Balancing the needs of individuals with intellectual disabilities is a challenge for many professionals throughout the hospital due to multiple factors have produced years of social oppression, institutional discrimination, and attitudinal barriers. Communication is the key to maintaining a seamless flow between health care professionals and their special need patients. By advocating for a reform in training of health care professions, this would help with increasing the quality of services provided for those with intellectual
This act established old age benefits and funding for assistance to blind individuals and disabled children and the extension of existing vocational rehabilitation programmes. In present day society, since the passage of the ADA (American with Disabilities Act of 1990) endless efforts of the disability rights movement have continued on the focus of the rigorous enforcement of the ADA, as well as accessibility for people with disabilities in employment, technology, education, housing, transportation, healthcare, and independent living for the people who are born with a disability and for the people who develop it at some point in their lives. Although rights of the disabled have significantly gotten better globally throughout the years, many of the people who have disabilities and are living in extremely undeveloped countries or supreme poverty do not have access nor rights to any benefits. For example, people who are in wheelchairs as a transportation device have extremely limited access to common places such as grocery stores, schools, employment offices,
As you know, more students with disabilities have been entering general education classrooms due to changes in legislation. I have had many students with different disabilities in my classroom. I have had students with autism, communication disorders, and down syndrome, just to name a few. I have, of course, had plenty of typically developing students as well. .
People with disabilities face many obstacles throughout their life. There are many things that can be done to ensure that a person with disabilities reaches their full potential. People with disabilities face many issues pertaining to lifelong learning such as; the beginning diagnosis, early intervention, assessments, educational progress and transitional programs.
...eglected social issues in recent history (Barlow). People with disabilities often face societal barriers and disability evokes negative perceptions and discrimination in society. As a result of the stigma associated with disability, persons with disabilities are generally excluded from education, employment, and community life which deprives them of opportunities essential to their social development, health and well-being (Stefan). It is such barriers and discrimination that actually set people apart from society, in many cases making them a burden to the community. The ideas and concepts of equality and full participation for persons with disabilities have been developed very far on paper, but not in reality (Wallace). The government can make numerous laws against discrimination, but this does not change the way that people with disabilities are judged in society.