Trivia Flashcards
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What is the maximum number of days Medicare Part A covers skilled nursing facility care following a qualifying hospital stay?
Answer: 100 days
Medicare Part A covers up to 100 days of skilled nursing facility care per benefit period, with full coverage for the first 20 days and copayments for days 21–100.
What is 'presbyopia,' a condition that commonly affects adults over age 40?
Answer: Difficulty focusing on close objects due to reduced lens flexibility
Presbyopia is the age-related loss of the eye's ability to focus on close objects, caused by hardening of the lens, and is typically corrected with reading glasses.
What does 'Medicaid spend-down' refer to in long-term care planning?
Answer: Reducing assets to meet Medicaid's financial eligibility requirements
Medicaid spend-down refers to the process of depleting excess assets or income to meet Medicaid's financial eligibility thresholds for long-term care coverage.
Which neurotransmitter is most significantly reduced in the brains of people with Alzheimer's disease?
Answer: Acetylcholine
Acetylcholine levels are significantly reduced in Alzheimer's disease, which is why cholinesterase inhibitor medications (which prevent acetylcholine breakdown) are used as treatment.
What is a 'continuing care retirement community' (CCRC)?
Answer: A senior community offering multiple levels of care on one campus
A CCRC (also called a life plan community) provides independent living, assisted living, and skilled nursing care on one campus, allowing residents to age in place as needs change.
What percentage of family caregivers in the U.S. are estimated to be women?
Answer: About 60%
Approximately 60% of family caregivers in the U.S. are women, who also tend to provide more hours of care and for longer durations than male caregivers.
Which term describes the philosophy of allowing terminally ill patients to die naturally without aggressive life-prolonging interventions?
Answer: Comfort care (palliative approach)
Comfort care or a palliative approach focuses on quality of life and symptom management, allowing natural death without aggressive interventions, distinct from euthanasia or assisted suicide.