By Larry Polivka (2011), prepared for the Department of Elder Affairs. Long-term Care (LTC) has slowly emerged as a public policy issue over the last several years, but has yet to achieve the level of visibility of issues such as the growing number of medically uninsured, or the fiscal sustainability of Medicare. The aging of […]
The Future of Long-Term Care and the Aging Network
By Larry Polivka and Jung Kwak. Originally published by Generations, the Journal of the American Society on Aging in 2014. Before concluding that proprietary organizations should provide LTC services, we should analyze the effectiveness of the existing community-based LTC system. Our long-term-care (LTC) system should be an asset in our efforts to build strong local and regional communities […]