providers - Answers people or organizations that provide health care, including doctors, nurses, clinics,
and agencies.
facilities - Answers in medicine, places where health care is delivered or administered, including
hospitals, long-term care facilities, and treatment centers.
payers - Answers people or organizations paying for healthcare services.
long-term care (LTC) - Answers care given in long-term care facilities (LTCF) for people who need 24-
hour skilled care.
skilled care - Answers medically-necessary care given by a skilled nurse or therapist.
length of stay - Answers the number of days a person stays in a healthcare facility.
terminal illness - Answers a disease or condition that will eventually cause death.
chronic illness - Answers a disease or condition that is long-term or long-lasting and requires
management of symptoms.
Home health care - Answers care that takes place in a person's home.
Diagnoses - Answers physicians' determinations of an illness.
Assisted Living - Answers residences for people who do not need skilled, 24-hour care, but do require
some help with daily care.
dementia - Answers the serious loss of mental abilities, such as thinking, remembering, reasoning, and
communicating.
Adult day service - Answers care for people who need some assistance or supervision during certain
hours, but who do not live in the facility where care is given.
acute care - Answers 24-hour skilled care for short-term illnesses or injuries; generally given in hospitals
and ambulatory surgical centers.
subacute care - Answers care given in a hospital or in a long-term care facility for people who need less
care than for an acute illness, but more care than for a chronic illness.
Outpatient care - Answers care given for less than 24 hours for people who have had treatments or
surgery and need short-term skilled care.
rehabilitation - Answers care that is given by specialists to help restore or improve function after an
illness or injury.
hospice care - Answers holistic, compassionate care given to dying people and their families.
, health maintenance organizations (HMOs) - Answers a method of health insurance in which a person
has to use a particular doctor or group of doctors except in case of emergency.
preferred provider organizations (PPOs) - Answers a network of providers that contract to provide
health services to a group of people.
managed care - Answers a system or strategy of managing health care in a way that controls costs.
The following major changes have a serious impact on how health care is provided: - Answers -Increased
use of expensive technology
-Rising costs of health care
-New ways to control costs of care
activities of daily living (ADLs) - Answers daily personal care tasks, such as bathing; caring for skin, nail,
hair, and teeth; dressing; toileting; eating and drinking; walking; and transferring.
catheter - Answers a thin tube inserted into the body to drain fluids or inject fluids.
89% - Answers over 65
54% - Answers over 85
11% - Answers younger than 65
70% - Answers females
More than 90% - Answers white and non-Hispanic
About 1/3 come from? - Answers private residence
over 50% come from - Answers a hospital
Why is important for an NA to know what kinds of residents he will likely be caring for? - Answers
Residents with different lengths of stay may have different care needs.
Residents with a length of stay of six months or more - Answers -Make up over 2/3 of residents
-Require 24-hour care
-Did not have caregivers able to give enough care at home
Residents with a length of stay of less than six months - Answers -May be admitted for terminal care
(will die in the facility)
-May be admitted for rehabilitation or temporary illness (will recover and return to the community)