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- 2. Services: For patients who do not require hospitalization.
- 3. Medicine:Refers to practices used instead of Western medicine.
- 6. Racism: Unconscious biases or stereotypes that affect how healthcare providers treat patients without realizing it.
- 7. Medicine: Tailoring health treatment plans to fit an individual patient's unique background, body, and needs.
- 10. To undergo a genetic change or altercation in a cell, bacteria, or virus.
- 17. Nursing Facility (SNF): Provides nursing and rehabilitation services on a 24-hour basis
- 18. Therapy: The transplantation of normal genes into cells in place of missing or defective ones in order to correct genetic disorders.
- 19. Medicine: Comprises methods other than those traditionally used in Western Medicine but that are used together with Western medicine.
- 20. Drug Therapy: Treatment that uses drugs or other substances to identify and attack specific types of cancer cells with less harm to normal cells.
- 22. Living Residence: Provides housing, meals, and personal care to individuals who need help with daily living activities but do not need daily nursing care.
- 23. Malls: Building that groups many different medical clinics, testing labs, and therapy offices together in one convenient location.
- 25. Pain Medication: Drugs that contain addictive substances.
- 26. Physical body symptoms (like stomach pain or headaches) caused or made worse by mental stress or emotional strain.
- 28. Medicine: Choosing treatments specifically based on a person's unique genes, environment, and lifestyle.
- 30. Homes: There are two types of facilities commonly referred to as nursing homes: Skilled Nursing Facility known as SNF and Intermediate Nursing Care Facility known as INCF
- 31. Services: For patients who do not require hospitalization.
- 32. Medicine: An approach to health care that treats the whole person - including physical, metal, emotional, and social health - rather than just treating symptoms.
- 33. An ancient Chinese practice using very thin needles placed in specific spots on the body to relieve paint and help healing.
- 35. Hospitals: Specialized hospitals designed to care for and treat people experiencing severe mental health conditions.
- 37. Provides palliative care and support to patients who are expected to die within 6 months and their families.
- 38. A method of treatment developed by a German physician in the early 1800s based on the idea of stimulating the body’s own healing responses.
- 39. Statistics: Official public records tracking major life events in a population, such as births, deaths, and marriages.
- 40. Relieves but does not cure.
- 41. Disease: The most common dementia, accounting for 60% to 80% of cases.
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- 1. Adherence: Taking medications correctly: the right dose at the right time and as often as prescribed.
- 4. Nursing Care Facility (INCf): Provides personal care, social services, and nursing supervision for at least 8 hours per day.
- 5. Therapy: When administered by a trained practitioner, is widely recognized as a beneficial health practice.
- 8. Medicine: A system in which medical doctors and other healthcare professionals (such as nurses, pharmacists, and therapists) treat symptoms and diseases using drugs, radiation, or surgery.
- 9. Making active, healthy daily choices to keep your mind and body in good overall health.
- 11. Foster Home (also called Adult Foster Care): Provides 24-hour personal care and supervision for at least 8 hours per day.
- 12. Getting permission from a health insurance plan before receiving a specific test or treatment so they agree to cover the cost.
- 13. A condition marked by a decline in memory and/or other thinking skills, caused by damage to the nerve cells in the brain.
- 14. Consciousness: A nursing theory focused on helping patients live meaningful lives by focusing on what they can do rather than their physical limitations.
- 15. Based on the belief that the body can protect itself against disease if the musculoskeletal system, especially the spine, is in good order.
- 16. A government insurance program that helps cover health costs for people with low incomes or disabilities.
- 19. Care Community: Provides a variety of living arrangements that support lifestyles as they change from independent living to the need for regular medical and nursing care.
- 21. An ancient Greek doctors known as the “Father of Medicine” who taught that disease come from natural causes rather than punishment from gods.
- 24. Disparities: Differences in the health status of different groups of people.
- 27. A patient who is admitted to a hospital and stays overnight for treatment.
- 29. Based on the belief that pressure on the nerves leaving the spinal column causes pain or dysfunction of the body part served by that nerve.
- 34. An outbreak of an infectious disease that spreads across many countries or worldwide.
- 36. Medicine: When a healthcare provider offers a combination of Western medicine with complementary and alternative medicine.