Glossary

A

• Active Living Community
• Activities Of Daily Living
• Adult Day Care
• Adult Protective Services (APS)
• Advance Directive
• Aging In Place
• Assisted Living Facilities
• Assistive Technology

B

• Board and Care Homes

C

• Care Or Case Management
• Caregiver
• Caregiver Burnout
• Caregivers Coaching Program
• Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services
• Chore Service
• Cluster Services
• Community Based Services
• Continuum Of Care
• Congregate and Home Delivered Meals
• Continuing Care Retirement Community
• Custodial Care

D

• Decluttering Service
• Dementia
• Disability

E

• Elder Abuse
• Emergency Response System
• Energy Assistance

F

• Filial Responsibility Laws
• Friendly Visitors and Telephone Reassurance Programs

G

• Geriatric Care Managers
• Geriatrician
• Geriatrics
• Gerontology
• Grandfamilies
• Guardian
• Guardianship

H

• Healthcare Proxy
• Health Maintenance Organization (HMO)
• Homebound
• Home Health Agency
• Home Health Care
• Homemaker Service
• Home Modification
• Home Safety Assessment
• Hospice

I

• Independent Living
• Independent Living Facility
• Instrumental Activities of Daily Living
• Intergenerational Living

J

• Joint Commission On Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations

K

• Kinship Navigators

L

• Legal Assistance
• Lifelong Learning
• Living WIll
• Long Term Care
• Long Term Care Insurance
• Long-Term Care Ombudsman

M

• Managed Care
• Meal Prep
• Meals On Wheels
• Medicaid
• Medicaid Spend Down
• Medicaid Waiver Program
• Medicare
• Medicare Insurance Broker
• Medigap
• Memory Care
• More So Disease

N

• National Aging In Place Council
• Needs Assessment
• Nursing Home

O

• Occupational Therapist
• Older Americans Act
• Ombudsman

P

• Power of Attorney
• Predatory Lending
• Provider

Q

• Quality Of Care

R

• Rehabilitation Services
• Respite Care
• Reverse Mortgage
• Rollator Walker

S

• Senior Centers
• Skilled Care
• Social Security
• Stair Lift
• State Health Insurance Information Counseling and Assistance Programs (SHIP)
• Support Groups

T

• Transportation

U

• Universal Design

V

• Vetting
• Visuospatial Skills

W

X

Y

Z