Download or read book Aging Well written by JEAN. HASELTINE GALIANA (WILLIAM.) and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This open access book outlines the challenges of supporting the health and wellbeing of older adults around the world and offers examples of solutions designed by stakeholders, healthcare providers, and public, private and nonprofit organizations in the United States. The solutions presented address challenges including: providing person-centered long-term care, making palliative care accessible in all healthcare settings and the home, enabling aging-in-place, financing long-term care, improving care coordination and access to care, delivering hospital-level and emergency care in the home and retirement community settings, merging health and social care, supporting people living with dementia and their caregivers, creating communities and employment opportunities that are accessible and welcoming to those of all ages and abilities, and combating the stigma of aging. The innovative programs of support and care in Aging Well serve as models of excellence that, when put into action, move health spending toward a sustainable path and greatly contribute to the well-being of older adults."--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Financing Health and Long term Care written by United States. Department of the Treasury and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Improving the Quality of Long Term Care written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2001-02-27 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the issues confronting America is long-term care for frail, older persons and others with chronic conditions and functional limitations that limit their ability to care for themselves. Improving the Quality of Long-Term Care takes a comprehensive look at the quality of care and quality of life in long-term care, including nursing homes, home health agencies, residential care facilities, family members and a variety of others. This book describes the current state of long-term care, identifying problem areas and offering recommendations for federal and state policymakers. Who uses long-term care? How have the characteristics of this population changed over time? What paths do people follow in long term care? The committee provides the latest information on these and other key questions. This book explores strengths and limitations of available data and research literature especially for settings other than nursing homes, on methods to measure, oversee, and improve the quality of long-term care. The committee makes recommendations on setting and enforcing standards of care, strengthening the caregiving workforce, reimbursement issues, and expanding the knowledge base to guide organizational and individual caregivers in improving the quality of care.
Download or read book Ageing Long term Care Insurance and Healthcare Finance in Asia written by Sabrina Ching Yuen Luk and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-01-06 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses a revised version of Kingdon’s multiple-streams framework to examine health financing reforms in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the Republic of Korea (ROK) as well as long-term care insurance (LTCI) reforms in Japan and Singapore. It shows that the explanatory power of the multiple-streams framework can be strengthened through enriching the concepts of policy entrepreneurs, ideas, and windows of opportunity in the original framework as well as bringing the theoretical lens of historical institutionalism into the framework.
Download or read book Health Care Financing Extramural Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ... Gives data for each state on number of nursing homes, intermediate care facilities for the mentally retarded, adult day care and other types of residential care facilities, average occupancy rate, number of beds, number of certificate of need programs, licensed home health care agencies, etc.; also gives information on payment methods, capital costs and reimbursement rates ...
Download or read book Long term care financing lessons for low and middle income settings Brief 1 Drivers of the demand for long term care written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2024-02-02 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This brief is part of a series about financing health and social long-term care: lessons for low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The number of people aged 65 years and older will increase in LMICs, where most older people will be living by 2050. Many people in LMICs will experience the onset of age-related health problems before the age of 65 years. Long-term care (LTC) can include some acute care medical services delivered in health facilities, but it primarily refers to support provided outside of the health system by caregivers in institutions or at home to allow people to maintain their routine activities. Individuals’ unmet needs increase the demand for LTC. Without formal LTC services and systems, the costs of LTC shift to the family. Informal caregivers, primarily women, may need to reduce their working hours or leave the labour force prematurely, placing pressure on the economy and household resources. The availability of informal caregivers has declined along with decreases in fertility and family sizes, and increased opportunities for women in the formal workforce. In the absence of formal LTC services and systems, individuals seek care in the acute care medical system, which can increase health care costs while offering suboptimal care for older adults. People underestimate their need for LTC, even though many may require intensive support or institutional care that may exceed their income. Given the market failures of LTC insurance, public intervention is well-justified to meet this demand.
Download or read book Long term care financing written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2024-05-28 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This brief is the seventh in a series discussing long-term care financing in low- and middle-income settings. The focus is quality and value in long-term care.
Download or read book Long term care financing written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2024-04-29 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Financing Long Term Care in Europe written by J. Costa-Font and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forecasts predict that those in need of long-term care in Europe will double in the next 50 years. This book offers a full understanding of the institutional responses and mechanisms in place to finance old age and provides analysis of demand and supply factors underpinning the development of financial instruments to cover long-term care in Europe.
Download or read book Long Term Care written by Phyllis Shelton and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Financing of Long term Care written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance. Subcommittee on Health and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Long term care financing lessons for low and middle income settings Brief 4 Determining the long term care services covered in the benefits package written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2024-03-13 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Planning Ahead written by United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Health and Long Term Care Financing for Seniors written by Burton T. Beam and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook included an introduction to health care financing, employment-related medical expense coverage and provided a thorough analysis of the alternatives available for senior clients to finance medical and long-term care. Topics include consumer-directed health insurance plans for older clients, underwriting medical expense insurance and insuring the unhealthy, interim, supplemental, and ancillary medical expense insurance, medicare, medicare supplements, medicaid and veterans' benefits, the need for financing long-term care, caregivers and settings for long-term care, personal resources to meet long-term care needs, development of long-term care insurance, characteristics of individual long-term care insurance and the underwriting of long-term care insurance.
Download or read book Financing Long Term Care After Health Care Reform written by Richard L. Kaplan and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the many features of the 2010 health care legislation is a new entitlement program to fund long-term care called Community Living Assistance Services and Supports, or CLASS. Beginning possibly as early as January 2011, employees of participating employers will be automatically enrolled in CLASS's payroll-reduction plan and will become eligible for benefits after five years of continuous enrollment. These benefits will be calibrated by an enrollee's degree of impairment and may be applied to the full range of long-term care services, from paying relatives for family-provided care and modifying a personal residence to funding adult day care, assisted living facilities, and nursing homes. These benefits are provided as long as the recipient qualifies for them, without any limit as to duration or total dollars expended. This article examines the CLASS program and compares its various features to currently available long-term care insurance policies, focusing on benefit eligibility, enrollment procedures, scope of benefits, ease of acquisition, program solvency, premium stability, and other programmatic features as well.
Download or read book Serious and Unstable Condition written by Henry Aaron and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States spends more on health care than any other nation in the world, yet millions of Americans cannot afford basic care for acute illnesses, few are insured against the costs of long-term care, and many frequently used medical procedures have never been fully evaluated. The goals of controlling spiraling health care costs and extending insurance coverage or even maintaining current insurance coverage seem to be in conflict. But progress can be made on both goals if they are tacked together. Henry Aaron evaluates these critical issues and explores how adequate care can be provided without fueling inflation. Because the current arrangements for financing America's health care cannot endure, Aaron contends that a major national debate on the restructuring of the U.S. system of financing health care is inescapable, and major legislation is likely. Serious and Unstable Condition offers a guide that is crucial to understanding the reform debate. It explains the important economic issues of health care as a background for evaluating both the current system and proposals for change. Aaron compares the U.S. system of health care financing with certain foreign systems and reviews major options for reform. He cautions that unless the health insurance system is radically changed, the number of uninsured will continue to increase and costs will continue to escalate. He then offers his own comprehensive plan to address these problems.
Download or read book Long Term Care written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
