Transition Care for the Elderly IELTS Reading Answers

Transition Care for the Elderly is an IELTS Reading text in Section 1. It comes with Questions 1 to 6, and all six are True, False, Not Given questions. The text explains a short care program for older people who have left a hospital. It looks easy, but many students lose marks here. The words in the questions are close to the words in the text, so you must read each statement with care.

Transition Care for the Elderly

What is transition care?

Transition care is for older people who have been receiving medical treatment, but need more help to recover, and time to make a decision about the best place for them to live in the longer term. You can only access transition care directly from the hospital.

Transition care is focused on individual goals and therapies and is given for a limited time only. It offers access to a package of services that may include:

low-intensity therapy such as physiotherapy (exercise, mobility, strength, and balance) and podiatry (foot care)
access to a social worker
nursing support for clinical care, such as wound care
personal care

Who provides transition care services?

Transition care is often provided by non-government organisations and is subsidised by the government. If your circumstances allow, it is expected you'll contribute to the cost of your care. Daily care fees are set by the organisation that provides your transition care services (your service provider). They should explain these fees to you, and the amount charged should form part of the agreement between you and the service provider. The fee is calculated on a daily basis.

Where do I receive transition care?

Transition care is provided in your own home or in a 'live-in' setting. This setting can be part of an existing aged-care home or health facility, such as a separate wing of a hospital.

What if I'm already receiving services through a different programme?

If you're already receiving subsidised residential care in an aged-care home, but you need to go

somewhere else for transition care, your place in the aged-care home will be held until you return.

Questions 1-6

Do the following statements agree with the information given in the reading passage?

In boxes 1-6 on your answer sheet, write

TRUE if the statement agrees with the information

FALSE if the statement contradicts the information

NOT GIVEN if there is no information on this

Only hospital patients can go on to have transition care.
Transition care may be long term or short term.
Everyone receiving transition care must contribute to the cost.
Transition care at home is only available for patients who live alone.
Transition care may be given on a hospital site.
You may lose your place in a care home if you have to leave it to receive transition care.

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Answers for Transition Care for the Elderly with Explanations

1. Only hospital patients can go on to have transition care.

Answer: TRUE

Explanation: Entry comes directly from the hospital, and no other route is offered. Saying everyone arrives from the hospital and saying only hospital patients can enter are the same rule stated from opposite ends, so the two agree.

2. Transition care may be long term or short term.

Answer: FALSE

Explanation: The statement leaves two doors open, long term or short term, while the text keeps only one. Care runs for a limited time and nothing suggests otherwise. Widening a restriction is a contradiction, not a gap, which is where students who reach for Not Given lose the mark.

3. Everyone receiving transition care must contribute to the cost.

Answer: FALSE

Explanation: Everything turns on the word everyone. Paying towards your care is expected if your circumstances allow, and such a condition always leaves some people outside it. A rule with exceptions is not a rule for everyone.

4. Transition care at home is only available for patients who live alone.

Answer: NOT GIVEN

Explanation: Home care is one of two settings and no conditions are placed on choosing it. Living alone never comes up anywhere. To mark something False, you need a line that pushes back against it, and here there is nothing to push back at all.

5. Transition care may be given on a hospital site.

Answer: TRUE

Explanation: A separate wing of a hospital is given as one example of a live-in setting, and that is a hospital site by any reading. The words in the question and the words on the page differ, but the meaning is the same, which is what this question tests.

6. You may lose your place in a care home if you have to leave it to receive transition care.

Answer: FALSE

Explanation: Someone who leaves residential care for transition care keeps their place until they come back. The statement says it may be lost. Held and lost cannot both be right, so this contradicts.

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