State RegulationsMI specificDifficulty 1/5
Which description best characterizes adult day care as a long-term care service?
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Why C is correct
Adult day care is a community-based daytime program: the participant spends the day in a supervised setting receiving care, social contact, and meals, then returns home in the evening. It is a recognized community-based long-term care service in the settings Michigan's long-term care law framework addresses (M.C.L. 500.3901 to 500.3955), and it gives families a structured option short of institutional care.
Why the other options are wrong
- A) Hospital-based skilled nursing supervision is institutional skilled care, not a community daytime program.
- B) Live-in overnight care is home-based custodial service, the opposite of a daytime community program.
- D) Inpatient rehabilitation is skilled medical care ordered by a physician, not a supervised daytime community program.
Memory hook
Adult day care: days in the community, nights back at home.