Long-Term Care: Consumers, Providers, and Financing

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Long-Term Care: Overview

The need for long-term care assistance affects people of all ages, not just elderly populations. Accordingly, this chart book provides relevant information on long-term care assistance for all people with disabilities, using a variety of state and federal data sources. Using this chart book, policymakers, researchers, advocates, and practitioners will be able to understand the scope of the long-term care system.

Information is organized into three major categories: consumers, providers, and financing.

CONSUMERS

Children and adults with disabilities all use long-term care services and are profiled in this chart book. Consumer profiles are organized by age of children, presence of mental retardation or developmental disability, age of adults. The chart book pays special attention to the aging population due to its growing impact on the demand for long-term care services.

PROVIDERS

Consumers receive long-term care services through a variety of community-based and institutional care providers. This chart book profiles services delivered by family and friends, or unpaid caregivers, as well as services delivered by paid home health care providers, adult day services programs, nursing homes, and assisted living facilities.

FINANCING

Sources of public and private spending on long-term care services include out-of-pocket spending and a variety of state and federal programs. This chart book specifically illustrates spending through Medicare,Medicaid and its waiver program for home- and community-based services, and private longterm care insurance.

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