ACTIVITY DIRECTOR EXAMS SCRIPT ANSWERS AND QUESTIONS
GRADED A+
✔✔Palliative Care - ✔✔Care provided to those suffering from chronic and serious
illness. Similar to hospice. While hospice is defined for those with less than six months
to live, palliative care has no time frame.
✔✔Theories of Aging - ✔✔Varies theories as to why we age two categories genetic and
wear and tear theories
✔✔Cumulative Disadvantage - ✔✔The idea that the negative effects of patterns of
inequality in wealth, status, and availability of opportunities accumulate over the life
span of
✔✔Functional age - ✔✔actual competence and performance of an older adult, as
distinguished from chronological age
✔✔Age Grades - ✔✔Permanent age categories in a society through which people pass
during the course of a lifetime
✔✔Age Norms - ✔✔Informal standards defining appropriate age and behavior for
certain life events.
✔✔Wellness - ✔✔An overall state of well-being or total health
✔✔Life Span - ✔✔The greater number of years a person can live
✔✔Abraham Maslow's - ✔✔A psychologist who proposed a five-tier model of human
needs often depicted in a hierarchical level within a pyramid. The five needs include
physiological, safety, love/belonging, esteem, and self-actualization . Maslow postulates
that are most basic needs must be met top achieve the next level.
✔✔Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) - ✔✔A continuous improvement in the
quality of the product or service being delivered
✔✔CAA (Care Area Assessment) - ✔✔Problem assessment tools evaluates data
collected in MDS
✔✔CAT Care Area Triggers - ✔✔Are specific resident responsive for one or a
combination of MDS elements. The triggers identify residents who have or are at risk for
developing specific functional problems and require further assessments
✔✔SMART - ✔✔Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, Timely
, ✔✔progress notes - ✔✔A Note written on a quarterly basis to review the progress in
meeting the defined goal
✔✔RAI Resident Assessment Instrument - ✔✔Federal Form Made up of two parts MDS
and CAA
✔✔Initial Assessment - ✔✔The process of collecting information (physical, cognitive
and psychosocial) about the person in order to develop an individualized plan of care.
✔✔MDS (minimum data set) - ✔✔• Federally mandated clinical assessment process
• Mandatory if accepting Medicaid or Medicare
• Comprehensive assessment of functional capabilities
• Foundation for care plan writing
• Completed for every resident, regardless of payor
• 3.0: Focus on person-centered care, change in direction from LTC historically
✔✔CAA - ✔✔Care Area Assessment
✔✔Quality of Life (QOL) - ✔✔A patient's perceptions of how he or she deals with a
disease or with everyday life when suffering from a particular condition. It is subjective
because information cannot be measured objectively; however, it has been in the
health-care literature for at least 20 years.
✔✔Accurate Care - ✔✔This is care that is based on individualized assessments. The
combined assessments of the care team and the interdisciplinary meeting will allow
more integrated assessment information which will lead to more actuate care.
✔✔Goal - ✔✔A precise statement of results the business expects to achieve.
✔✔Tally of Interest - ✔✔The listing of resident interests within the initial assessment.
Often represented by a checklist of interests.
✔✔Self-determination - ✔✔The person's right to choose activities, schedule, and health
care activities consistent with their interests, assessments and plans of care. This is the
individual's right to decide and make decisions
✔✔accommodation of needs - ✔✔Individuals needs and interests need to be taken into
account in order to maintain independent functioning, dignity, well-being and self-
determination. This is the care giver and community adapting to the elders needs rather
than forcing elder to adapt to care community schedules.
✔✔Adaptation - ✔✔To change the activity or approach to allow greater success and
independence. Material adaptation (Changing Material ), procedural adaptation
(Changing the rules) or assembly line adaptation are specific types of adaptations
GRADED A+
✔✔Palliative Care - ✔✔Care provided to those suffering from chronic and serious
illness. Similar to hospice. While hospice is defined for those with less than six months
to live, palliative care has no time frame.
✔✔Theories of Aging - ✔✔Varies theories as to why we age two categories genetic and
wear and tear theories
✔✔Cumulative Disadvantage - ✔✔The idea that the negative effects of patterns of
inequality in wealth, status, and availability of opportunities accumulate over the life
span of
✔✔Functional age - ✔✔actual competence and performance of an older adult, as
distinguished from chronological age
✔✔Age Grades - ✔✔Permanent age categories in a society through which people pass
during the course of a lifetime
✔✔Age Norms - ✔✔Informal standards defining appropriate age and behavior for
certain life events.
✔✔Wellness - ✔✔An overall state of well-being or total health
✔✔Life Span - ✔✔The greater number of years a person can live
✔✔Abraham Maslow's - ✔✔A psychologist who proposed a five-tier model of human
needs often depicted in a hierarchical level within a pyramid. The five needs include
physiological, safety, love/belonging, esteem, and self-actualization . Maslow postulates
that are most basic needs must be met top achieve the next level.
✔✔Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) - ✔✔A continuous improvement in the
quality of the product or service being delivered
✔✔CAA (Care Area Assessment) - ✔✔Problem assessment tools evaluates data
collected in MDS
✔✔CAT Care Area Triggers - ✔✔Are specific resident responsive for one or a
combination of MDS elements. The triggers identify residents who have or are at risk for
developing specific functional problems and require further assessments
✔✔SMART - ✔✔Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, Timely
, ✔✔progress notes - ✔✔A Note written on a quarterly basis to review the progress in
meeting the defined goal
✔✔RAI Resident Assessment Instrument - ✔✔Federal Form Made up of two parts MDS
and CAA
✔✔Initial Assessment - ✔✔The process of collecting information (physical, cognitive
and psychosocial) about the person in order to develop an individualized plan of care.
✔✔MDS (minimum data set) - ✔✔• Federally mandated clinical assessment process
• Mandatory if accepting Medicaid or Medicare
• Comprehensive assessment of functional capabilities
• Foundation for care plan writing
• Completed for every resident, regardless of payor
• 3.0: Focus on person-centered care, change in direction from LTC historically
✔✔CAA - ✔✔Care Area Assessment
✔✔Quality of Life (QOL) - ✔✔A patient's perceptions of how he or she deals with a
disease or with everyday life when suffering from a particular condition. It is subjective
because information cannot be measured objectively; however, it has been in the
health-care literature for at least 20 years.
✔✔Accurate Care - ✔✔This is care that is based on individualized assessments. The
combined assessments of the care team and the interdisciplinary meeting will allow
more integrated assessment information which will lead to more actuate care.
✔✔Goal - ✔✔A precise statement of results the business expects to achieve.
✔✔Tally of Interest - ✔✔The listing of resident interests within the initial assessment.
Often represented by a checklist of interests.
✔✔Self-determination - ✔✔The person's right to choose activities, schedule, and health
care activities consistent with their interests, assessments and plans of care. This is the
individual's right to decide and make decisions
✔✔accommodation of needs - ✔✔Individuals needs and interests need to be taken into
account in order to maintain independent functioning, dignity, well-being and self-
determination. This is the care giver and community adapting to the elders needs rather
than forcing elder to adapt to care community schedules.
✔✔Adaptation - ✔✔To change the activity or approach to allow greater success and
independence. Material adaptation (Changing Material ), procedural adaptation
(Changing the rules) or assembly line adaptation are specific types of adaptations
