Long-Term Care What is long-term care? What types of services are available along the spectrum of long-term-care settings? What is an ethical will? What are advanced directives? Consider that death and dying are part of life and are not a sign of failure; within the context of health and wellness, and successful aging, what role does long-term care play?
Answer :
Services :
At the home :
Hospice :
Adult day care :
Residential seyting :
Institutional setting :
Ethical will :
An ethical will is a document designed to pass ethical values from one generation to the next .
Advanced directive :
Advanced directives are legal documents that allow you to spell out your decisions about end of life care ahead of time .
They give you a way to tell your wishes to family , friends and health care professionals and to avoid confusion later
Successful aging is the process of developing and maintaining the functional ability that enables well being in olde age.
Successful aging is freedom from disease and disability and high cognetive and physical functioning .
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