Abbreviations
Funding
Terms
Miscellaneous
Senior Care Options
100

These are the six basic personal care activities: eating, toileting, dressing, bathing, transferring, and continence

What are Activities of Daily Living or ADLs

100

Type of Insurance Policy that can be used to pay for Assisted Living and/or home care

What is a Long Term Care Policy

100

This type of senior housing generally bridges the gap between living independently and living in a nursing home.

What is Assisted Living

100

At least, how many ADLs do you require help with before you can apply for VA benefits or medicaid

What is 2 or more ADLs

100

This senior living option provides daily transportation to the location and provides meals, activities and help with taking medications

What is Adult Day Care

200

Type of senior living called CCRC

What is Continuing Care Retirement Community

200

Majority of assisted living communities require that a resident pay privately for a certain number of months before applying for medicaid

What is a spend down period

200

Community that offers specialized programs for residents suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and/or other forms of memory loss.

What is Memory Care?

200

Adults who are caring for both children at home and elderly parents at the same time; might also be juggling work or career.

What is the Sandwich Generation

200

This option sends an CHHA or CNA to the senior's home

What is Home Care and Home Health Care

300

Range of activities that are more complex than those needed for the ADLs, i.e. using the telephone, preparing meals, maintaining the home, managing finances, shopping, and using transportation.

What are Instrumental Activities of Daily Living or IADLs

300

Veteran funding that can be used to pay for Assisted Living or Home Care

What is Veterans Aid & Attendance

300

These homes are smaller in size and usually accommodate between 2-8 residents but provide a watchful environment and personal services to adults who require varying degrees of supervision and protective care

What is a residential care home?

300

Residence for independent seniors with few medical problems who wish to reduce the responsibilities of maintaining a residence.



What is a CCRC?

300

State licensed facility that provides 24-hour skilled patient care and is considered to be one step below hospital acute care

What is a Skilled Nursing Facility or SNF?

400

An 'AL' is what type of senior living option

What is 'Assisted Living'

400

Type of funding when a senior sells their life insurance policy


What is a Life Settlement

400

When medical care cannot offer a cure, this option provides care, comfort and support for persons with life-limiting conditions and their families.

What is Hospice Care

400

This is the number of eligible years that Medicaid can do a 'look back'

What is '5'

400

The principle healthcare program of the federal government supposed to provide healthcare insurance for persons 65 and older

What is Medicare?

500

This type of insurance policy can pay for assisted living and/or home care

What is Long Term Care or LTC

500

Federal Aid that can pay for assisted living and home care

What is Medicaid

500

A community that offers several levels of assistance, including independent living,  assisted living and nursing home care so residents have the ability to “age in place.”

What is a CCRC or Continuing Care Retirement Community

500

Public assistance funded through the state to older persons with lower income who have minimal assets or who are considered “medically needy” because they are unable to pay for health care.

What is Medicaid

500

This facility provides family members a time of relief (respite) from the constant everyday care of an elderly person.

What is Adult Day Care