By Larry Polivka (2014) Introduction The ethical implications of health inequalities among racial, ethnic socio-economic groups and along gender and age lines have been gaining increasing attention over the last several years. Much of this attention has focused on the question of when do inequalities in health care and health status become inequities that must […]
Neoliberal Long-Term Care: From Community to Corporate Control
By Larry Polivka and Baozhen Luo. Originally published by the Gerontological Society of America in 2017. Abstract Publicly (mainly Medicaid) funded long-term care (LTC) services have evolved from a nursing home dominated system of service to a much more balanced system including home- and community-based services (HCBS) programs over the last 30 years. The HCBS […]