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This is a government entitlement program that primarily insures individuals over age 65.
What is Medicare?
These may include written declaration of a person's desires regarding lifesaving care.
What are Advance Directives?
This type of care is a vulnerable period for many older adults, particularly if the patient has multiple comorbidities or if care team members from different settings don't communicate effectively with each other and with the patient/family.
What is transitional care?
This is someone who provides care to another person and usually is female, 50 years of age and married
What is a caregiver.
This is a part of Medicare added after traditional Medicare was created to offer a prescription coverage option for older adults.
What is Part D?
This process may include making meaning of one's life and managing worldly affair activities.
What is life closure?
This interdisciplinary program receives capitated funds from Medicare and Medicaid to provide comprehensive services to dual-eligible, nursing home-eligible patients who are aging in place.
What is PACE, Program of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly?
An aging society, Increased race, ethnic, cultural and linguistic diversity ,Gap between demand fro and supply of caregivers , Unprecedented care demands , are all examples of
What are examples of critical drivers of caregiving.
This is the group of individuals who receives insurance coverage through both Medicare and Medicaid and are typically low-income older adults.
Who are dual eligibles?
This type of care includes hospice but can also be care focused on quality of life that takes place earlier in the chronic care continuum.
What is palliative care?
This type of care is covered long-term through Medicaid for eligible individuals, but is only covered for 100 days through Medicare.
What is Skilled Nursing Facility care?
Anxiety, higher morbidity and mortality rates, complicated grief, are known negative effects on who.
Who are caregivers.
A concept of the Affordable Care Act that requires insurance companies to cover people even if they have a pre-existing condition.
What is guaranteed issue?
These are two common barriers to quality end of life care.
What are 1) misunderstanding of or stigma regarding hospice and palliative care and 2) denial of death.
Usually, for Medicare to cover this type of care, a person must be homebound and the PCP must believe the person can benefit from short-term services.
What is home care?
Many employed family caregivers do have unapaid or paid leave benefits from work.
What is false.
This is a coverage gap period during which older adults have to pay the full cost of prescription drugs out of pocket.
What is the Medicare Part D "donut hole"?
These are Medicare's four major requirements for hospice eligibility.
What are: Part A beneficiary, with a prognosis of six months or fewer, who opts for hospice rather than curative treatments, and selects a program that is approved by Medicare to offer hospice services?
Mr. Collins has significant retirement savings. Right now he is able to complete all IADLs and ADLs independently but he would enjoy socializing with other older adults and not having to care for his lawn anymore. He'd like to live somewhere where could seamlessly transition to receive more care and services if he needs them later on in his life. This setting of care may be best for him.
What is a CCRC (Continuing Care Retirement Community)?
This pathway is often taken by caregivers and includes: 1) sporadic care, 2) IADL care, 3) ADL care, 4) Placement, 5) Death
What is the care trajectory.