Medicare Services
A federal health insurance program for people who are 65 or older, have certain disabilities or permanent kidney failure, or are ill and cannot work.
What is Medicare?
A medical assistance program for people who have a low income, as well as for people with disabiities. It is funded by the government and each state.
What is Medicaid?
Facility for people who need 24-hour skilled care.
What is long-term care?
An illness that eventually causes death.
What is a terminal illness?
Uses music to accomplish specific goals, such as managing stress, improving mood, and cognition.
What is music therapy?
Helps pay for doctor services, other medical services, and equipment.
What is Medicare Part B?
Funded in part by Medicaid to help pay for health care of children.
What is the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP)? Offered to families who make too much money to qualify for Medicaid.
Medically necessary care given by a skilled nurse or thrapist; it is available 24 hours a day.
What is skilled care?
An illness that lasts a long time, even a lifetime.
What is a chronic condition? Includes physical disabilities, heart disease, and dementia
Letting residents believe they live in the past or in imaginary circumstances.
What is validation therapy? It is useful in cases of severe dementia.
Helps pay for medications perscribed for treatment.
What will Medicare Part D?
Requires the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to update poverty guidelines once a year and apply to the eligibility guidelines for Medicaid and CHIP.
What is the Omnibus Budget Reconcilliation Act (OBRA) of 1981?
Care given to people who have serious diseases or who are dying that emphasizes relieving pain, controlling symptoms, and preventing side effects.
What is palliative care?
A general term that refers to a serious loss of mental abilites.
What is dementia?
Encouraging residents to remember and talk abut the past.
What is reminiscence therapy?
Helps pay for care in a hospital, skilled nursing facility, home health, or hospice.
What is Medicare Part A?
Specific services Medicaid offers to children.
What is Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment (EPSDT)? Includes history review, dental care, hearing evaluations, vaccinations, lead screening, mental health care, physical exam, and vision care
Holistic, compassionate care given to people who have approximately six months or less to live.
What is hospice care?
A progressive incurable disease that causes tangled nerve fibers and protein deposits to form in the brain, which eventually causes dementia.
What is Alheimer's disease?
Uses activities that the resident enjoys to prevent boredom and frustration.
What is activity therapy?
Allows private health insurance companies to provide Medicare benefits?
What is Medicare Part C?
Specific services the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) offers.
What is benchmark care? Provides hospital care, lab studies, X-rays, well-child exams, immunizations, and dental care.
Facilities or residences for people who need some help with daily tasks.
What is assisted living?
Protein deposits, called Lewy bodies, develop in nerve cells in the brain regions.
What is Lewy body dementia? This is the second most common type of dementia which involves thinking, memory, and movement.
A type of psychotherapy that is often used to treat anxiety and depression which focuses on ways to modify negative thinking and behavior patterns.
What is cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)?