Nursing - Elderly Patient Care in Canada

Running head: Nursing
Elderly patient care in Canada
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Elderly Patient Care in Canada
Introduction
Different problems can be identified in the nursing and clinical world of Canada. The
challenges affect the nursing facilities and the services for the Canadian patients. Excessive
workload, unfulfilled job satisfaction are some predominant factors which are affecting the
services of nurses. Patient safety and quality of the treatment are important for managing
elderly patient in the medical setting. Medication management, fall prevention, unplanned
hospital admission with wound and pressure ulcer management are the main areas which are
required to be improved during taking care of the elderly patients (Bick, Dowding, 2019).
The essay will discussed how nursing staffs will provide proper healthcare provision to the
older adults who are admitted to the different hospital care setting.
Discussion
Identifies the issue
The elderly patients face different problems such as finding the physician for the
family and getting medical support during the critical health condition. The government
benefits are not satisfactory for bearing the burden of medical expenses in the Canadian
healthcare system. The senior citizen benefits are not effective in covering or supporting in
different monetary payments to several hospitals and dental service care (Poinen et al., 2019).
Inadequate facility of and medical services for long term care management, complications for
continuing care and establishing the rehabilitation program are the practical field issues
which are required to address for improving the healthcare setting for the older adult
people. Inadequate community based healthcare system is another prominent challenge for
the patients as they face difficulties when they need to go to a distant place to get medical aid.
Elder abuse and neglect is very common in a larger part of Canada and to prevent the abuse

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different provisional plans and committees are taking initiatives. According to a study, nearly
25% of the older patient will be affected by elder abuse has been detected in Canada (Yon,
Mikton, Gassoumis & Wilber, 2017).According to a study, 5.5% of the elderly participants
are unable to afford the more than one drug but 8.2% of patient has at least one
prescription(Law et al., 2018). Elder patient abuse in hospitals and nursing homes happens
due to excessive stress and burnout of nurses. The elder patients face discrimination due to
the lack of medical and financial affluences. Moreover, they lose their functionalities
throughout the life-cycle as their capacity for reacting, thinking, relating and learning get
deteriorates.
Background and scenario/case study
In this essay, a case study of a patient named, Mr Y, will be discussed. In the case
study, the patient was suffering from dementia or more specifically early signs of
Alzheimer’s disease. He could not remember anything properly (rnao.ca.2020). His family
decided to shift him in the long term treatment care facility where Mrs Y discovered that
after two weeks her husband is not be able eat and sleep properly. As a result she asked the
reason to the nursing staffs and hospital authority about her husband’s health deterioration.
According to the nursing standard of practices, the case study represents that different
nursing standards have not been followed in the case management. Case study shows that
during the treatment, Mr Y kicked, hurt and scratched the healthcare workers. There are
different nursing standard of practices provided by Ontario College of Nursing and
Registered Nurses Association of Ontario. The ethics for nursing were provided by the
Canadian Nurses Association for patient treatment and management.
Mr Y had the memory related problems for very long time and he has been affected
by the disorder with different syndrome. He was not eating from the day of admission and