Review Questions Homework

The following are the Discussion Questions found at the end of this chapter along with answers to those questions. Please submit your responses to the appropriate DropBox.

1. What is meant by a "consumer-driven" long-term care system?

2. What are some of the rights and responsibilities of long-term care consumers?

3. What are the components of accessibility to long-term care services?

4. What is meant by a uniform assessment?

5. What is the role of illness prevention in long-term care?

6. What are some incentives that might encourage providers to operate more effectively and efficiently?

7. What are some incentives that might encourage consumers to use the long-term care system more effectively and efficiently?

8. What is the role of education in creating a long-term care system that more closely approximates the ideal?

PART I EXERCISES:

The following exercises relate to Part I of the text. Completing them will help you to more fully understand the material covered in that part.

Exercise 1.

It is highly likely that you know someone, perhaps a family member, who has had reason to use some portion of the long-term care system, or maybe you have been involved with the system on someone's behalf. If not, talk with someone who has. Based on that experience, discuss the following two-part question:

A. What did you, or the person needing the services, find to be most difficult about getting or using those services? Possible answers might involve learning about available services, determining financial eligibility, the impersonality of the system, the lack of coordination, etc. You get the idea.

B. If you could improve the long-term care system to remove the difficulty you discussed above, what one thing would you change?