Health care Systems Test #2 (caregivers) Questions and Answers

Health care Systems Test #2 (caregivers) Questions and Answers CAREGIVER: - Ans ✔️✔️A person who provides direct care (as for children, elderly peop le, or the chronically ill) -Anyone who provides assistance to someone else who is, in some degree, incapacitated and needs help Formal Worker - Ans ✔️✔️Paid/Volunteer Formal Worker - Ans ✔️✔️Skilled/Trained Formal Worker - Ans ✔️✔️Non skilled Informal worker - Ans ✔️✔️Family or friend Informal worker - Ans ✔️✔️Unpaid worker Informal worker - Ans ✔️✔️No training received Which worker is the main one to give assistance to the ill patients? - Ans ✔️✔️Nurses What is a skilled worker? - Ans ✔️✔️They are considered to be an professional -Nurse, Physicians, dietitians and social workers What is a direct care workers? - Ans ✔️✔️Home health aides and patient care attendants What is a non skilled worker? - Ans ✔️✔️Homemakers, companions, tra nsportation services Where are formal caregivers provided through? - Ans ✔️✔️Home care/ home health care aide Community/ social service agency For profit organization Why did formal care services increase? - Ans ✔️✔️Due to the increased: • Senior popul ation • Desire to stay home • Prevalence of chronic disease What is the The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA)? - Ans ✔️✔️Added provisions in the Medicaid program to incent states to improve LTSS infrastructures & expand HCBS What is the The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA)? - Ans ✔️✔️The Community Living Assistance Services and Supports (CLASS) Act What is The American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 (ATRA)? - Ans ✔️✔️Repealed the CLASS Act The American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 (ATRA)? - Ans ✔️✔️Established the commission on long term care