Emerging trends in the finance and delivery of long-term care: public and private opportunities and challenges.
A number of key trends are emerging in long-term care related to financing, new models of service delivery, and shifts in consumer expectations and preferences. Taken together, changes occurring in these areas point to a rapidly transforming long-term care landscape. Financing responsibility is shifting away from the federal government to states, individuals, and their families; providers are integrating and managing acute and long-term care services and adding new services to the continuum of care; and consumers are thinking more seriously about how to plan and pay for their future care needs, as well as how to independently navigate the long-term care system.
Cohen
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LifePlans, Inc., Waltham, MA 02154, USA. mcohen@lifeplansinc.com
D003256:Community Participation; D003266:Continuity of Patient Care; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000191:economics* / Q000639:trends; D006801:Humans; D007353:Insurance, Long-Term Care; D008134:Long-Term Care / Q000191:economics* / Q000639:trends; D008329:Managed Care Programs / Q000191:economics; D014481:United States