How to Get the Government to Finance Long-Term Care

There are alternatives to nursing homes for senior citizens, and it is often possible to create care plans that keep older people in the community by caring for them in their homes. Medicare home-care and nursing-home benefits are much too limited to provide a complete solution to the health care ne...

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Published in:Advisor today 1991-08, Vol.86 (8), p.150
Main Author: Strauss, Peter J
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Institutionalization
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Medicaid
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Nursing care
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Older people
Planning
Target markets
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