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Long-term care challenges for an aging America
— improving technology and changing the system's culture as critical parts of the solution | | Author(s) | Robert A Applebaum, Jane Straker |
| Journal title | Public Policy & Aging Report, vol 15, no 4, Fall 2005 |
| Publisher | National Academy on an Aging Society, Fall 2005 |
| Pages | pp 1-7 |
| Source | http://www.agingsociety.org |
| Keywords | Services ; Long term ; Assistive technology ; Information technology ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Providing ongoing services and supports to individuals experiencing chronic disability has become one of the the greatest challenges facing American domestic policymakers. Because most long-term care services are administered, financed and regulated at state level, in many ways, long-term care has become very much a state issue. In many states, the problems associated with the provision of long-term care are among the top issues faced by government; and all evidence suggests that without major changes, the current approach will not work in the future. In introducing the theme of this issue of Public Policy & Aging Report, "Emerging paradigms in long-term care", the authors document current and expected challenges faced by the long-term care system. They suggest potential opportunities for improving the current approach through innovative changes in the culture of service provision and through the use of technology to alter how assistance is currently conceptualised and provided. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-060313219 A |
| Classmark | I: 4Q: M: UVB: 7T |
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