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Long-term home health care: what are the costs of care and costs of failure to give care? — selected article from PRIDE Institute's 14th Annual Conference of October 12, 1995, "Society's abandonment of the frail elderly: true or false?"
Author(s)	Carol Rodat, Jim Zadoorian
Journal title	The Journal of Long Term Home Health Care : the PRIDE Institute Journal, vol 15, no 1, Winter 1996
Pages	pp 30-46
Keywords	Health services ; Long term ; Costs [care] ; Public expenditure ; Conference proceedings ; United States of America.
Annotation	Debate about Medicare and Medicaid entitlement in the US has been not so much about who will carry older people's costs of care, but whether costs can be carried at all. This paper examines financial and political pressures, and frail older people's dependence on entitlement. Evidence is presented that losses in services resulting from decreased entitlement outlays are offset by managed care and competitive market forces. It would seem that American society has considered reform only in terms of economics leading to financial abandonment of a predominantly low-income population, rather than undertaking the responsibility to care for its own aged. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-980129203 A
Classmark	L: 4Q: QDC: WN8: 6M: 7T
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