Long-Term Care Administration

Part 1:

1. ___________: the ability to share and understand the feelings of others, considered by your professor to be critical trait of any individual wishing to work in healthcare.

2. ___________: negative attitudes toward aging; attitudes, ideas, beliefs and practices that are biased against persons or groups based on their older age.

3. ___________: acronym for the organization that writes the questions and provides the national exam for licensed nursing home administrators, they also accredit long term care degree programs.

4. ___________: the credential that must be obtained (in the U.S) by individuals that wish to oversee the operations of a nursing home.

5. ___________: the scientific and systematic study of aging, not the study of old people.

6. ___________: communities that offer multiple levels of care and typically includes senior housing, assisted living and nursing facility, allowing individuals to age in place.

7. ___________: care provided for the terminally ill.

8. ___________: treatment for the prevention and relief of pain and suffering.

9. ___________: also known as ”Obamacare.”

10. ___________: acronym for the agency in Kentucky that oversees and provides unannounced surveys of assisted living facilities.