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Care for Frail Elders
Developing Community Solutions
Walter N. Leutz, John A. Capitman, Margaret MacAdam, Ruby Abrahams
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Care for Frail Elders

Developing Community Solutions

Walter N. Leutz, John A. Capitman, Margaret MacAdam, Ruby Abrahams Walter N. Leutz, John A. Capitman, Margaret MacAdam, Ruby Abrahams

October 1992

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Leutz and his colleagues provide practical guidance for implementing a community-based program of care and present new analyses of the range of needs among the frail aged.

Leutz and his colleagues offer the most practice-oriented and realistic assessment of how chronically ill elders are being served at the community level. They analyze options and opportunities open to policy makers and practitioners relative to long-term care in the community environment where so many elders want to be. In the process, the authors evaluate the range of needs, the importance of gender and cultural differences, and the effectiveness of Medicare and Medicaid as entitlement strategies.

Community care constitutes a major gap in the nation's health-care system. The authors show that there are many persuasive reasons to build, staff, manage, and pay for high quality community-care systems. Such programs are demonstrated to be affordable and to meet better the needs of a large percentage of elders who require long-term care. The authors set forth goals for community-care systems and criteria for assessment. This timely analysis, coupled with practical, socially compelling recommendations, responds effectively to the realities of an aging population and the great public policy and related fiscal concerns.
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Foreword by James J. Callahan, Jr.
Introduction
What Is Long-Term Care and Who Needs It?
State Infrastructure for Long-Term Care: Criteria for Adequacy
Understanding and Measuring Quality of Care
Practice and Design Variations in Community Care Management
Home-Care Personnel Issues: The Hidden Challenge in Community Care
Aging Differently: Issues of Gender and Race
Program Benefits and Costs: What We Cover and How We Pay
Social Benefits and Costs: Public Responsibility for Community Care and How It Should Be Borne
Private Insurance Methods
National Medicaid and Medicare Strategies
Conclusion
Glossary
References
Index




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