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White
House Panel Warns of Aging Crisis
Nation Is Unprepared to Deal With Care of
Elderly, President's Council says. The report
warned that the number of health workers
qualified to deliver long-term care is dropping
even as the number of elderly persons
rises.
Helping You Choose Quality Long-Term
Care
Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare
Organizations
Nursing Home, Group Home, Assisted Living
Home, Your Home? What setting comes to mind when you
hear “long-term care”? Any or all of these are
settings where assistance can be provided to support
activities of daily living.
Long-term care can be described simply as
the medical and personal services people receive when
they're no longer able to care for themselves. Sometimes
called "custodial care," the term refers to the services
people require when they can no longer perform
"activities of daily living" — such as eating, dressing,
using the bathroom, or moving from a bed to a chair — by
themselves. That need can arise suddenly, due to injury
or chronic illness, or gradually, due to physical or
cognitive decline. Whatever the reason, services are
intended to maintain the patient, rather than to cure
the condition. Excerpt from
The Long-Term Care Puzzle, Harvard Magazine.
Choosing Long-Term Care
Long-term care services are those
provided by nursing facilities that offer 24-hour
nursing or rehabilitative care. Long-term care centers
are known as nursing homes, skilled nursing facilities,
or long-term care facilities and provide both short-term
and residential care. Typically, a resident who needs
continuing care following an acute episode uses the
rehabilitative and nursing services found in these
settings. Many residents in these settings have
discharge goals to other settings, such as to home or to
an assisted living community. See
Helping You Choose Quality Long Term Care for
information and checklists about choosing long-term
care.
“Nursing Home Care” is often associated
with long-term care.
Nursing Home Compare includes information only on
nursing homes that are Medicare or Medicaid certified.
These nursing homes provide skilled nursing care;
however, there are many other types of facilities that
provide various levels of health care and assistance
with activities of daily living. Many of these
facilities are licensed only at the state level. In
addition, some nursing homes that provide a full range
of care, including skilled nursing services, choose not
to participate in Medicare or Medicaid. For information
about any facility not found in the Nursing Home Compare
database, please contact your State survey agency. The
phone number for the State survey agency in your area
can be found in the
Helpful Contacts section of this website.
Long-Term Care Resources
Send your favorite sites to Jill Darrington, A Better Way Coalition.
If you find a dead site - let us know!
AARP Research Center, Free reports on regional and
national long-term care issues.
AARP Health and Long-Term Care Innovations
A Guide for Families: Having The Conversation About
Long-Term Care
Alzheimer Society, Assessing a Long-Term Care
Facility.
American Medical Directors Association, Managing
Depression in Long-Term Care.
Assisted Living Federation of America, Consumer
resources.
Consumer
Consortium on Assisted Living
ElderLawAnswers.com, Articles, cost calculators, a
glossary, and state-by-state information about long-term
care.
Family Caregiver Alliance, Between home and nursing
home.
Hospice in Long Term Care
Idaho Bureau of Facility Standards, Filing a
facility complaint.
Idaho Department of Health and Welfare Facility
Standards, Long Term Care (scroll to bottom of
page.)
Idaho Health Care Association, Public Information.
Long-Term Care Insurance Knowledge Center, A primer
prepared by New York State Office for the Aging offers
information useful to residents of any state.
Long-Term Care Living, Information on assisted
living and other care options; glossary of long-term
care insurance terms.
Medicare, Federal government’s official Medicare
information site; click on “Long-Term Care”.
Milbank Memorial Fund, Long-Term Care for the
Elderly with Disabilities.
National Association for Regulatory Administration,
Monitoring Adult Residential Care.
Nursing Homes and Long Term Care, Story about
Cynthia.
Palliative Care in Nursing Homes
PBS Before I Die, Mary and Warren, coping with long
term illness.
Social Care Institute for Excellence, Terminal care
in care homes.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Eldercare
Locator
Searchable site helps visitors find local
service providers. To receive similar assistance by
telephone, call 800-677-1116.
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