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The Future of Long-Term Care for the Chronically Ill |
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Consumers want a range of services and care available for them if and when they may need them. They want long-term care that addresses six areas of concern to them: community-based services, continuity, coordination, caring, convenience, and cost. To develop new perspectives and new ways of providing the needed long-term care services, it is time for health care leaders to work cooperatively with consumers to redesign long-term care, both community-based and institutional care. Consumers and consumer advocates, working cooperatively with health care leaders, could reinvent home health care, nursing home care, and other long term care services such as “aging in place” for older people.
Key Words: caring, community-based services, continuity, convenience, coordination, cost Rantz, M.J., Marek, K.D., and Zwygart-Stauffacher, M. (2000). The future of long-term care for the chronically ill. Nursing Administration Quarterly, 25(1), 51-58. |