True or False: An ideal long-term care system would provide all of the services consumers need or want
True
100
Baby boomers is a term used to describe people born:
What is between the years of 1946-1964?
100
Those activities that impact a person's functional ability or disability; including bathing, transferring, toileting, eating, and communicating.
What are Activities of Daily Living?
100
Services providing temporary relief for informal caregivers.
What is Respite care ?
200
The ACA covers children up to this age
What is 26?
200
The term “consumer-driven” means that long-term care consumers are:
Allowed to make decisions related to their care and financing as much as possible
200
“Multilevel facilities” refers to facilities that:
What are facilities that provide multiple levels of care.
200
The government agency overseeing operation of the Medicare and Medicaid programs - formerly the Health Care Financing Administration.
What is Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)?
200
Also known as the 1987 Nursing Home Reform Act, it established stringent new rules for nursing facilities.
What is Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (OBRA) ?
300
Under the ACA, this determines the reimbursement delivered to a particular healthcare provider based on outcomes.
What is pay-for-performance?
300
People who have to care for both their parents and their children are called:
Who are the "sandwich generation"?
300
Name 1 weakness of the LTC system
-It is fragmented and uncoordinated.
-Services are distributed inequitably.
-There are multiple entry points into the system.
300
Health services provided in the consumer’s home by a nurse, occupational, speech or physical therapist, social worker, or home health aide.
What is home healthcare?
300
Term covering a variety of health care systems or organizations (e.g., HMOs, PPOs) that combine the provision of care with payment for that care.
What is managed care?
400
This is the part of the ACA that delivers 1 payment for an episode of care
What is bundling?
400
Name 2 components of accessibility of long-term care services?
financial eligibility
location of services
complexity of the consumer’s care needs
400
Name 2 “informal caregivers?”
Who are family and friends, religious organizations and community groups?
400
Extended care of people with chronic disabling conditions.
What is long-term care?
400
An assessment that is comprehensive and detailed, addressing all of the needs of the individual, with the same assessment tool used for all consumers.
What is uniform assessment ?
500
As part of ACA, this act was suspended in 2011 and was designed to provide private financial base for disability coverage and access to community resources.
What is the CLASS Act?
500
True or False: “Least restrictive environment” means not using physical or chemical restraints.
False
500
True or False: Although we usually think of long-term care as being for the elderly, nearly half of the people using long-term care are non-elderly.
True
500
Long-term care facilities that offer room, board, nursing care and certain other therapies.
What are nursing facilities?
500
A disease generally affecting elderly and middle-aged people, causing loss of memory and other cognitive function.