Elder Care Long Term Care

Long-term assistance requires specially trained doctors, nurses, nurses’ and physicians’ assistants, social workers, health aides.

Advocates of including long-term care services in health reform usually focus on two issues: How many Medicaid dollars should be spent on home care and whether to create a national long-term care insurance program, such as Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., has proposed in his CLASS Act. But neither of those reforms would mean much without [...]