NACCM ACTUAL STUDY GUIDE ANSWERS AND
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔Depression: depressed mood or loss of pleasure or interest in activities - ✔✔-Sx:
persistent sad, anxious or empty mood
-Treatment: talk therapy and meds
✔✔Hydration and nutrition needs for OA: - ✔✔-Hydration: 6-8 cups of fluid
-Nutrition: B12 absorption decreases with age, increase protein and fortified foods to
help with vitamin b12. Seafood/dairy/beans to maintain muscle mass
✔✔Formal Support systems - ✔✔Social, health, financial and other services offered by
public or private agencies
✔✔Informal support systems - ✔✔unpaid care and support by family/friends/neighbors
✔✔FPoA - ✔✔Makes financial decisions when unable to make your own
✔✔Living will - ✔✔Legal document that tells doctors how you want to be treated if you
cannot make your own decisions about emergency treatment
-What common medical treatments you want, which treatments to avoid and under
which conditions each of your choices applies
-Must have legal capacity to execute
✔✔Health care surrogate - ✔✔Designated person to make healthcare decisions when
you are unable to make your own
✔✔When is a POA revoked? - ✔✔When principal dies, when principal revokes
document, adjudicated as incapacitated
✔✔Guardianship - ✔✔Clerk can order MDE (Multidisciplinary Evaluation) - includes
medical, psych, social work, education, vocational, rehabilitation and occupational
therapy needs of the respondent
, ✔✔Social Determinants of Health - ✔✔-Economic Stability
-Education access and quality Healthcare access and quality
-Neighborhood and built environment
-Social and community context
✔✔Medicare details - ✔✔-65+ or disabled by SS standards and waiting period for 2
years OR end stage renal disease OR ALS
-PART A: inpatient care in hospitals
Hospice, home health
-PART B: Outpatient care- client pays 20%
-PART C: HMO for additional services
-DME: client pays 20% of Medicare approved amount and deductible applies
✔✔Veterans Services - ✔✔Pension is a benefit paid to war-time veterans age 65+with
limited or no income OR totally and permanently disabled OR patient in SNF OR SSDI
OR SSI
✔✔Veterans Financial Benefits - ✔✔Compensation paid to those who have sustained
service-related disability, injury or illness
-Ranked 10%-100%
-Number of benefits are dependent on disability determination.
-Compensation may continue to survivors after death id COD is due to injury or
disability
✔✔Veterans Services Aid and Attendance Benefits - ✔✔-Paid in addition to pension
-Veteran requires aid of another person with ADLS
-Benefit awarded if applicants medical ans care expenses exceed gross income
-Has income and asset guidelines
✔✔SSDI - ✔✔-Not means tested
-Federal program that gives cash benefit to people with long-term disabilities who
qualify because they used to work or had family members who worked.
-Cannot work, cannot adjust to other work because of medical condition
-Disability has lasted or is expected to last for at least one year or to result in death
-Monthly financial assistance (determined on your avg lifetime earnings) begin the first
day of the 6th month of disability
-Medicare benefits provided after the person receives disability benefits for 2 years
-Cancer, early onset dementia, ALS
✔✔Social security - ✔✔-Entitlement program, if you paid in you're entitled to benefits
based on work history
-62 is earliest age of retirement not on disability
✔✔Supplemental Security Insurance - ✔✔-Means tested -- meaning income &
resources must be below a certain level to qualify.
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔Depression: depressed mood or loss of pleasure or interest in activities - ✔✔-Sx:
persistent sad, anxious or empty mood
-Treatment: talk therapy and meds
✔✔Hydration and nutrition needs for OA: - ✔✔-Hydration: 6-8 cups of fluid
-Nutrition: B12 absorption decreases with age, increase protein and fortified foods to
help with vitamin b12. Seafood/dairy/beans to maintain muscle mass
✔✔Formal Support systems - ✔✔Social, health, financial and other services offered by
public or private agencies
✔✔Informal support systems - ✔✔unpaid care and support by family/friends/neighbors
✔✔FPoA - ✔✔Makes financial decisions when unable to make your own
✔✔Living will - ✔✔Legal document that tells doctors how you want to be treated if you
cannot make your own decisions about emergency treatment
-What common medical treatments you want, which treatments to avoid and under
which conditions each of your choices applies
-Must have legal capacity to execute
✔✔Health care surrogate - ✔✔Designated person to make healthcare decisions when
you are unable to make your own
✔✔When is a POA revoked? - ✔✔When principal dies, when principal revokes
document, adjudicated as incapacitated
✔✔Guardianship - ✔✔Clerk can order MDE (Multidisciplinary Evaluation) - includes
medical, psych, social work, education, vocational, rehabilitation and occupational
therapy needs of the respondent
, ✔✔Social Determinants of Health - ✔✔-Economic Stability
-Education access and quality Healthcare access and quality
-Neighborhood and built environment
-Social and community context
✔✔Medicare details - ✔✔-65+ or disabled by SS standards and waiting period for 2
years OR end stage renal disease OR ALS
-PART A: inpatient care in hospitals
Hospice, home health
-PART B: Outpatient care- client pays 20%
-PART C: HMO for additional services
-DME: client pays 20% of Medicare approved amount and deductible applies
✔✔Veterans Services - ✔✔Pension is a benefit paid to war-time veterans age 65+with
limited or no income OR totally and permanently disabled OR patient in SNF OR SSDI
OR SSI
✔✔Veterans Financial Benefits - ✔✔Compensation paid to those who have sustained
service-related disability, injury or illness
-Ranked 10%-100%
-Number of benefits are dependent on disability determination.
-Compensation may continue to survivors after death id COD is due to injury or
disability
✔✔Veterans Services Aid and Attendance Benefits - ✔✔-Paid in addition to pension
-Veteran requires aid of another person with ADLS
-Benefit awarded if applicants medical ans care expenses exceed gross income
-Has income and asset guidelines
✔✔SSDI - ✔✔-Not means tested
-Federal program that gives cash benefit to people with long-term disabilities who
qualify because they used to work or had family members who worked.
-Cannot work, cannot adjust to other work because of medical condition
-Disability has lasted or is expected to last for at least one year or to result in death
-Monthly financial assistance (determined on your avg lifetime earnings) begin the first
day of the 6th month of disability
-Medicare benefits provided after the person receives disability benefits for 2 years
-Cancer, early onset dementia, ALS
✔✔Social security - ✔✔-Entitlement program, if you paid in you're entitled to benefits
based on work history
-62 is earliest age of retirement not on disability
✔✔Supplemental Security Insurance - ✔✔-Means tested -- meaning income &
resources must be below a certain level to qualify.
