Healthy Living
How many glasses of water should an average person drink a day?
What is 8.
What item can you remove from your bathroom to prevent falls?
What is a rug.
True or False: Home health care can be provided where you live, including as an assisted living community.
What is TRUE.
True or False: Hospice is only provided in a special hospice facility.
What is FALSE.
Hospice can be provided wherever you call home.
Before smartphones, what book did people commonly use to look up someone's telephone number?
What is a phone book.
What has one eye but cannot see?
What is a needle.
Name one activiy that keeps the brain active and healthy.
What is puzzels, reading, learning something new, play cards.
What type of footwear is safest for preventing falls?
What is well-fitting, non-slip shoes.
This home health professional can help with medications, wound care, and monitoring health conditions.
What is a nurse.
Hospice care provides support for patients. What other important people can hospice care provide support to?
Who are family members/caregivers.
What is the only continent that is also a country?
What is Australia.
I'm taken from a mine, put inside wood, and used by almost everyone. What am I?
What is pencil lead/graphite.
True or False: You can become dehydrated even if you don't feel thirst?
What is true.
What should you do before standing up if you've been sitting or lying down for a while?
What is sit up slowly, pause, and make sure you aren't dizzy before standing.
This type of therapist helps people improve strength, balance, walking and mobility.
Who is a phyical therapist.
Hospice care can include nurses, aides, social workers, chaplains, and these special helpers who may provide companionship and support.
Who are volunteers.
What food never spoils and has been found edible thousands of years later?
What is honey.
What has many keys but can't open a single door?
What is a piano.
This simple activity can strengthen your legs, support your heart, and improve your mood.
What is walking.
Name one thing you should keep near your bed at night to help prevent falls.
What is a light/night light, walker/cane, or call button.
True or False: A person only qualifies for home health care after a stay in the hospital.
What is FALSE
Insurance generally considers hospice appropriate when a physician certifies a life expectancy of approximately this long or less.
What is six months.
What color is a polar bear's skin underneath its fur?
What is Black
A rooster is sitting on top of a barn and lays an egg. Which side does the egg roll down?
What vitamin should many older adults ask their healthcare provider about because low levels can affect bone and muscle health?
What is vitamin D.
This everyday habit can help prevent falls by improving strength, balance, and coordination. What is it?
What is regular exercise/physical activity.
True or False: You must be homebound to receive Medicare-covered in-home services.
What is TRUE.
True or False: You have to wait until the final days of life to receive hospice care.
What is FALSE.
How many hearts does an octopus have?
What is three.
A cowboy rode into town on Friday. He stayed three days and left on Friday. How?
What fruit contains the highest amount of potassium?
What is an avocado?
What sense should older adults have checked regularly because changes can increase fall risk?
What is vision.
True or False: A person who can drive, but doing so is a taxing effort and they only leave home for medical appoins is not considered homebound.
True or False: Choosing hospice means you have to stay in bed or stop enjoying your normal life and activities.
What is FALSE.
Which is older: the invention of the telephone or sliced bread?
What is the telephone.
1876 vs. commercially sliced bread in 1928. CNS is as old as sliced bread!
What can travel around the world while staying in one corner?
What is a stamp.