Across
- 4. those over 85 years age
- 5. Agencies that provide nursing and medical care in the patient's home.
- 9. a disease that is long in duration,recurs frequently, and progresses slowly
- 10. the process of providing personal care services for a senior friend or family member who is physically or mentally disabled or is experiencing dementia
- 12. System of providing health and personal care support for the disabled, elderly, or others with chronic health problems in people's homes instead of an institution
- 13. Primary care physicians who specialize in the care of those 65 years of age and older and focus on common health and social issues related to the aging process.
Down
- 1. Related to characteristics of the population: age, gender, race, and ethnicity.
- 2. a degenerative brain disease and the most common form of dementia
- 3. decline in cognitive function that affects memory,language,and problem-solving skills.Causes are poor heart health, smoking, brain injury, and some disease of the brain including alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia.Typical symptoms are getting lost in familiar neighborhoods,forgetting names of family members, or forgetting common words
- 6. Division within HHS agency, Administration for Community living, provides a variety of Home - and community-based services for older adults and disabled persons
- 7. Healthcare plan with established cost controls and designed to improve quality of care
- 8. Model for teaching students in the health professions about the roles and responsibilities of health professionals by functioning as a collaborative team during clinical training.
- 11. set of key capabilities used to evaluate need for personal care assistance for older adults
- 14. a nursing home that provides the level of care closest to the hospital care