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Question 1

What will be the most important future disabilities?

Answer 1

Chronic diseases

Question 2

Why are Americans living longer?

Answer 2

Effective diagnosis’s and treatments for heart disease and cancer

Question 3

What is the Pre-admission Screening and Resident Review (PASRR)

Answer 3

A federal requirement to ensure that individuals are not inappropriately placed in a nursing home for long-term care

Question 4

What is a skilled nursing facility?

Answer 4

A nursing home that provide the level of care closest to hospital care

Question 5

What are nursing facility services provided from?

Answer 5

Medicaid certified nursing homes that provide three types of services.

Question 6

What are residential care communities/assisted living facilities?

Answer 6

Non-medical facilities that provide a room or apartment, meals, housekeeping, medication management, and assistance with ADL’s

Question 7

What does hospice do?

Answer 7

Hospice helps manage pain and other symptoms associated with dying when conventional treatment is no longer of value.

Question 8

What are other hospice services?

Answer 8

Emotional, psychological, and spiritual support for the patient and family.

Question 9

What is necessary to coordinate the care of older adults with multiple health problems?

Answer 9

Case management

Question 10

Why do older adults purchase a Medicare Supplemental Health Insurance(Medigap)

Answer 10

To cover deductibles and copayments

Question 11

Institutional services refer to specific benefits authorized under what?

Answer 11

Social security act

Question 12

What is Part C and Part D?

Answer 12

medicare advantage and Prescription medications

Question 13

What was added to the 1978 amendment to the OAA?

Answer 13

Native American aging programs

Question 14

What is health literacy?

Answer 14

The degree to which individuals have the capacity to understand and obtain health information needed to make decisions

Question 15

What is Medicare A?

Answer 15

Hospital care

Question 16

What was enacted in response to the poor quality of care and inadequate regulation in U.S. nursing homes?

Answer 16

The Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987

Question 17

What is an evaluation of ADL’s?

Answer 17

Bathing, eating, and dressing are used to measure physical and cognitive function for users of long term services

Question 18

What is hospice?

Answer 18

Something operated on the principle that the dying have special needs that hospital personnel are too busy to handle

Question 19

What is available to individuals 55 years of age or older who are certified by their state to need nursing home care but able to live safely in the community?

Answer 19

PACE

Question 20

What is available to individuals in need of active treatment that consists of a program of specialized and generic training, treatment, and health services?

Answer 20

ICFs

Question 21

What are two ways to improve health literacy?

Answer 21

Use basic language and keep ideas organized

Question 21

When were nursing homes first established ?

Answer 21

In the 19th century to cre for the poor and provide food, shelter, and clothing