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Leisure - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Independent use of free time
Recreation - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Activity that refreshes the
body or mind - structured or organized
Continuum of Care - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Levels of care
beginning with care and support at home, care provided in the
community such as adult day centers and institutional care through
assisted living and skilled nursing facilities.
Chain of Command - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ A clear and distinct
line of authority among the positions in an organization.
Organizational Chart - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ A visual picture of
the organization that identifies lines of communication and authority.
Authoirty - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ The power and right to make
decisions.
,Accountability - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ To be responsible for
something, to have to answer to an authority.
Responsibility - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ A duty that is assigned to
an individual or a duty one accepts.
Departmentalization - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Basis for grouping
of positions into departments and departments into the organization.
Profession - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ An individual with
specialized skills and abilities working in his or her area of experience.
Professionalism - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ The qualities or traits
that mark a person working in a particular profession.
Certification - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ A credential indicating
specific training in a career specialty. Certification of choice for activity
professionals is through NCCAP which is recognized in many states and
Federal regulations.
Professional Organizations - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Nonprofit
organization that works to improve the image, working conditions, and
skill levels of people in particular occupations.
,Advocacy - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ To act, speak, or write in
support of an issue.
Protesting - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ To object, complain or
disagree with something.
Activism - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ The practice of pursuing
political or other goals through vigorous action, often including protests
and demonstrations.
Regulatory Requirements - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ A rule or
directive made and maintained by an authority. State regulations are in
place for nursing homes, medical day care centers and assisted living.
Federal regulations are in place for nursing homes only.
Interpretive Guidelines - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Publication to
help nursing facilities follows the law and aid surveyors to enforce the
law.
Survey Process - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Methodology that the
state/federal surveyors practice when inspecting care facilities.
Deficiency - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ In LTC, this is something the
state surveyors find during a survey. It means the facility has not met the
state or federal standards of care.
, Plan of Correction - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ This is written by a
care facility if a deficiency is issued. It describes how the care facility
will fix the deficiency.
CMS - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Center for Medicare and Medicaid
Services. Federal agency overseeing skilled nursing facilities.
Life Course Perspective - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ How one
experiences a timetable of life events, how society looks upon individual
life choices.
Life Span - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ The greatest number of years a
person can live.
Theories on Aging - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Various theories as to
why we age - two categories - genetic and wear and tear theories.
Abraham Maslow - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ A psychologist who
proposed the hierarchy of needs, with self-actualization as the ultimate
psychological need. Humans have a hierarchy of needs ranging from
lower-level needs for survival and safety to higher-level needs for
intellectual achievement and finally self-actualization.