Settings and Services
Services for life threatening illnesses such as end-stage heart and lung disease
What is hospice?
OBRA
What is Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987?
Scheduled stays for the older adult who needs care at a long-term facility to give the caregiver a break from the responsibility of providing care
ADLs
What is activities of daily living?
How many categories of residents are found in a long-term care facility?
What is two categories?
Bridge between acute and long term care
What is institutional setting?
MDS
What is minimum data set?
Includes shoppers, respite care workers, personal care attendants, home health aides, and nursing care staff.
What is home health care?
This setting serves the older adult population and the mentally or physically disabled person and offer a wide variety of services.
What is residential care settings?
What is the second category?
This setting has structured comprehensive programs
What is adult daycare?
RAI
What is resident assessment instrument?
Community programs which deliver one hot meal per day (Meals on Wheels).
What are nutritional programs?
IADLs
What is instrumental activities of daily living?
They are required by law to visit the long-term care settings unannounced.
What are surveyors?
A care setting which adults pay a small amount of rent
What is assisted living?
RAPs
What is the resident assessment protocols?
Government or community funded centers providing recreational activities, lunch, health screening, exercise classes, educational classes, and transportation to and from the site.
What are senior centers?
Assistance with health maintenance and health referrals during any part of the day but for less than 24 hours.
What is adult daycare?
Category is the short term resident, sometimes called the short -stay resident.
What is the first category?
Ethnicity plays a role in which population will live in home.
What is home?
OSHA
What is the Occupational Safety and Health Administration?
A federally funded, state-operated program of medical assistance to people with low incomes.
What is Medicaid?
In this setting, health care professionals work together as an interdisciplinary team to meet the needs of the resident.
What is long-term interdisciplinary care team?
A federally funded national health insurance program in the United States for people older than 65
What is Medicare?