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 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 2024-03-12 with total page 11 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). Countries take a universal or selective approach, or some mix of the two, in identifying the population that will be covered under LTC programmes. Decisions are based on the economic and social contexts, and LTC is designed with consideration of the existing infrastructure for delivering health and social care. Universal approaches are grounded in the principle of ensuring equal access to health and social care. Selective approaches focus on those in greatest need, primarily those who are low-income. While selective approaches are perceived to cost less, the total costs may be offset by the high cost of implementing means-testing to identify beneficiaries. The selective approach may also result in high levels of unmet needs among people who do not meet the low-income thresholds. Mixed universal and selective approaches enable universal coverage for some services or populations and means-tested eligibility for others; thus, older people may face high payments for some needed services. Many LMICs have initiated mixed approaches to LTC, using public and private resources while building the policies, systems and infrastructure for universal coverage of LTC.
Download or read book Long term care financing lessons for low and middle income settings Brief 9 Supporting workers in the formal long term care system written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2024-09-03 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This brief is the ninth in a series discussing long-term care financing in low- and middle-income settings. The focus is workers in the formal long-term care system.
Download or read book Long term care financing lessons for low and middle income settings Brief 3 How countries finance long term care written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2024-03-13 with total page 13 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 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 2024-04-29 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Long term care financing written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Long term care financing written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2024-05-31 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Long Term Care Services in the United States 2013 Overview written by National Center for Health Statistics and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long-term care services include a broad range of services that meet the needs of frail older people and other adults with functional limitations. Long-Term care services provided by paid, regulated providers are a significant component of personal health care spending in the United States. This report presents descriptive results from the first wave of the National Study of Long-Term Care Providers (NSLTCP), which was conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Preventions National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). This report provides information on the supply, organizational characteristics, staffing, and services offered by providers of long-term care services; and the demographic, health, and functional composition of users of these services. Service users include residents of nursing homes and residential care communities, patients of home health agencies and hospices, and participants of adult day services centers.
Download or read book The Financing and Delivery of Long term Care Services written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Federalism and Health Policy written by Alan Weil and published by The Urban Insitute. This book was released on 2003 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The balance between state and federal health care financing for low-income people has been a matter of considerable debate for the last 40 years. Some argue for a greater federal role, others for more devolution of responsibility to the states. Medicaid, the backbone of the system, has been plagued by an array of problems that have made it unpopular and difficult to use to extend health care coverage. In recent years, waivers have given the states the flexibility to change many features of their Medicaid programs; moreover, the states have considerable flexibility to in establishing State Children's Health Insurance Programs. This book examines the record on the changing health safety net. How well have states done in providing acute and long-term care services to low-income populations? How have they responded to financial incentives and federal regulatory requirements? How innovative have they been? Contributing authors include Donald J. Boyd, Randall R. Bovbjerg, Teresa A. Coughlin, Ian Hill, Michael Housman, Robert E. Hurley, Marilyn Moon, Mary Beth Pohl, Jane Tilly, and Stephen Zuckerman.
Download or read book Long term Care Planning Guide the Consumer Resource for Long term Care Financing written by Phyllis R. Shelton and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Health Care Utilization as a Proxy in Disability Determination written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2018-04-02 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Social Security Administration (SSA) administers two programs that provide benefits based on disability: the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program and the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program. This report analyzes health care utilizations as they relate to impairment severity and SSA's definition of disability. Health Care Utilization as a Proxy in Disability Determination identifies types of utilizations that might be good proxies for "listing-level" severity; that is, what represents an impairment, or combination of impairments, that are severe enough to prevent a person from doing any gainful activity, regardless of age, education, or work experience.
Download or read book Financing long term services and supports written by Joshua Wiener and published by RTI Press. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This article provides an overview of financing for long-term services and supports (LTSS) in the United States, paying special attention to how it has changed and not changed over the last 30 years. Although LTSS expenditures have increased greatly (like the rest of health care), the broad outline of the financing system has remained remarkably constant. Medicaid—a means-tested program—continues to dominate LTSS financing, while private long-term care insurance plays a minor role. High out-of-pocket costs and spend-down to Medicaid because of those high costs continue to be hallmarks of the system. Although many major LTSS financing reform proposals were introduced over this period, none was enacted—except the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports Act, which was repealed before implementation because of concerns about adverse selection. The one major change during this time period has been the very large increase in Medicare spending for post-acute services, such as short-term skilled nursing facility and home health care. With the aging of the population, demand for LTSS is likely to increase, placing strain on the existing system.
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 Financing Long Term Care Needs written by and published by America's Health Insurance Plans. This book was released on 2005 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
