Match the term with the appropriate definition or description.

Question

A. Encompasses a wide range of health care, as well as social and residential services, provided to people who have lost or never developed the capacity to care for themselves independently as a result of chronic illness or mental or physical disability
B. Hospital or clinic-based care for brief conditions
C. Provides care to individuals with a chronic incurable or terminal illness
D. Family members and friends
E. Often referred to as post-acute care
F. A category of facilities that are designed for residents who need minimal assistance with ADLs or who are in the early stages of dementia
G. Unique entities that combine the insurance function with the residence and health provision
H. Can follow either a social or medical model, or be a combination model
I. Area or organization that provides social functions for the elderly
J. Designed to give informal caregivers a break by providing care for their loved one who requires LTC
K. A system of managed care serving frail elderly who are eligible for nursing home care
L. An effort to care for the patient by coordinating a combination of services that will allow for the most independent level of functioning within a supportive system
M. Persons receiving LTC may need acute care at certain times

Answer 1

A. long-term care (LTC)
B. acute care
C. palliative care
D. informal caregiver
E. rehabilitation
F. residential care facilities
G. continuing care retirement community (CCRC)
H. adult day care
I. senior center
J. respite care
K. program of all-inclusive care for the elderly (PACE)
L. case management
M. continuum of care