Question: What is long term care?

Answer: given in long-term care facilities for people who need 24 hour skilled care

Question: List one fact about each of the following healthcare settings: home health care assisted living facilities, adult day services, acute care, subacute care, outpatient care, rehabilitation, and hospice care.

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Question: List five services commonly offered at LTFC.

Answer: 1. bathing

2. assistance with walking

3. eating

4. dressing

5. toileting

Question: Who makes up the majority of residents in long-term? men or women?

Answer: women

Question: What are two general categories of residences who stay in a care facility for less than six months?

Answer: 1. Residents who are admitted for terminal care who will probably die in the facility

2. residents admitted for rehabilitation or temporary illness

Question: List five common policies at LTCF.

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Question: List two ways that surveyors study how well staff care for residents in a facility.

Answer: 1. they focus on how residents nutritional, physical, social, emotional, and spiritual needs are being met.

2. they interview residents and their families and observe the staff’s interactions with residents and the care team

Question: Briefly describe what the Medicare and Medicaid program do.

Answer: They both pay for health care and health insurance for millions of Americans.

Question: Define culture change

Answer: a term given to the process of transferring services for elders so that they are based on the values and practices of the person receiving care.