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The long-term care crisis : elders trapped in the no-care zone
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- Creator
- Carroll L. Estes, James H. Swan and Associates
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- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- Newbury Park, Ca. : Sage Publications, [1993]
- ©1993
- Physical Details
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- xxiii, 328 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780803939929, 0803939922, 9780803939936, 0803939930
- OCLC
- ocm26673626
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Pt. I. Overview. 1. Prospective Payment Revolution and Long Term Care. 2. Restructuring of the Nonprofit Sector -- Pt. II. From Hospital to Community. 3. Discharge Planners as Gatekeepers to Community Care. 4. Does Out of the Hospital Mean Out of Luck? 5. Service Paradox -- Pt. III. Home Health and Nursing Home Care. 6. Metamorphosis of Home Health Care. 7. Nursing Homes Under Prospective Payment. 8. Access to Nursing Home and Home Health Services -- Pt. IV. Elder Care and the Community. 9. Informalization and Community Care. 10. Access in Peril. 11. Community Variation in Policy Implementation. 12. Waves of Change -- Pt. V. The Future. 13. Policy Elites and Fiscal Crisis. 14. Empowerment Imperative. 15. No-Care Zone and Social Policy -- Appendix: Policy Changes Affecting Home Health Care, 1961 to 1990
Subjects
- Community health services for older people -- Economic aspects -- United States.
- Older people -- Long-term care -- Government policy -- United States.
- Older people -- Long-term care -- Economic aspects -- United States.
- Older people -- Medical care -- Government policy -- United States.
- Older people -- Medical care -- Economic aspects -- United States.
- Hospitals -- Prospective payment -- Social aspects -- United States.