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Using tableware as an option of keeping people out of hospitals and home cares
How can telecare become an option of keeping people out of hospital and home cares?
Abstract.
The problem of using hospitals as a place of monitoring less physically able and old people has been in the increase due to the increase of their number. There are a multiple shortcomings that are related to hospitalization as a method of monitoring. This include: congestion in the hospitals, emotional detachments, risk of infections and in some cases malnutrition. Telecare can offer a conclusive solution to these problems.
Introduction
Tele care is offering care of old and the less physically fit people with remote care by providing reassurance needed to enable them to continue living in their living homes. It is a technology of offering electronic monitoring via person centered technologies to ensure maximum care and support to individuals. In many countries telecare has been applied as a practice of offering health care services at a distance. . The use of sensors is one part of the technology which helps in providing support for people who for example are suffering from illnesses like dementia or epilepsy.
Back ground information.
Telecare programme was launched in august of 2006 in Scotland. It was designed to help more p Older People, People with Disabilities and People with mobility impairments to live in their homes for longer with safety and security through an associated and a development fund. In was intended to become an integrated part of the Scotland community care services. The use of this technology reduced the rate at which people were inappropriately admitted to hospitals especially due to falls and other related accidents in their homes.
Research questions
In trying to understand well the research topic the following research questions shall be answered
1. How is the telecare programme packages designed to offer a conclusive solution to healthcare?
2. How does telecare policy affect the health care systems of the community and its impact Peoples lifestyles?
3. What are the management issues that need to be exploited for the implementation of telecare?
4. How does telecare impact the lifestyles of old people and people living with physical complications?
Specific objectives
1. What can be done to improve the efficiency of telecare in offering health solutions?
2. To increase creativity in addressing the system and measures that can be added to the
Technology to make it more effective in terms of cost, capability to be accessed by more
people and lay a platform of expansion in future.
3. To advocate for the use of telecare on behalf of individual consumers statewide and
national level. This involves creating awareness and educating; people on the benefits of
Using telecare as an alternative method of dealing with old age and physical disabilities
Major aims
The major aims of this research is to study how telecare have impacted the health care department and how it has offered solutions from keeping people with physical disabilities and old age people in hospitals and its social and economical benefits to the community as a whole. In this research we will take a case study of home health care and the elderly people living in UK.
Methodology
This research will focus on the different types of assistive technologies that are given to people over the age of 70. The assistive technology in this case refers to devices or systems that will allow old people to perform tasks that they would otherwise be incapable of perform. The devices will increase safety and ease with which they will perform the tasks.
These devices will form part of the tele health and telecare service packages which will involve devices linked to response centers via a personal telephone, alarm services, monitors of fall or fire detectors, and gas detectors. These devices will range from low level devices high tech sophisticated gadgets and hearing equipments. This may also include use of technologies like the access to internet which may pray a big role in ensuring the well being, safety and independence of the old. This research will not focus on how specific assisting devices will work, but on how the devices will be used by individual, organizations in meeting the older people needs and different practitioners. The main priority is to help the older people continue with their lives while living at home to avoid social isolation and increase their independence while per taking their daily chaos. (Roger B. Diane R. 2008)
Limitations
Among the limitations of this research is the cost and resources implication of telecare. It
Is a very expensive undertaking as it involves the working of professionals who work at the call alarm centers and 24 hours response service.
Risk taking. Some older people who are becoming older and want to remain at home and keep their personal lives and dairy routines private. This makes it hard for the study to be undertaken as some of them sees it as a way of publicizing their affairs which they do not condone. A study conducted indicates that older people who are suffering from falls do not want their falls to be known for fear of negative consequences like relocation to institutional care. (Hawley 2004).
Research validity and reliability
The devices used in each investigation were evaluated in terms of convergent validity and discriminate reliability. The factors analyzed were then concluded to give a conclusive picture of how the telecare devices worked in comparison to use of hospitals as a tool of offering and monitoring health aspects of the old.
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The Tell-Tale Heart
Julissa Lizzette Garza
Derec Moore
ENGL 1302
February 25, 2020
The Tell-Tale Heart
Mental illness is a health condition that affects a person’s thinking, emotion, and behavior. In the Tell-Tale Heart, Edgar Allan Poe uses allegory, symbolism and imagery of an unnamed narrator to defuse the actions and explanation of mental illness. The anonymous narrator remains an unreliable narrator. It is evident the narrator is irrational and mentally unstable. The narrator starts as taking care of an elderly man with a bad eye. Later then decides to kill the old man and in the end; the narrator’s guilt became unbearable leading him to surrender to the officers.
