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Long Term Care Quiz with verified correct answers
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- FLORIDA ASSISTED LIVING
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Long Term Care Quiz with verified correct answers
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Long Term Care Quiz with verifiedcorrect answers
What is Long Term Care? - answer services and supports necessary to meet health or personal
care needs over an extended period of time
What are Long Term Care Facilities? - answer institutions that provide healthcare to people who
are unable to manage independently in the community, care may represent custodial/chronic
care management or short-term rehabilitative services
What are the # of Long Term Care Agencies in the US? (2012) - answer 4800= Adult Day Services
Centers
12200 = Home Health Agencies
3700= Hospices
15700= Nursing Homes
22200= Residential Care Communities
What are Nursing Homes? - answer Freestanding Facility or Continuing Care Retirement
Community (CCRC) or licensed and regularly inspected by the Agency for Health Care
Administration (AHCA)
What are some myths about Nursing Homes? - answer -Residents living there are sick and
dying.
-Nursing homes are for people with memory problems.
-Nursing homes smell and are dirty.
-Residents are lonely.
How are Nursing Homes certified? - answer -Onsite evaluations are conducted by AHCA state
survey agencies. The evaluations occur at least once during a 15-month period, or as a result of
a complaint being investigated.
, -The surveys generally focus on residents' rights, quality of care, quality of life, and the services
provided to residents. Surveyors also conduct more targeted surveys, or complaint
investigations, in response to complaints against nursing homes.
What is CCRC? - answer Continuing Care Retirement Community; allows residents to move from
one level of care to another, as needed, and can include independent living, an assisted living
facility, and/or a nursing home. Additionally, a hospital can have a skilled nursing unit which
includes designated beds within the hospital that serve patients who need short-term care and
rehabilitation services.
What are the legal and regulatory issues? - answer -(1987) Congress passed the Nursing Home
Reform Law as part of the Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1987 (OBRA 87)
-The basic objective of the Nursing Home Reform Act is to ensure that residents of nursing
homes receive quality care
-The Nursing Home Reform Act requires the provision of certain services to each resident and
establishes a Residents' Bill of Rights
What are the Residents' Rights? - answer -Right to be treated with dignity and respect
-Right to be informed in writing about services and fees before you enter the nursing home
-Right to manage your own money or to choose someone else you trust to do this for you
-Right to privacy, and to keep and use your personal belongings and property as long as it
doesn't interfere with the rights, health, or safety of others
-Right to be informed about your medical condition, medications, and to see your own doctor.
You also have the right to refuse medications and treatments
-Right to have a choice over your own schedule, your activities and other preferences that are
important to you
-Right to an environment more like a home that maximizes your comfort and provides you with
assistance to be as independent as possible
What is the Nursing Home Reform Act? - answer (1987) specifies what services nursing homes
must give residents and establishes standards for these services; required services include=
periodic assessments for each resident, a comprehensive care plan for each resident, nursing
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