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Terms of Care | Part Two
by frank
February 18, 2020
The below list is an ongoing collection of definitions of terms and services relevant to this months theme. These are colloquial definitions created with and by medical professionals. Part one can be found here.
Long Term Care Services
Facility-based long-term care services include: residential facilities, assisted living facilities, nursing homes, and continuing care retirement communities.
*Board and care homes, also called residential care facilities or group homes, are small private facilities, usually with 20 or fewer residents. Rooms may be private or shared. Residents receive personal care and meals and have staff available around the clock. Nursing and medical care usually are not provided on site.
**Assisted living is for people who need help with daily care, but not as much help as a nursing home provides. Assisted living facilities range in size from as few as 25 residents to 120 or more. Typically, a few "levels of care" are offered, with residents paying more for higher levels of care.
Assisted living residents usually live in their own apartments or rooms and share common areas. They have access to many services, including up to three meals a day; assistance with personal care; help with medications, housekeeping, and laundry; 24-hour supervision, security, and on-site staff; and social and recreational activities. Exact arrangements vary from state to state.
***Nursing homes, also called skilled nursing facilities, provide a wide range of health and personal care services. Their services focus on medical care more than most assisted living facilities. These services typically include nursing care, 24-hour supervision, three meals a day, and assistance with everyday activities. Rehabilitation services, such as physical, occupational, and speech therapy, are also available.
Community Based Services
Community-based services are designed to support individuals living in their own community and include a broad array of outpatient services, medication management, case management, crisis services, and intensive evidence-based services as well as a variety of other services provided on a lessthan-24-hour basis.
SAMHSA (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Adminstration: lead agency in HHS)
Funds community mental health centers, childrens mental health services, projects for homelessness transition, protection and advocacy for individuals with mental illness.
HRSA (Health Resources and Services Admin)
Health care for rural, HIV, mothers/families and a lot of public health programs like national loan forgiveness.
CMS (Center for Medicaid and Medicare)
*Medicare: older americans, end stage renal disease, anyone getting disability insurance.
*Medicaid: low income individuals.
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The Inherent Politics of Art
by frank news
December 14, 2018
Andrea Fraser, a performance artist and professor at UCLA, and John Miller, an artist, critic and professor at Barnard, on bureaucracy, politics, money, identity and art.
1) Andrea Fraser on Art, Money, Politics, and Power | October 28, 2018
Do you have a proposed solution? Ways in which you think that these institutions should be financed? Is the answer to collect small donations?
That’s one solution. I have done quite a bit of research on the history, not only of arts organizations in the U.S., but also of philanthropy, the nonprofit sector, and trusteeship. When you take in the whole picture, it gets harder, unfortunately, to envision change. But when you extend that picture beyond cultural organizations and the nonprofit sector to include civic, professional, and other kinds of community organizations, one does find other models. In the visual arts and in the big cultural and educational institutions, the model is self-selecting and self-perpetuating boards who are usually required to make personal financial contributions, which collapse patronage and governance.
I know of almost no cultural institutions in America that have that structure. I do know of cultural institutions in Europe that have that structure, such as Kunstvereins, or art associations, in Germany, which have histories that go back to the early part of the 19th century. They are supported by their members, who also elect the board and participate in governance.
There are a lot of organizations that have that structure. Museums have not, for the most part, had that structure, although there are museums in the book that started out as art associations.
2) In The Studio With John Miller | October 10, 2018
I think we are in a period where many are laying claims to identity based on a set, and it's not even ill-intended, but it just seems natural that some sense that identity is trans-historical or something. That's one of the problems of that.
One thing I often think about is the definition of black that we ordinarily ascribe to skin color. But, if you go far enough back in U.S. history, Irish and Italians are categorized as black. It shows how it has to do with social hierarchy and shifts in that.
One funny thing that happened to me over the summer was that we have friends who teach in Koln and Dusseldorf, we did visiting artist spots with them and when we were in Chris William's class, we spoke to several of his students, and they did presentations. Interestingly, none of the work was about identity. Not even the work of a trans-woman in the class.