RDHAP LAW AND ETHICS TEST PAPER QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS 2025/2026 GRADED A+
✔✔Adult Protective Services - ✔✔Those preventive and remedial activities performed
on behalf of elders and dependent adults of are unable to protect their own interests,
harmed or threatened with harm, cause physical or mental injury due to the action or
inaction of another person or their own action as a result of ignorance, illiteracy,
incompetence mental limitation, substance abuse, or poor health, lacking in adequate
food, shelter, or clothing, exploited of their income and resources, or deprived of
entitlement due them
✔✔Adult Protective Services Agency - ✔✔A County welfare department, except
persons who do not work directly with elders or dependent adults as part of their official
duties, including members of support staff and maintenance staff.
✔✔Bureau - ✔✔Bureau fo Medi-Cal Fraud within the office of the Attorney General
✔✔Care Custodian - ✔✔An administrator or an employee of any of the following public
or private facilities or agencies, or persons providing care or services for elders or
dependent adults, including members of the support staff and maintenance staff:
A) 24/7 health facilities
B) Clinics
C) Lots of other stuff
✔✔Clients' Rights Advocate - ✔✔The individual(s) assigned by a regional center or
state hospital developmental center to be responsible for clients' rights assurance for
persons with developmental disabilities
✔✔Dependent Adult - ✔✔A) Any person between 18-64 years old who resides in this
state and who has physical or mental limitations that restrict his/her ability to carry out
normal activities or to protect his/her rights, including, but not limited to, persons who
have physical or developmental disabilities, or whose physical or mental abilities have
diminished due to age
B) Any person between 18-64 years old who is admitted as an inpatient to a 24-hour
health facility
✔✔Developmentally Disabled Person - ✔✔A person with a developmental disability
specified by or as described in subdivision (a) of...
✔✔Elder - ✔✔Any person residing in this state 65 years or older
✔✔Elder Representative - ✔✔Conservator, trustee, or other representative of the estate
of an elder or dependance adult, or attorney-in-fact of an elder or dependent adult
, ✔✔Goods/Services necessary to avoid physical harm or mental suffering - ✔✔A)
Provision of medical care
B) Assistance in personal hygiene
C) Adequate clothing
D) Adequately heated and ventilated shelter
E) Protection from health and safety hazards
F) Protection from malnutirtion, under those circumstances where the results include,
but are not limited to, malnutrition and deprivation of necessities or physical punishment
G Transportation and assistance necessary to secure any of the needs set forth in
subdivisions (a)-(f), inclusive
✔✔Imminent Danger - ✔✔Substantial probability that an elder or dependent adult is in
imminent or immediate risk of death or serious physical harm, through either his/her
own action/inaction, or as a result of the action/inaction of another person
✔✔Long-Term Care Facility - ✔✔A) Any long-term health care facility
B) Any community care facility whether licensed or unlicensed
C) Any swing bed in an acute care facility, or any extended care facility
D) Any adult day health care facility
E) Any residential care facility for the elderly
✔✔Mental Suffering - ✔✔Fear, agitation, confusion, severe depression, or other forms
of serious emotional distress that is brought about by forms of intimidating behavior,
threats, harassment, or by deceptive acts performed or false or misleading statements
made with malicious intent to agitate, confuse, frighten, or cause severe depression or
serious emotional distress of the elder or dependent adult.
✔✔Elder Neglect - ✔✔A) Failure of any person having the care or custody of an
elder/dependent adult to exercise that degree of care that a reasonable person in a like
position would exercise
B) Failure to assist in personal hygiene or in the provision of food, clothing, or shelter
C) Failure to provide medical care for physical or mental health needs
D) Failure to protect from health and safety hazards
E) Failure to prevent malnutrition or dehydration
F) Failure of an elder or dependent adult to satisfy the needs for himself/herself as a
result of poor cognitive functioning, mental limitation, substance abuse, or chronic poor
health.
