The Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1987 (OBRA) was enacted in response to the deinstitutionalization of many nursing home residents in the 1980s and 1990s. What is the purpose of OBRA?
What will be an ideal response?
Ans: Additional screening has been put in place to ensure that a patient is not inappropriately institutionalized or to determine if she or he has a developmental disability or mental illness that may be amenable to treatment other than nursing-home care. It is also in place to ensure that nursing home residents with a mental illness or developmental disability receive the appropriate services while they are residents of a nursing home.
You might also like to view...
"Client empowerment" means:
A. everyone in need of assistance has the same opportunity to approach, apply for, and use case management services. B. services are provided to the client uninterrupted from the first phone call to termination and often beyond. C. plans are designed so that each service enhances and supports other efforts. D. clients are respected as individuals by building on their strengths and placing them in partnership roles.
Successful aging is used to describe older adults who have a good income and who live with a family member
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Stuart Hall views mass media in Western, pluralistic democracies as a "public forum" in which
a) social elites stage rituals to win public support for the status quo b) elites and counterelites struggle to define the social world c) a hegemonic ideology is promoted to the exclusion of all else d) counterelites enjoy important advantages over elites
According to Kohlberg, ______ is the central universal and organizing principle of his moral development theory.
a. invariant sequence b. moral growth c. cognitive growth d. social justice