Long-Term Care
This type of facility is the primary residence of older adults who require skilled nursing and protective care.
What is a nursing home?
This activity of daily living for which older adults are most likely to require assistance?
Elizabeth Kübler-Ross created a five stage model for people who are doing this.
What is dying?
This is the term for grieving the loss of a valued person.
What is bereavement?
When people are 80 years or older and have episodic memory that is at least as good as middle-aged adults, they are called this.
What are superagers?
These housing units provide an alternative to nursing homes for older adults who do not require skilled nursing care. They provide meals, housekeeping, and assistance with personal care (grooming and bathing).
What is a residential care home?
The Medicare part provides that coverage for prescription drugs.
What is Medicare Part D?
In this dying trajectory, people function at a high level and then proceed immediately to death.
What is sudden death?
This model of grief states that grief does not shrink but that our lives grow around grief.
What is Tonkin's Model?
This organization has called for community efforts to support active and healthy aging.
This is a day service for older adults who require psychiatric care.
What is geriatric partial hospitalization?
The type of insurance that most commonly pays for nursing home stays.
This is the leading cause of death for people aged 45-64.
What is cancer?
The term for how societies handle death. It can be determined by examining philosophy of death, funeral rituals, treatment of the dying, etc.
What is death ethos?
When creativity was studied in older adults, strong evidence of old age style was found only in this artistic medium.
What is visual art?
What is painting?
What is sculpting?A mother-in-law suite is an example of this type of housing for older adults.
What is an accessory dwelling unit?
This clause in Medicaid coverage requires residents to empty their savings to a certain level before they receive coverage.
What is the spend down clause?
These are the two leading causes of death for people aged 65 and older.
What are heart disease and cancer?
Who is Worden or J. William Worden?
The Rowe and Kahn Model of Successful Aging has three components: being free from disease, high in physical and cognitive capacity, and this.
What is actively engaged in life?
This type of housing community provides different levels of care adjusted to the needs of the residents. It ranges from independent living to nursing home care.
What is a continuing care retirement community?
This law, passed in 1987, sought to improve nursing homes by adding many requirements such as staff licensure, adequate staffing levels, 24-hour nursing services, and non-discrimination policies.
What is the Nursing Home Reform Act?
This phenomenon is the term for unexpected mortality data based on ethnicity.
What is the Hispanic mortality paradox?
Name three symptoms of prolonged grief disorder.
What are:
In addition, the person’s bereavement lasts longer than might be expected based on social, cultural, or religious norms.
The paradox of well-being says that old adults have this despite objective circumstances.
What is high(er) subjective well-being?