title: Financing long-term care for elderly persons: what are the options?
abstract: Faced with the growing elderly population, the United States is forced to address the financing of long-term care for elderly persons. Long-term care is currently financed through private payments, long-term care insurance, Medicaid, and Medicare. Because of concern over the large amount of private and public funding of long-term care, various groups have suggested alternatives to the current approach to long-term care financing. The alternatives include social insurance and joint private-public arrangements.
authors.affiliation: Health Information Systems Division, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, Philadelphia, USA.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Amaradio
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D006295:Health Resources; D006299:Health Services for the Aged / Q000191:economics*; D006801:Humans; D007353:Insurance, Long-Term Care / Q000191:economics*; D008484:Medicaid; D006278:Medicare; D014481:United States