Home ownership or rental oppotunities for adults 55 years of age and older, or sometimes 62 years and older.
What is Age-restricted housing?
100
Congregate Housing usually provides the same basic services as most senior retirement complexes. Beyond these basic services, congregate housing may have these other options
What is laundry service, transportation (shopping and doctors' appointments), health monitoring, and help with taking medications.
100
CCRC's are the only senior housing communities that are accreditated. This is the name of the accreditating body.
What is Continuing Care Accreditation Commission (CCAC)?
100
Seniors want this to not only decline when they move into senior housing, but to improve
What is Quality of Life?
100
Term to describe people born between 1946-1964
What is Baby-Boomers?
200
Means of borrowing money from the amount the home is worth beyond any mortgage debt
What is Reverse mortgage?
200
This type of housing is for individuals who likely moved to those units to preserve their assets by selling their homes that they may no longer need and cannot care for.
What is Senior Apartments?
200
Most facilities have a rental contract or agreement but many do not require long-term financial commitment
What is Congregate Housing?
200
Today's seniors have a desire for this to meet their needs and also are attractive, desirbale places to live.
What is More Options?
200
People who have to care for both their parents and their children are called this
What is the "Sandwich generation"?
300
Type of collabortive housing in which residents participate in the design and operation of their own neighborhoods
What is Cohousing?
300
Three types of living arrangements offered by Independent Living
What is studio, 1-2-3 bedroom aparments, cottages,townhouses, duplexes, cluster homes, and single family homes?
300
Staffing of most senior housing facilities models this industry
What is hospitality?
300
Managers of senior housing have no requirement that they be licensed or otherwise credentialed. (True or False)
What is TRUE?
300
The largest single source of financing for most nursing facilities today is this
What is Medicaid?
400
A community which provides continuum of care, offering several level of assistance, usually including independent living, assisted living and nursing home care commonly all on one campus or site
What is Continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC)?
400
Seniors will typically enter into a contract here while they are healthy and active, knowing they will be able to stay in the same community and receive nursing care should this become necessary
What is CCRC's?
400
The most expensive long-term care soultion available to seniors.
What is CCRC?
400
This has happened because of the demand for senior housing is at a record high
What is High Occupancy Rates?
400
Care planning begins with this
What is a detailed assesment?
500
Reidential living setting that may or may not provide hospitality or supportive services. In this living arrangement, the senior requires minimal or no extra assistance, and leads an independent lifestyle filled with recreational, educational and social actitivies amongst other seniors.
What is Independent Living?
500
Largely widowed, white females in their mid-80s. Most have annual household incomes ranging from $25,000 to $75,000 and a total net worth ranging from $100,000 to $500,000
What is Independent Living?
500
This senior housing varies from expensive high-end communities to government-subsidized senior villages
What is Age-Restricted Housing?
500
Nursing facilities and CCRC's have licensing requirements (True or False)
What is TRUE?
500
The largest source of reimbursement for subacute care is this