LONG TERM CARE AND ADMINISTRATION EXAM 1 REVIEW
EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
"Disability" can have which of the following dimensions? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Bodily function
Activity restriction
Participation restrictions
The most significant difference between independent elderly housing and congregate elderly housing is
the group dining experience being found in the latter. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅True
Discrimination based on a person's age could be defined as ageism. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅True
3 types of senior centers are multipurpose centers, specialized centers, and intergenerational centers. -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅True
Most people over age 65, for personal care needs, rely upon unpaid caregivers. - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅True
A nursing home resident who needs physical assistance in completing a functional activity-of-daily living,
but who can personally contribute at least 50% to completing the task, would be rated at "limited"
assistance level. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅True
12 staff work must each work Monday-Friday 4 hours a day; and, one different staff member must 8
hours on a Monday and 8 hours on a Wednesday. Collectively, these workers FOR THE WEEK represent
7.4 paid productive F.T.E. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅False
The term "universal worker" (if the employer chooses to use such an employee) applies to an employee
in exclusively the nursing home setting who would perform a variety of tasks such as dietary, nursing
and housekeeping. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅False
Telehealth, senior centers, and adult day care are forms of community-based services. - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅True
, A nursing home participating in the Medicare or Medicaid program cannot require a resident family
member to personally pay out of his/her own monies for a resident's stay. The nursing home can only
look to the resources of the resident. However, if the family member manages that resident's money,
the nursing home can look to recovery of those monies. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅True
Determination of adequate staffing for a facility for budget determination purposes should rely on
actual occupancy patterns (census), patient/resident acuity levels, physical plant configuration,
governmental regulation requirements and the facility's own policies and procedures. - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅True
There typically are cures for chronic health conditions, but not for chronic disability conditions. -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅False
Combative residents are typically acceptable for retention in both an assisted living setting and nursing
home setting, but not in independent or congregate elderly housing. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅False
In medical homes, a _______ provides 24-hour access to healthcare services. - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅multidisciplinary team
A goal of the Affordable Care Act is to shift Medicaid dollars away from institutional care and move
towards home and community-based service options. The primary goal of this Act is to diminish the
availability of private health insurance to persons supported by government subsidies. - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅False
Another name for a Continuing Care Retirement Community is a Life Plan Community. These
organizations typically provide elderly housing, assisted living and nursing home care all on the same
property, and if they do not do all on the same property, they have arrangements locally to provide
same. The CCRC is considered to be in the healthcare model because it has the ultimate discretion to
determine whether someone has to leave the independent housing section of the campus and move to
a higher level of care on campus. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅False
In congregate elderly housing, staff typically assist the resident with functional activities-of-daily living,
but do not do so relative to instrumental activities-of-daily living. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅False
EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
"Disability" can have which of the following dimensions? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Bodily function
Activity restriction
Participation restrictions
The most significant difference between independent elderly housing and congregate elderly housing is
the group dining experience being found in the latter. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅True
Discrimination based on a person's age could be defined as ageism. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅True
3 types of senior centers are multipurpose centers, specialized centers, and intergenerational centers. -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅True
Most people over age 65, for personal care needs, rely upon unpaid caregivers. - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅True
A nursing home resident who needs physical assistance in completing a functional activity-of-daily living,
but who can personally contribute at least 50% to completing the task, would be rated at "limited"
assistance level. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅True
12 staff work must each work Monday-Friday 4 hours a day; and, one different staff member must 8
hours on a Monday and 8 hours on a Wednesday. Collectively, these workers FOR THE WEEK represent
7.4 paid productive F.T.E. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅False
The term "universal worker" (if the employer chooses to use such an employee) applies to an employee
in exclusively the nursing home setting who would perform a variety of tasks such as dietary, nursing
and housekeeping. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅False
Telehealth, senior centers, and adult day care are forms of community-based services. - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅True
, A nursing home participating in the Medicare or Medicaid program cannot require a resident family
member to personally pay out of his/her own monies for a resident's stay. The nursing home can only
look to the resources of the resident. However, if the family member manages that resident's money,
the nursing home can look to recovery of those monies. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅True
Determination of adequate staffing for a facility for budget determination purposes should rely on
actual occupancy patterns (census), patient/resident acuity levels, physical plant configuration,
governmental regulation requirements and the facility's own policies and procedures. - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅True
There typically are cures for chronic health conditions, but not for chronic disability conditions. -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅False
Combative residents are typically acceptable for retention in both an assisted living setting and nursing
home setting, but not in independent or congregate elderly housing. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅False
In medical homes, a _______ provides 24-hour access to healthcare services. - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅multidisciplinary team
A goal of the Affordable Care Act is to shift Medicaid dollars away from institutional care and move
towards home and community-based service options. The primary goal of this Act is to diminish the
availability of private health insurance to persons supported by government subsidies. - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅False
Another name for a Continuing Care Retirement Community is a Life Plan Community. These
organizations typically provide elderly housing, assisted living and nursing home care all on the same
property, and if they do not do all on the same property, they have arrangements locally to provide
same. The CCRC is considered to be in the healthcare model because it has the ultimate discretion to
determine whether someone has to leave the independent housing section of the campus and move to
a higher level of care on campus. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅False
In congregate elderly housing, staff typically assist the resident with functional activities-of-daily living,
but do not do so relative to instrumental activities-of-daily living. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅False