✔✔Patients' Rights Advocate - ✔✔Person who has no direct or indirect clinical or
administrative responsibility for the patient, and who is responsible for ensuring that
laws, regulations, and policies on the rights of the patients are observed
✔✔Physical Abuse - ✔✔Assault, battery, unreasonable physical constraint, sexual
assault/battery, rape, incest, sodomy, oral copulation, sexual penetration, for
punishment
SOLUTIONS 2025/2026 GRADED A+
✔✔Adult Protective Services - ✔✔Those preventive and remedial activities performed
on behalf of elders and dependent adults of are unable to protect their own interests,
harmed or threatened with harm, cause physical or mental injury due to the action or
inaction of another person or their own action as a result of ignorance, illiteracy,
incompetence mental limitation, substance abuse, or poor health, lacking in adequate
food, shelter, or clothing, exploited of their income and resources, or deprived of
entitlement due them
✔✔Adult Protective Services Agency - ✔✔A County welfare department, except
persons who do not work directly with elders or dependent adults as part of their official
duties, including members of support staff and maintenance staff.
✔✔Bureau - ✔✔Bureau fo Medi-Cal Fraud within the office of the Attorney General
✔✔Care Custodian - ✔✔An administrator or an employee of any of the following public
or private facilities or agencies, or persons providing care or services for elders or
dependent adults, including members of the support staff and maintenance staff:
A) 24/7 health facilities
B) Clinics
C) Lots of other stuff
✔✔Clients' Rights Advocate - ✔✔The individual(s) assigned by a regional center or
state hospital developmental center to be responsible for clients' rights assurance for
persons with developmental disabilities
✔✔Dependent Adult - ✔✔A) Any person between 18-64 years old who resides in this
state and who has physical or mental limitations that restrict his/her ability to carry out
normal activities or to protect his/her rights, including, but not limited to, persons who
have physical or developmental disabilities, or whose physical or mental abilities have
diminished due to age
B) Any person between 18-64 years old who is admitted as an inpatient to a 24-hour
health facility
✔✔Developmentally Disabled Person - ✔✔A person with a developmental disability
specified by or as described in subdivision (a) of...
✔✔Elder - ✔✔Any person residing in this state 65 years or older
✔✔Elder Representative - ✔✔Conservator, trustee, or other representative of the estate
of an elder or dependance adult, or attorney-in-fact of an elder or dependent adult
, ✔✔Goods/Services necessary to avoid physical harm or mental suffering - ✔✔A)
Provision of medical care
B) Assistance in personal hygiene
C) Adequate clothing
D) Adequately heated and ventilated shelter
E) Protection from health and safety hazards
F) Protection from malnutirtion, under those circumstances where the results include,
but are not limited to, malnutrition and deprivation of necessities or physical punishment
G Transportation and assistance necessary to secure any of the needs set forth in
subdivisions (a)-(f), inclusive
✔✔Imminent Danger - ✔✔Substantial probability that an elder or dependent adult is in
imminent or immediate risk of death or serious physical harm, through either his/her
own action/inaction, or as a result of the action/inaction of another person
✔✔Long-Term Care Facility - ✔✔A) Any long-term health care facility
B) Any community care facility whether licensed or unlicensed
C) Any swing bed in an acute care facility, or any extended care facility
D) Any adult day health care facility
E) Any residential care facility for the elderly
✔✔Mental Suffering - ✔✔Fear, agitation, confusion, severe depression, or other forms
of serious emotional distress that is brought about by forms of intimidating behavior,
threats, harassment, or by deceptive acts performed or false or misleading statements
made with malicious intent to agitate, confuse, frighten, or cause severe depression or
serious emotional distress of the elder or dependent adult.
✔✔Elder Neglect - ✔✔A) Failure of any person having the care or custody of an
elder/dependent adult to exercise that degree of care that a reasonable person in a like
position would exercise
B) Failure to assist in personal hygiene or in the provision of food, clothing, or shelter
C) Failure to provide medical care for physical or mental health needs
D) Failure to protect from health and safety hazards
E) Failure to prevent malnutrition or dehydration
F) Failure of an elder or dependent adult to satisfy the needs for himself/herself as a
result of poor cognitive functioning, mental limitation, substance abuse, or chronic poor
health.
✔✔Patients' Rights Advocate - ✔✔Person who has no direct or indirect clinical or
administrative responsibility for the patient, and who is responsible for ensuring that
laws, regulations, and policies on the rights of the patients are observed
✔✔Physical Abuse - ✔✔Assault, battery, unreasonable physical constraint, sexual
assault/battery, rape, incest, sodomy, oral copulation, sexual penetration, for
punishment
