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LTC (Long-term Care) |
An umbrella used to describe a wide variety of services |
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Length for LTC |
Providing care services ro infividuals for more than 90 days. |
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Who needs long-term care? |
Anyone, child or adult, who have a chronic condition requiring assistance for more than 90 days |
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LTC length range: |
LTC assistance may range from 90 - 100 days |
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Define: Chronic Condition |
An illness or injury lasting more than 90 days; a non-acute illness such as asthma |
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What is ADLs? |
Activities of daily living |
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Define ADLs: |
Basic activities such as mobility, eating, toileting, dressing, and bathing. |
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What is IADLs |
Instrumental activities of daily living |
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Define IADLs |
Activities like managing money, telephoning, personal shopping, using transportation, housekeeping, and managing medications. |
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Define Continuum of Care: |
The philosophy that the Healthcare to facilitate an individual's care from complete Independence to dependence |
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Who uses LTC? |
People of all ages uses LTC for many reasons. |
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Define parenteral nutrition: |
Any method of delivering nutrition that is not by mouth, such as an intravenous line by direct into the stomach or intestine. |
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Define enteral nutrition: |
Nutrition delivered by a tube to the intestines. example: nasogastric feedinv tube |
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Define nursing home: |
An old-fashioned word designating a chronic Care Facility |
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Proprietary |
Owned by an individual or group of individuals a for-profit arrangement |
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What is ALFs? |
Assisted living facilities or residential care communities |
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Define assisted living facilities or residential care communities (ALFs) |
Homes or apartment like living spaces that allow for independent activities such as cooking in bathing and also provide care such as medication or treatment delivery; in the whole model of quality of living arrangement |
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Define Aging in place |
Is the law of the seed that allow the Aging person or couple to stay in their living situations while growing older with increasing levels of personal in medical assistant as needed. These adults are living communities where the ranch is individual homes Skilled Nursing Facility in one complex. |
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Define sandwich generation |
The generation that is currently working and taking care of children and parents, thus sandwiched between two dependent age groups. |
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Define medical power of attorney |
A person appointed by another who give consent to Medical Care or can withhold Medical Care. It is a legal document that empowers the surrogate decision-maker in all Healthcare decisions if patient is unable to make decisions. |
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What is spend down? |
Redistribution a says that the individual will be Medicaid eligible. |
