State RegulationsFL specificDifficulty 2/5
A Florida LTC policyowner can no longer move safely from her bed to a chair without another person's help. In long-term care terminology, this inability relates to which activity of daily living?
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Why C is correct
Under Florida's LTC terminology standards in Chapter 627, Florida Statutes, transferring is the activity of daily living that covers moving into or out of a bed, chair, or wheelchair. An insured who needs human assistance to move between bed and chair has a transferring impairment, which counts toward the ADL-based trigger that starts long-term care benefits under the policy.
Why the other options are wrong
- A) Eating involves feeding oneself; difficulty moving from bed to chair does not involve the ability to eat.
- B) Toileting involves getting to and using the toilet and performing associated personal hygiene, not bed-to-chair movement.
- D) Continence concerns bladder and bowel control, a separate ADL from the physical act of transferring positions.
Memory hook
Bed to chair = transferring.