HCAD 222 FINAL EXAM |2025 Update Comprehensive
Frequently Tested Questions And Verified Answers
|100% Accurate Answers | Already Graded A+
Longevity challenges - (ANSWER)1. Coping with and aging body
2. Maintaining a valued place
3. Individuals grow older in the wider contest of an entire society that is
undergoing a transition to population aging
Questions about modern societies values toward old age
Are the old less valued than the young?
Where will we get resources to help the elderly?
Could medical breakthroughs have unforeseen consequences for society, either
for good or ill?
Challenges people face as they grow older - (ANSWER)Questions about modern
societies values toward old age
Are the old less valued than the young?
Where will we get resources to help the elderly?
Could medical breakthroughs have unforeseen consequences for society, either
for good or ill?
"Reimbursement Driven" - (ANSWER)Term meaning that the amount and type of
care received by a long-term care consumer is dependent on that individuals
reimbursement coverage
,Post Acute Care - (ANSWER)Include long-term care hospitals, inpatient rehab
facilities, skilled nursing facilities and home health agencies
DRG's/"Quicker & sicker discharges" - (ANSWER)DRG-Statistical System of
classifying any inpatient stay into groups for the purposes of payment.
ADL's - (ANSWER)Activities of daily living
Goals of LTC (vs. acute) - (ANSWER)-Improve/ slow deterioration
-Meet needs for care and assistance
-Enhance social and psychological well-being
-Maximize independence
-Integrated setting
-Promote a meaningful life
LTC Continuum - (ANSWER)Long term care is encompasses a continuum of
services
Nursing Homes - (ANSWER)Touchstone for LTC
-Misnomer
Dula constituencies
-PAC
-LTC
,Average age: 79
Activity levels are higher than ever before assisted living
Assisted Living - (ANSWER)-Typical demographic: 87 year old white female
-Residential environment that enhances functioning and is homelike
1. residential environment: private space and public space
2. Philosophy of consumer control over space, care and lifestyle
3. Service capability
-Routine services
-Specialized services
-Term has many meanings
-Housing with (separate)
services
-Congregate care with single staff
-Need for uniform classification system to allow consumers to make informed
comparisons
Home and Community Based Services (HCBS) - (ANSWER)Rehabilitation/Skilled
Care
Home health
Homemaking, personal care, & attendant services
Emergency systems
, Home delivered meals
Home Modification
Transportation
Day programs
Respite care
Independent senior housing
Case management
Family support services
Equipment
Hospice
*Skilled Nursing Facilities/Nursing Homes
*Residential Care/Assisted Living
*Home & community based services
NH: PAC vs. LT Care recipients - (ANSWER)Medicare (ACUTE,PAC)
Medicaid (acute,pac,LTC)
Supplemental Insurance (acute,pac)
Long-term care insurance (pac,ltc)
Out-of-pocket/Private pat (acute,pac,LTC)
Unpaid care-Family & Friends (LTC)
Medicare-What/who for, benefits, eligibility - (ANSWER)-People 65+
Frequently Tested Questions And Verified Answers
|100% Accurate Answers | Already Graded A+
Longevity challenges - (ANSWER)1. Coping with and aging body
2. Maintaining a valued place
3. Individuals grow older in the wider contest of an entire society that is
undergoing a transition to population aging
Questions about modern societies values toward old age
Are the old less valued than the young?
Where will we get resources to help the elderly?
Could medical breakthroughs have unforeseen consequences for society, either
for good or ill?
Challenges people face as they grow older - (ANSWER)Questions about modern
societies values toward old age
Are the old less valued than the young?
Where will we get resources to help the elderly?
Could medical breakthroughs have unforeseen consequences for society, either
for good or ill?
"Reimbursement Driven" - (ANSWER)Term meaning that the amount and type of
care received by a long-term care consumer is dependent on that individuals
reimbursement coverage
,Post Acute Care - (ANSWER)Include long-term care hospitals, inpatient rehab
facilities, skilled nursing facilities and home health agencies
DRG's/"Quicker & sicker discharges" - (ANSWER)DRG-Statistical System of
classifying any inpatient stay into groups for the purposes of payment.
ADL's - (ANSWER)Activities of daily living
Goals of LTC (vs. acute) - (ANSWER)-Improve/ slow deterioration
-Meet needs for care and assistance
-Enhance social and psychological well-being
-Maximize independence
-Integrated setting
-Promote a meaningful life
LTC Continuum - (ANSWER)Long term care is encompasses a continuum of
services
Nursing Homes - (ANSWER)Touchstone for LTC
-Misnomer
Dula constituencies
-PAC
-LTC
,Average age: 79
Activity levels are higher than ever before assisted living
Assisted Living - (ANSWER)-Typical demographic: 87 year old white female
-Residential environment that enhances functioning and is homelike
1. residential environment: private space and public space
2. Philosophy of consumer control over space, care and lifestyle
3. Service capability
-Routine services
-Specialized services
-Term has many meanings
-Housing with (separate)
services
-Congregate care with single staff
-Need for uniform classification system to allow consumers to make informed
comparisons
Home and Community Based Services (HCBS) - (ANSWER)Rehabilitation/Skilled
Care
Home health
Homemaking, personal care, & attendant services
Emergency systems
, Home delivered meals
Home Modification
Transportation
Day programs
Respite care
Independent senior housing
Case management
Family support services
Equipment
Hospice
*Skilled Nursing Facilities/Nursing Homes
*Residential Care/Assisted Living
*Home & community based services
NH: PAC vs. LT Care recipients - (ANSWER)Medicare (ACUTE,PAC)
Medicaid (acute,pac,LTC)
Supplemental Insurance (acute,pac)
Long-term care insurance (pac,ltc)
Out-of-pocket/Private pat (acute,pac,LTC)
Unpaid care-Family & Friends (LTC)
Medicare-What/who for, benefits, eligibility - (ANSWER)-People 65+
