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These are the six basic personal care activities: eating, toileting, dressing, bathing, transferring, and continence
What are Activities of Daily Living or ADLs
Type of Insurance Policy that can be used to pay for Assisted Living and/or home care
What is a Long Term Care Policy
This type of senior housing generally bridges the gap between living independently and living in a nursing home.
What is Assisted Living
At least, how many ADLs do you require help with before you can apply for VA benefits or medicaid
What is 2 or more ADLs
This senior living option provides daily transportation to the location and provides meals, activities and help with taking medications
What is Adult Day Care
Type of senior living called CCRC
What is Continuing Care Retirement Community
Majority of assisted living communities require that a resident pay privately for a certain number of months before applying for medicaid
What is a spend down period
Community that offers specialized programs for residents suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and/or other forms of memory loss.
What is Memory Care?
Adults who are caring for both children at home and elderly parents at the same time; might also be juggling work or career.
What is the Sandwich Generation
This option sends an CHHA or CNA to the senior's home
What is Home Care and Home Health Care
Range of activities that are more complex than those needed for the ADLs, i.e. using the telephone, preparing meals, maintaining the home, managing finances, shopping, and using transportation.
What are Instrumental Activities of Daily Living or IADLs
Veteran funding that can be used to pay for Assisted Living or Home Care
What is Veterans Aid & Attendance
These homes are smaller in size and usually accommodate between 2-8 residents but provide a watchful environment and personal services to adults who require varying degrees of supervision and protective care
What is a residential care home?
Residence for independent seniors with few medical problems who wish to reduce the responsibilities of maintaining a residence.
What is a CCRC?
State licensed facility that provides 24-hour skilled patient care and is considered to be one step below hospital acute care
What is a Skilled Nursing Facility or SNF?
An 'AL' is what type of senior living option
What is 'Assisted Living'
Type of funding when a senior sells their life insurance policy
What is a Life Settlement
When medical care cannot offer a cure, this option provides care, comfort and support for persons with life-limiting conditions and their families.
What is Hospice Care
This is the number of eligible years that Medicaid can do a 'look back'
What is '5'
The principle healthcare program of the federal government supposed to provide healthcare insurance for persons 65 and older
What is Medicare?
This type of insurance policy can pay for assisted living and/or home care
What is Long Term Care or LTC
Federal Aid that can pay for assisted living and home care
What is Medicaid
A community that offers several levels of assistance, including independent living, assisted living and nursing home care so residents have the ability to “age in place.”
What is a CCRC or Continuing Care Retirement Community
Public assistance funded through the state to older persons with lower income who have minimal assets or who are considered “medically needy” because they are unable to pay for health care.
What is Medicaid
This facility provides family members a time of relief (respite) from the constant everyday care of an elderly person.
What is Adult Day Care