CAREGIVING SAFETY AND HYGIENE
PROCEDURES TRAINING TEST PAPER FULL
CORRECT RESPONSES GUIDE
●● what are the two types of social support?
Answer: informal and formal
●● what is formal support?
Answer: help given by professional caregivers such as doctors, nurses
and social workers as well as paid homemakers and other healthcare
services
●● how do people pay for formal support?
Answer: own resources or through taxes
●● who usually uses more formal care?
Answer: people who need help with daily chores or healthcare use only
formal care
●● what kind of support is used for everyday helo?
Answer: informal
,●● what is informal support?
Answer: the unpaid help given by friends, neighbours and family
members
includes everyday help such as rides to medical appointments or
shopping centre, help with housecleaning, or just a visit from a
neighbour
can also help cope with personal crisis, adjust to change in health or
locate a formal service
●● who usually provides the most informal support to seniors?
Answer: spouses
followed by children
●● what is the gender influence in caregiving and receiving care?
Answer: women are more likely to provide the care
older women are more likely to receive care from children
●● what is the life course capital or social capital?
Answer: the amount of resources available to a person, including social
support
changes over time
●● what do current social policies favour in caregiving for older adults?
,Answer: a mix of informal and formal
●● what happens when formal and informal care work well together?
Answer: trusting relationship between paid and unpaid carers
●● when do people turn to the formal system?
Answer: when the informal system no longer meets their needs
●● how does formal care use change with increasing age?
Answer: increase
●● which system provides majority of the care?
Answer: informal
●● how does gender affect emotional support for seniors?
Answer: older women receive more than older men
have larger support networks
●● what factors determine the type and amount of care older adults
receive?
Answer: size, proximity, composition, by gender, relationship, age
, ●● what determines whether seniors receive formal, informal or no
care?
Answer: size, quality and proximity of social networks
●● which age groups have the highest proportion of caregivers?
Answer: middle aged adults
●● how does gender influence caregiving across age groups?
Answer: women are more likely than men to provide care at nearly
every age below 75, then it's men
●● what explains the increase in formal care use with age?
Answer: the loss or reduction of informal supports contributes to the
higher reliance on formal care
●● what are the 4 models of informal support?
Answer: task specificity
hierarchical compensatory
functional specificity of relationships
convoy
●● what is the task specificity model?
Answer: informal
PROCEDURES TRAINING TEST PAPER FULL
CORRECT RESPONSES GUIDE
●● what are the two types of social support?
Answer: informal and formal
●● what is formal support?
Answer: help given by professional caregivers such as doctors, nurses
and social workers as well as paid homemakers and other healthcare
services
●● how do people pay for formal support?
Answer: own resources or through taxes
●● who usually uses more formal care?
Answer: people who need help with daily chores or healthcare use only
formal care
●● what kind of support is used for everyday helo?
Answer: informal
,●● what is informal support?
Answer: the unpaid help given by friends, neighbours and family
members
includes everyday help such as rides to medical appointments or
shopping centre, help with housecleaning, or just a visit from a
neighbour
can also help cope with personal crisis, adjust to change in health or
locate a formal service
●● who usually provides the most informal support to seniors?
Answer: spouses
followed by children
●● what is the gender influence in caregiving and receiving care?
Answer: women are more likely to provide the care
older women are more likely to receive care from children
●● what is the life course capital or social capital?
Answer: the amount of resources available to a person, including social
support
changes over time
●● what do current social policies favour in caregiving for older adults?
,Answer: a mix of informal and formal
●● what happens when formal and informal care work well together?
Answer: trusting relationship between paid and unpaid carers
●● when do people turn to the formal system?
Answer: when the informal system no longer meets their needs
●● how does formal care use change with increasing age?
Answer: increase
●● which system provides majority of the care?
Answer: informal
●● how does gender affect emotional support for seniors?
Answer: older women receive more than older men
have larger support networks
●● what factors determine the type and amount of care older adults
receive?
Answer: size, proximity, composition, by gender, relationship, age
, ●● what determines whether seniors receive formal, informal or no
care?
Answer: size, quality and proximity of social networks
●● which age groups have the highest proportion of caregivers?
Answer: middle aged adults
●● how does gender influence caregiving across age groups?
Answer: women are more likely than men to provide care at nearly
every age below 75, then it's men
●● what explains the increase in formal care use with age?
Answer: the loss or reduction of informal supports contributes to the
higher reliance on formal care
●● what are the 4 models of informal support?
Answer: task specificity
hierarchical compensatory
functional specificity of relationships
convoy
●● what is the task specificity model?
Answer: informal
