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Part 6 Key Terms
Part 6 Key Terms - Working with Older Adults
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Accreditation | Third-party verification that a certification body and its certification program have met a defined set of standards. |
| Accreditation of educational institutions | A voluntary designation that is awarded by nongovernmental, not-for-profit, freestanding associations that regulate academic programs. |
| Accreditation of health care organizations | Accreditation by The Joint Commission is awarded to hospitals, nursing homes, and other health care organizations that meet specified criteria regarding patient safety and quality. |
| Accreditation of professional credentials | The two most known accrediting bodies are the Institute for Credentialing Excellence’s (ICE’s) National Commission for Certifying Agencies (NCCA) and the ANAB National Accreditation Board (ANAB). |
| Autonomy | The concept that individuals should reign over themselves and can and should make their own decisions about how to live their lives, regardless of whether others think those decisions are good or bad. |
| Beneficence | An ethical principle of doing the most good. |
| Certificate | A document, credential, or designation awarded after a person has completed one training or educational course. For life; they cannot be taken away. |
| Certificate program | A set of education or training courses on a single topic (as opposed to broad-based general education). May include an exam based on course content that is typically written and administered by the course designer or instructor. |
| Certification | A credential that demonstrates a person has acquired additional knowledge and skills above the basic requirements of a profession or occupation. Certification is not mandatory and is usually controlled by the profession itself, not a regulatory body. |
| Certification program | A set of criteria (i.e., the standard) for a profession or occupation that is established, administered, upheld, and enforced by a third-party certification body that awards the certification to individuals and professionals who have met the criteria. |
| Clinical incapacity | The inability to make a specific decision in a specific medical circumstance, as determined by a clinician. |
| Code | An open disclosure of the way an organization operates, providing visible guidelines for behavior. |
| Continuum of incapacity | A spectrum of capacity or lack of capacity that can affect an older person’s ability to make an informed decision. |
| Credential | An attestation by a body (e.g., school, certification body, governmental agency) that says something about the person who holds it. |
| Degree | A form of a diploma awarded by an educational institution. Institutions that offer both certificate and diploma programs can be accredited or nonaccredited. |
| Designation | The actual letters or mark (e.g., CPA, MD, RN, CSA, BA, MBA, PhD) that signify an earned credential. |
| Diploma | A document attesting that a person has completed an entire series of educational or training courses or for an educational program consisting of many courses. A diploma is awarded for life and cannot be taken away. |
| Elder financial abuse | The illegal taking, misuse, or concealment of funds, property, or assets of a vulnerable older adult at risk for harm by another due to changes in physical functioning, mental functioning, or both; a synonym for exploitation. |
| Ethics | Society’s standards and rules for what is right and wrong behavior. |
| Exploitation | The fraudulent or otherwise illegal, unauthorized, or improper act or process of an individual, including a caregiver or fiduciary, who uses the resources of an older individual for monetary or personal benefit, profit, or gain. |
| Fiduciary duty | A legal and ethical requirement to act only in the best interests of the client in the care and protection of the client’s money or property. |
| Guardian | An adult who is appointed by the court to assume responsibility for all legally binding decisions made on behalf of an incapacitated adult. |
| Higher Learning Commission (HLC) | An independent corporation and one of two commission members of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools (NCA), which is one of six regional institutional accreditors in the United States. |
| Incapacitated adult | A person who no longer has the ability to make decisions or care for oneself and has been adjudicated incapacitated after a review of medical or psychological evidence by a court. |
| Informed consent | A legal condition whereby a person can be said to have agreed, or given consent, to allow something to happen, based on a full appreciation and understanding of the facts and implications of the action. |
| Joint Commission | An independent, not-for-profit organization, The Joint Commission accredits and certifies more than 20,000 health care organizations and programs in the United States. |
| Legal incapacity | The inability to make legal decisions for oneself in all or some matters, as determined by a judge (also called incompetency). |
| License or licensure | A credential issued by a regulatory body (i.e., federal, state, or local government) to allow an individual to practice a profession or occupation. |
| Magical thinking | A cognitive pattern in which paying clients project their hopes and fears, as well as a desire to be guided or taken care of, onto the professionals they hire. |
| Medicare fraud | A person, group, or company billing Medicare for services or goods that an older adult never received. |
| Morals | Principles that enable people to live cooperatively together in a group or in society because they guide individual conduct on what is acceptable and right behavior. |
| Nonmaleficence | An ethical principle of doing the least harm. |
| Personhood | A standing or status that is bestowed on one human being by others in the context of relationship and social being and implying recognition, respect, and trust. |
| Power differential | A difference between expert and client that results in a vulnerability on the part of the client. |
| Professional boundaries | Boundaries that protect both the client and the professional by defining the limits of a trusted relationship. |
| Values | Individual beliefs about what is important to us personally. |
| Competency | An all-or-nothing legal concept and decision, unlike capacity, which is the ability to make a specific decision in a specific circumstance on a case by- case basis. |
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