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Question 1.
Long-term care is designed to be used as a last resort, to be undertaken when medical care has failed.
   
 
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Question 2.
The availability of Medicare has meant that older people today have lower out-of-pocket expenses for health care than they did before the passage of Medicare.
   
 
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Question 3.
A consequence of the diagnostic related groups (DRGs) is that Medicare patients may be prematurely discharged from hospitals.
   
 
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Question 4.
Most older people who need long-term care are covered by Medicaid.
   
 
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Question 5.
The majority of older people who need assistance with multiple ADLs continue to live at home
   
 
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Question 6.
Among those 85 and over, the numbers in nursing homes and with ADL or IADL restrictions is more than four times that of those 65 years and over.
   
 
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Question 7.
The most rapidly growing Medicare benefit over the past few years has been home and community-based care.
   
 
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Question 8.
Older people constitute the majority of Medicaid users today.
   
 
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Question 9.
Most long-term care expenditures in the United States are for those 65 and over.
   
 
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Question 10.
Physicians are the primary providers of care within chronic-care facilities.
   
 
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