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Models of care & Transition
Healthcare Financing
End of Life
Role Transitions, Relationships, and Caregiver Issues
Mystery Grab Bag
100
This is a specialized unit of care delivery for hospitalized older adults, focusing on the needs of older patients.
What is an Acute Care for the Elderly (ACE) unit?
100
Physician appointments is covered by this type of Medicare.
What is Medicare Part B?
100
This is also known as a living will and names someone to make decisions for another person if that person becomes incapacitated.
What is an advance directive?
100
This is a family member who provides occasional assistance with care for a dependent person.
What is an informal caregiver?
100
These are external to the person, contribute to tissue degradation, and include moisture from incontinence, pressure, friction, and shear.
What are extrinsic risk factors for pressure ulcer development?
200
Functional decline, hospital complications, adverse medical events, increased morbidity, and decreased post hospital care are important contributors to this.
What are factors that impact sub-optimal care transitions among older adults?
200
Prescription drugs are covered by this type of Medicare.
What is Medicare Part D?
200
These are mandated by law to tell patients about the Patient Self-Determination Act and offer an Advance Directive.
What are all agencies receiving Medicare and Medicaid funds, such as hospitals and HMOs, mandated to do regarding end of life issues?
200
These are individuals who are paid to provide care to dependent older adults.
What is a formal caregiver?
200
This is the acute care approach that provides nurse, physician, therapists, and medical equipment in the older adult's primary private dwelling.
What is the Hospital-at-Home care model?
300
These include delayed diagnosis, duplication of services, dissatisfaction with care, clinical deterioration, and high costs.
What are outcomes of poor care transitions?
300
Older adults 65+, individuals with disability, end stage renal disease patients, and people with Lou Gehrig's disease are eligible for this.
What is Medicare?
300
This covers hospice care but infrequently palliative care.
What is Medicare?
300
These include: Personal growth and satisfaction Growing closer to dependent Gaining a new sense of appreciation towards the other person and life
What are positive consequences associated with caregiving?
300
40% of older adults take at least this number of medications.
What is 5 or more medications?
400
This is a timely transfer of information to the next set of providers that includes comprehensive medical review and also empowers older adults to assert personal preference.
What is optimal transitional care?
400
This is financed via general federal revenues and beneficiary premiums.
What is Medicare Part B?
400
Freedom from suffering, achieving life closure, and receiving care consistent with one's belief, wishes, and values are all elements of this.
What is a good death?
400
This tool measures an individual's perceived readiness for the caregiving role.
What is the Preparedness for Caregiving scale?
400
This concept describing the process following the death of a spouse includes five stages: reactionary, withdrawal, recuperation, exploration, and integration.
What are Patterns of Adjustment to Widowhood?
500
This is less expensive than skilled nursing home care and more home like.
What is assisted living?
500
Beneficiaries voluntarily enroll in Medicare Advantage (MA) plans during an annual open period and then are locked for the following year in this plan.
What is Medicare Part C?
500
This framework includes physical, psychological, social, and spiritual well-being.
What is the quality of life model?
500
This is the primary caregiver.
What is the role of the person that provides most of the day-to-day care?
500
70% or more of these have not been tested for HIV within the past year.
What are AT-RISK older adults? (At-risk = 1. sexually active within the past year, AND 2. single, OR more than one recent sexual partner, OR current relationship less than one year long, OR most recent partner was not a primary relationship partner)