A family member who provides help with personal tasks, financial management, grocery shopping and rides to the doctor’s office.
What is a caregiver?
100
The state agency responsible for licensing all nursing homes in Texas.
What is the Department of Aging and Disability Services (DADS)?
100
Name one state agency that has the authority to investigate allegations of elder financial exploitation.
What is Adult Protective Services, the State Securities Board or the Attorney General's Office.
100
This term means a regular payment made during a person's retirement from which that person or their employer has contributed during their working life.
What is a pension
100
This term is commonly used to describe a bill received from a doctor you thought was fully covered by your health insurance.
What is "surprise medical bill"?
200
A program that provides family caregivers with a “break” from their caregiving activities.
What is respite care?
200
A type of chemical restraint used in nursing homes.
What are antipsychotic medications
200
This is the name of the AARP initiative devised to educate and empower people to fight back against fraud and financial abuse.
What is AARP's Fraud Watch Network
200
This is the race/ethnicity demographic that has the least access to workplace retirement savings plans in Texas.
What is Hispanic/Latino
200
The new lower threshold for a surprise medical bill to qualify for mediation, enacted by the Texas legislature in 2015.
What is $500
300
The value of the care provided by unpaid family caregivers in Texas.
What is "invaluable" or "priceless"?
300
Name for legislation that requires a nursing home license to be revoked after three serious violations—takes its reference from baseball.
What is “three strikes.”
300
These institutions are often considered the "first line of defense" against elder financial exploitation.
What are banks or financial institutions
300
This is the name of the AARP initiative that seeks to promote greater private retirement savings.
What is Work and Save
300
The party responsible for triggering mediation when they receive a surprise medical bill.