In the Tell-Tale Heart, Edgar Allan Poe uses allegory of an unnamed narrator to defuse the actions and explanation of mental illness. An allegory could be a story, poem or picture that could divulge a hidden message or meaning. The narrator disobeys all privacy meant to be kept for a bedroom. The narrator in The Tell-Tale Heart uses a dark lantern to go unnoticed as he peaked through the old man’s room to watch him as he slept. (Poe) The bedroom is where one feels most vulnerable as they are unconscious. The narrator violated all bedroom rules by infiltrating the old man’s room standing over him while he slept. Somnophilia is a type of fetish where people get off by watching other humans sleep, as what the narrator did. The narrator went into the old man’s room every midnight for seven days. This entails that the narrator felt compassion toward the character to keep returning as the old man was unaware.
In the Tell-Tale Heart, Edgar Allan Poe uses symbolism of an unnamed narrator to defuse the actions and explanation of mental illness. The eye is part of the old man the narrator could not accept. The eye symbolizes the narrator’s frenzy and obsession. “I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye for ever.” (Poe) As the narrator began to take care of the old man, he began to loathe the eye. The eye was referred as the “vulture eye”, a bird staring him or her down. One night the narrator waited in the old man’s room and the old man woke up shouting “who’s there”. As the old man sat up the narrator saw the eye and grew instant anger towards the eye; at that moment the anonymous narrator knew the eye had to be killed. The narrator approached the old man and covered his face with the bed. Suffocating him, leaving no air way flow to breathe. In minutes the old man was dead. After checking the old man’s pulse, the narrator then chopped up his corpse and hid it underneath a board that shaped the floor. Walla Laini Kawisa was charged with numerous numbers of murders taken place at night, in the victim’s homes. (Brietzke) The narrator made the decision to kill the old man because he felt the need to get rid of the taunting eye that made the character skin crawl. Biased is an unfair judgement. For example, you own a restaurant and you think your food is better than anyone else’s because it is your restaurant. The narrator concluded taking the old man’s life based on its personal feelings. The narrator believed the old man’s eye was a bother. Not only did the anonymous narrator feel uncomfortable everyday but also felt there would be a huge weight off his or her chest if the eye was no longer in sight. Based on the his or her own feelings; it made the narrator take the initiative to proceed with the murder. Despite knowing the old man was innocent and harmless.
In the Tell-Tale Heart, Edgar Allan Poe uses imagery of an unnamed narrator to defuse the actions and explanation of mental illness. Auditory imagery is used to explain sounds. “But the beating grew louder, louder!” (Poe) As the narrator goes nuts, the speaker grows an obsession for the loud heartbeat he or she hears from the old man. The recurrence of the heartbeat is what drove the speaker to surrender to the officers. There was a knock on the door and he or she went downstairs to see who appeared at the door; three police officers. A neighbor reported strange crying from an old man. The narrator mentioned to the officers the cry had come from himself/herself; the old man had gone to visit a friend, he was not home. The longer the officers stayed in the house chitchatting the louder the old man’s heartbeat grew. The narrator could no longer bear the sound of the old man’s heartbeat causing him to confess to the officers where he put the old man’s body. Guilty conscience can cause people to kill or commit suicide. It can provoke anger and emptiness, affect someone’s relationship, happiness or future. (Brice) If guilt is not handled properly it can also affect your thinking skills causing paranoia and delusion. The narrator knew he or she had committed a crime. The speaker thought he or she solved the taunting eye by murdering the old man. In reality, what the narrator thought would be peace, the old man’s presence still haunted him making him hallucinate and delusional of the sounds being heard.
In the Tell-Tale Heart, the narrator wrestles with insanity driving him or her to commit heinous crimes. The narrator tries to normalize his actions to hide his mental illness. “First of all I dismembered the corpse.” (Poe) Looking at the old man’s abnormal eye caused the speaker to take death upon his or her own hands. Deciding to kill to elderly man. In conclusion Edgar Allan Poe builds the thrill and tension between the narrator causing him or her to lose their mind. If the narrator was not crazy, he or she would have nor either killed the old man or started hearing things. If the narrator had not started hearing sounds he or she would have never surrender to the officers.
