NCCAP (Actual) National Exam Rated A+
Abraham Maslow - ANSWER-Motivation theory described in a hierarchy of needs which
must be fulfilled at the basic need levels before enlightenment and self-actualization can
be achieved.
Accountability - ANSWER-Being responsible for your actions and taking any
consequences.
Activism - ANSWER-Action to support an issue.
Activity - ANSWER-Anything engaging that is not physical therapy, or ADL.
Activity Theory - ANSWER-The Havighurst theory that older people are most happy
when engaged in an activities and social interactions.
Adaptive Skills - ANSWER-The ability to change the way you do things when an
obstacle, like aging or illness, is making the task difficult.
Advance Directives - ANSWER-Legal paperwork outlining a persons wishes about their
end of life care.
Advocacy - ANSWER-Supporting a cause or issue by writing, speaking out or otherwise
calling attention to it in order to elicit a change.
Authority - ANSWER-Power an individual or group has over others, that enable them to
carry out a job, but comes with responsibility.
Autonomy - ANSWER-The ability to do things for oneself, ie... vote, advance directives.
CCRC - ANSWER-Continuing Care Retirement Community
Certification - ANSWER-An award used to recognize a person as having met special
qualifications of a professional board within a field.
Chain of Command - ANSWER-The line in which authority flows from the top executive
down to the ranks of employees and accountability flows up.
Cms - ANSWER-Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Cohort Effect - ANSWER-Persons born in the same generation experiencing similar life
events and the changes and adaptations. Also how they view themselves as they age.
Continuum of Care - ANSWER-Health care through the stages of illness or aging:
Independent living, assisted living, nursing home and skilled nursing.
, Coping skills - ANSWER-The ability to deal with life's problems and accept or adapt to
them as necessary.
Crystallized Intelligence - ANSWER-Using skills, knowledge and information from long
term memory.
Cumulative Disadvantage - ANSWER-Early life choices, opportunities and historical
events reflect negatively in the quality of life in old age. Two types are gender inequality
and racial inequality.
Deficiency - ANSWER-Being lacking or inadequate in standards or rules set by the
federal government or state.
Departmentalization - ANSWER-Defining groups that carry out specific tasks, such as
housekeeping and nursing.
Ethics - ANSWER-A set of moral principles and values to follow.
Fluid Intelligence - ANSWER-The ability to use logic, identify patterns and solve new
problems.
Functional Age - ANSWER-Regardless of chronological age, it is the level of activity,
physically, mentally and socially that one lives along with physical aging appearance.
Hospice - ANSWER-An organization that cares for people physically, emotionally and
mentally, with illnesses in the last 6 months of life.
Interpretive guidelines - ANSWER-An explanation of how actions should be done
according to the rules which are being interpreted.
Kubler Ross - ANSWER-Dr. Kubler Ross, psychiatrist, wrote several books about dying
and grief. She outlined the five stages of dying: denial, anger, bargaining, depression
and acceptance.
Leisure - ANSWER-Time where there is no demand of work or duties.
Life Course Perspective - ANSWER-The life course perspective is how one experiences
life events and how society judges their course which is used to better understand the
mental, physical and social health of residents and their needs.
Life Span - ANSWER-The entirety of life from birth to death.
Long term care model - ANSWER-Units separated by illnesses and include Resident
Rights, Quality of Life, and Quality Care for programming that is centered on assessed
Abraham Maslow - ANSWER-Motivation theory described in a hierarchy of needs which
must be fulfilled at the basic need levels before enlightenment and self-actualization can
be achieved.
Accountability - ANSWER-Being responsible for your actions and taking any
consequences.
Activism - ANSWER-Action to support an issue.
Activity - ANSWER-Anything engaging that is not physical therapy, or ADL.
Activity Theory - ANSWER-The Havighurst theory that older people are most happy
when engaged in an activities and social interactions.
Adaptive Skills - ANSWER-The ability to change the way you do things when an
obstacle, like aging or illness, is making the task difficult.
Advance Directives - ANSWER-Legal paperwork outlining a persons wishes about their
end of life care.
Advocacy - ANSWER-Supporting a cause or issue by writing, speaking out or otherwise
calling attention to it in order to elicit a change.
Authority - ANSWER-Power an individual or group has over others, that enable them to
carry out a job, but comes with responsibility.
Autonomy - ANSWER-The ability to do things for oneself, ie... vote, advance directives.
CCRC - ANSWER-Continuing Care Retirement Community
Certification - ANSWER-An award used to recognize a person as having met special
qualifications of a professional board within a field.
Chain of Command - ANSWER-The line in which authority flows from the top executive
down to the ranks of employees and accountability flows up.
Cms - ANSWER-Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Cohort Effect - ANSWER-Persons born in the same generation experiencing similar life
events and the changes and adaptations. Also how they view themselves as they age.
Continuum of Care - ANSWER-Health care through the stages of illness or aging:
Independent living, assisted living, nursing home and skilled nursing.
, Coping skills - ANSWER-The ability to deal with life's problems and accept or adapt to
them as necessary.
Crystallized Intelligence - ANSWER-Using skills, knowledge and information from long
term memory.
Cumulative Disadvantage - ANSWER-Early life choices, opportunities and historical
events reflect negatively in the quality of life in old age. Two types are gender inequality
and racial inequality.
Deficiency - ANSWER-Being lacking or inadequate in standards or rules set by the
federal government or state.
Departmentalization - ANSWER-Defining groups that carry out specific tasks, such as
housekeeping and nursing.
Ethics - ANSWER-A set of moral principles and values to follow.
Fluid Intelligence - ANSWER-The ability to use logic, identify patterns and solve new
problems.
Functional Age - ANSWER-Regardless of chronological age, it is the level of activity,
physically, mentally and socially that one lives along with physical aging appearance.
Hospice - ANSWER-An organization that cares for people physically, emotionally and
mentally, with illnesses in the last 6 months of life.
Interpretive guidelines - ANSWER-An explanation of how actions should be done
according to the rules which are being interpreted.
Kubler Ross - ANSWER-Dr. Kubler Ross, psychiatrist, wrote several books about dying
and grief. She outlined the five stages of dying: denial, anger, bargaining, depression
and acceptance.
Leisure - ANSWER-Time where there is no demand of work or duties.
Life Course Perspective - ANSWER-The life course perspective is how one experiences
life events and how society judges their course which is used to better understand the
mental, physical and social health of residents and their needs.
Life Span - ANSWER-The entirety of life from birth to death.
Long term care model - ANSWER-Units separated by illnesses and include Resident
Rights, Quality of Life, and Quality Care for programming that is centered on assessed
