Past
The people which used to care for people in need.
What are friends, family, and the community?
The date when professionals met to share ideas and create a new vision for long-term care.
The care provided at nursing homes.
What is around-the-clock nursing care?
What are government agencies and independent non-profit organizations?
A unit of time used by the Medicare program to track how many days of skilled health care a patient has received and how many they have left.
What is the benefit period?
Community-supported supported facilities that provided shelters for those who could not support themselves.
What are poorhouses?
The group that created several models for long-term care.
The care provided at assisted-living facilities.
What is limited assistance with tasks?
The federal laws that apply to every nursing home in the US.
What is OBRA?
When somebody pays for care in a nursing home with their own money.
The condition of poorhouses.
The project that created warmth and growth for residents and staff.
What is the Green House project?
The type of care provided in CCRCs.
What is many different levels of care and multiple services on the same campus?
The agencies that set requirements for long term care facilities to follow.
What are OSHA, the FDA and CDC?
Financial strain for both the facility and the government.
What are the effects of Medicaid?
The act passed in 1935.
The number of residents living in a Green House Home.
The care provided for people who are chronically ill or disabled and need lots of assistance.
What is intermediate care?
The independent nonprofit organizations.
What is the Joint Commission, and CCAC?
Private insurance that can help pay for long-term care.
What is long-term care insurance?
What is 1987?
What are a large common living area, laundry area, open patio, and outdoor garden?
The care provided for people who have recently required soem type of acute care for an illness or injury.
What is skilled care?
The regulations that nursing homes in the US must follow.
What are federal, state, and local regulations?
The monthly cost to stay in a nursing home.
What is $6,000 a month?