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According to the author, home care services are a complex array of
services ranging from assistance for activities of daily living, to
highly technical health care services.
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According to the author, throughout its history, the goal and function
of home health care has changed as those who managed and paid for it
determined what it is. (Rosen 1993) We have yet to overcome this legacy
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False  

 
By 1911 a new era evolved in home care as the Metropolitan Life
Insurance Company was convinced that by providing for nurses to visit in
the home it would be cost saving for the company. The rationale being
that it would save the insurance company revenues by keeping people
healthier through the intervention of Public health nurses. According to
the author this was not a forward thinking and dynamic program.
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Generally, home care is appropriate for a person who needs ongoing care
that cannot easily or effectively be provided solely by family and
friends, but does not need to be in a hospital or other facility.
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False  

 
Medical advances, preventive care and a greater understanding of the
benefits of a healthy lifestyle have not contributed to an increase in
the average life expectancy.
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False  

 
A hospice is a facility that provides inpatient, outpatient or home care
for the terminally ill person.
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False  

 
Although there are many players in the reimbursement orchestra for
elders, the major player and conductor is Medicare.
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False  

 
As a result of escalating aging populations, the spread of communicable
disease, threats of bio-terrorism and war, and access to basic
resources, care around the world is shifting from management of chronic
illness to the management of acute illness.
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False