Midterm Flashcards
What is Ageism?
Successful aging consist of people older than 65
What contributes to successful aging?
Avoiding disease and disability
Physical and mental function
Staying involved with life and living
What effects longevity?
Physical environment Social cultural factors Individual characteristics Gender Socioeconomic factors
Restrictive Lung Disease?
Results from prolonged exposure to irritants (chemicals
Symptoms fibrotic and stiff, decrease elastic content of tissue
Everything is getting stiff
Presybcusis?
Age related hearing loss
High frequency and high pitch noise heard
Slow speech
Sensorineural hearing loss?
Results from loss of damage to the sensory hairs of the cochlea
Cause by medication/loud noise
Tinnitus?
Presents of sound when sound is absent (ringing in ears)
Treatment for Tinnitus?
Cognitive behavioral therapy - emotional support/stress groups,
Diet and lifestyle - nicotine
Auditory habituation - white noise
Masking- launder sound to cover the ringing
What MDS means?
Minimum data set
What is considered a treatment day?
15 minutes (Actual treatment minutes)
CPT codes mean?
Current Procedural Terminology codes
Medicare Part A?
Benefits to be accessed in SNF setting and requires at least 3 days of hospitalization and within 30 days after d/c from hospital.
Physician order needed
Setting: Inpatient, SNF, home health and hospice
Medicare Part B?
Doctors, outpatient, home health, protective services, medical supplies, OT, PT, SLP, x-ray and vaccination
Under part A co-treatment bill?
Bill equal time
needs to state the reason why for co treat
Under part B co-treat bill?
Time needs to be decided or one therapist billed for entire time
concurrent under part A
Two patient performing different activity
Concurrent under part B
NO concurrent is allowed. Billed as group. Regardless of different activities its a group
Group Part A
treating 2-6 people who are doing similar or the same tasks
Group Part B
Treatment of one or more patient regardless of activities.
Med A treatment must be?
Ordered by physician (PDPM)
Med B treatment must be
certified by a physician after therapy evaluation
8 minus rule
Under PDPM patient has the right to return to the SNF if?
Its is within 3 days and needs to be the same SNF
What is cognition ?
- Cognition involves the acquisition, processing and application of information in daily life.
Primary Cognitive Capabilities can be assessed by?
Assessed through interaction and conversation with client during eval. Orientation, attention, and memory.
