2026 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔assisted living - ✔✔residences for people who do not need skilled, 24 hour are, but
do require some help with daily care.
✔✔adult day services - ✔✔care for people who need some help during certain hours,
but who do not live in the facility where care is given.
✔✔acute care - ✔✔24 hour skilled care for short-term illnesses or injuries; generally
given in hospital and ambulatory surgical centers
✔✔subacute care - ✔✔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 - ✔✔care given for less than 24 hours for people who have had
treatment or surgery and need short term skilled care
✔✔rehabilitation - ✔✔care that is given by specialists to help restore or improve function
after an illness or injury
✔✔hospice care - ✔✔holistic, compassionate care given to dying people and their
families
✔✔activities of daily living - ✔✔daily personal care tasks such as bathing, caring for
skin, nails, hair, and teeth, dressing, toileting, eating and drinking; walking; and
transferring.
✔✔adl - ✔✔activities of daily living
✔✔culture change - ✔✔a term given to the process of transforming services for elders
so that they are based on the values and practices of the person receiving care; core
values include choice, dignity, respect, self-determination, and purposeful living.