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Real People Real Problems An Evaluation of the Long-Term Care Ombudsman Programs of the Older Americans Act (1995) / Chapter Skim
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Glossary and Acronyms
Pages 289-291

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... ADL (activities of daily living) Basic self-care activities, including eating, bathing, dressing, transferring, and bowel and bladder control, which are widely used as a basis for assessing individual functional status.
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... A set of health, personal care, and social services delivered over a sustained period of time to persons who have lost or never acquired some degree of functional capacity either mental or physical. Services can be provided in an institution, the home, or the community, and include informal services provided by family or friends as well as fonnal services provided by professionals or agencies.
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... quality of care The degree to which health services for individuals and populations increase the likelihood of desired health outcomes and are consistent with current professional knowledge (as defined by the Institute of Medicine)
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Key Terms

  • security act
  • programs funded
  • care service
  • care facility
  • administrative responsibility

  • daily living
  • nursing facility
  • functional status
  • bladder control
  • direct involvement

  • security income
  • receive funding
  • direct services
  • living arrangements
  • living activities

  • instrumental activities
  • including eating
  • foster homes
  • income benefits
  • assessing individual

  • home management
  • administrative oversight
  • independent living
  • individual functional
  • managing money

  • financial relationship
  • supplemental security
  • state unit
  • oversight responsibility
  • doing laundry


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