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Using Social Media To Promote A Small Business
Using Social Media To Promote A Small Business
Contents
TOC o “1-3” h z u HYPERLINK l “_Toc379012476” Introduction PAGEREF _Toc379012476 h 1
HYPERLINK l “_Toc379012477” Asses your assets PAGEREF _Toc379012477 h 1
HYPERLINK l “_Toc379012478” Have a social media marketing strategy PAGEREF _Toc379012478 h 2
HYPERLINK l “_Toc379012479” Have a social media presence PAGEREF _Toc379012479 h 2
HYPERLINK l “_Toc379012480” Find a social media manager PAGEREF _Toc379012480 h 2
HYPERLINK l “_Toc379012481” Keep your clients updated PAGEREF _Toc379012481 h 3
HYPERLINK l “_Toc379012482” Interact with your clients PAGEREF _Toc379012482 h 3
Introduction
Social media can be defined as the use of web based and mobile technologies to communicate into an interactive dialogue. Social media is the biggest evolution in the media this decade and arguably this century.
With the significant developments of the internet towards the end of the last century the evolution of social media was bound to happen. The rapid development of search engines like Google, yahoo or social networking sites like face book and micro blogs like twitter, the transmission and distribution of business related information across the globe has become a matter of real time communication.
The communication of information has become more personal, interactive and less expensive, hence it is an appropriate or a cost effective way for small business owners to market their businesses using social media.
Some key steps a small business owner can take to create and attract clients their businesses by using social media are as follows:
Asses your assets
Be sure of what you are trying to promote, for instance what are your assets and what kind of clients are your targeting with your marketing. In this regard there is a bigger target audience you can reach through social media marketing.
Have a social media marketing strategy Social media like any other marketing tool needs a marketing strategy. This will guide you on how to undertake important strategies and the most effective ways to implement each step of your marketing strategy.
Have a social media presenceIn today’s extremely competitive business world, entrepreneurs are required to be aggressive, innovative and on the cutting edge of any development that will help them accrue greater profits so it doesn’t pay for small business owners to remain silent while their big business counterparts like conglomerates and monopolies take advantage of social media to market their products almost for free.
Don’t be shy to make your business present in the social media because it’s more likely that a potential client is reading about your business and what it has to offer. With your businesses available on social media outlets like face book or twitter you are guaranteed free or cheap marketing. Ultimately if you don’t adapt to current marketing trends you run the risk of being edged out by the more organized big business monopolies.
Find a social media managerSocial media management is a challenging task so sign up with a social media manager before you start posting any information about your businesses on social media outlets.
These management experts have the skills and abilities to manage your accounts on one site and schedule when to issue any information. This will free you from spending most of your time trying to manage your accounts by your self.
Keep your clients updated
This can be done by first opening a web site and then provide testimonials or videos of your business and people enjoying your business on social media outlets like you tube.
Post interesting or attractive videos on your website and Let your clients know about the latest improvements in your products like value added to your commodities or the favorable pricing such as discounts.
Interact with your clients Social media marketing has become more interactive because when a business owner signs up for an account with google, twitter or face book, the information provided about their businesses becomes public information accessible to every one who cares to browse the internet and follow products or commodities on sale.
Some of the items regularly followed are to do with business transactions for instance marketing sites like EBay specializes in providing advertisement services for numerous business clients and face book has applications that allow its users to sell and purchase items i.e. the commodities are available at a touch of a button.
The use of micro blogs like twitter or social networking sites like face book is advisable because it allows small business owner to get instant feedback from customers or potential clients on the success of your product brands. This enables you to improve on your service provision based on client needs. Also Twitter and face book provide their registered users with the ability to “follow” or indicate if they ” like or unlike” a companies’ products.
Short surveys can be carried out to find out why clients are interested in your products hence providing small business owners with the ability to interact regularly and instantly with clients or potential customers leading to improved product quality, customer service delivery and marketing skills.
References
Top of Form
Halligan, B., & Shah, D. (2010). Inbound marketing: Get found using Google, social media, and blogs. Hoboken, N.J: Wiley.
Bottom of Form
Kym McNicholas (2011) How to use social media to media to promote your small business. Forbes Internet Article.
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