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Long-term care
— federal, state, and private options for the future | | Author(s) | Raymond C O'Brien, Michael T Flannery |
| Publisher | Haworth Press, New York, 1997 |
| Pages | 290 pp |
| Source | The Haworth Press, 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, New York 13904-1580, USA. |
| Keywords | Services ; Health services ; Organisation of care ; Finance [care] ; Costs [care] ; Policy ; Health insurance ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | This book examines the current financing and provision of long-term care in the United States (US), focusing on recent state and federal legal developments. Chapter one provides an introduction to long-term care in the US, focusing on Medicaid and Medicare provisions. Chapter two and three examine Medicaid's provisions both on a federal and state level, and discusses Medicaid eligibility, focusing on the issue of "spend-down", that is, transfer of assets in order to qualify for Medicaid assistance. Chapter four describes some state disincentives for Medicaid spend-down, such as estate recovery programmes. In chapter six, initiatives taken by individual states to balance needs and costs of long-term care are outlined. The final chapter looks at future possibilities of financing and planning of long-term care in the US, including national health insurance, long-term care insurance, and integrated planning. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980505209 B |
| Classmark | I: L: P: QC: QDC: QAD: WPG: 7T |
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