PSYC 357 Lecture Notes - Advance Healthcare Directive, Terror Management Theory, Do Not Resuscitate

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Nursing homes: medical institution providing room, meals, skilled nursing and rehabilitation care, medical services, and protective services. Home health services: allows old who are ill or disabled to maintain an independent life. When it simulates the types of restorative services provided in nursing homes it can help to maintain the older person in the home longer, staving off institutionalization or emergency room care. Geriatric partial hospital: daily outpatient therapy to older persons who have recently been discharged from a psychiatric facility. Geriatric continuing day treatment: less intense program. Day care centers: individuals receive supervised meals and activities on a daily basis. Continuing care retirement (ccrc): housing community that provides different levels of care based on the residents" needs. Most nursing homes are run like a business with the goal of making a profit. Not-for-profit nursing homes have higher quality ratings than their for-profit counterparts.

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