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cmoore54

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What age of onset of alcohol consumption is most predictive of alcohol addiction?
 
  a. 8 or younger
  b. 10 or younger
  c. 12 or younger
  d. 14 or younger

Question 2

What became effective in 1966 by an act of legislation that revolutionized home care?
 
  a. Life insurance
  b. Medicare
  c. Private insurance
  d. Social Security



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Answer to Question 1

ANS: D
Forty-four percent of those who start drinking at the age of 14 or younger will develop alcoholism.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: B
When Medicare became effective in 1966, it revolutionized home care by changing it to a medical rather than nursing model of practice, defining and limiting services it would reimburse, and changing the payment source and even changing the reason home care was provided.



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