The participants experienced difficulties achieving quality in elder care, particularly in relation to the simultaneous staff reductions and increased needs of elder care.
Steven Dawson Bronx, June 4, 2010 The writer is president of PHI, which is dedicated to improving the quality of elder care and disability services by improving the jobs of direct-care workers.
Steven Dawson Bronx, Feb. 1, 2010 The writer is president of PHI, which is dedicated to improving the quality of elder care and disability services by improving the jobs of direct-care workers.
Malnutrition was stressed as an important dimension of the quality of elder care.
The politicians and civil servants reported that adequate nutrition is an important dimension of quality in elder care.
The participants worked at a planning and control as well as executive level and had both budget and quality of elder care responsibilities.
In the public health care system, HDMs i.e. the politicians and appointed civil servants have both budget and quality of elder care responsibilities.
The ethical responsibility for upholding nutritional quality in elder care should be more equally distributed between staff, local management and persons holding top positions.
The HDMs were elected politicians and appointed civil servants at a planning and control as well as executive level that had both budget and quality of elder care responsibilities.
In a public healthcare system, the overall responsibility for the budget and quality of elder care rests with governmental politicians and civil servants, i.e. with those in high positions and with power.
