Long-Term Care

  • Read more: Telehealth and the Future of Long-Term Care

    Telehealth and the Future of Long-Term Care

    Telehealth may be the missing key needed to shift the pendulum to providing sustainable, affordable, high-quality, and safe long-term care in the home.

    Senior citizen woman in wheelchair in a nursing home.
  • Read more: Risk and Reform of Long-Term Care

    Risk and Reform of Long-Term Care

    By Allison Hoffman [Cross-posted from Health Affairs Blog] The 50th Anniversary of Medicare and Medicaid offers an opportunity to reflect on how U.S. social policy has conceived of the problem of long-term care. Social insurance programs aim to create greater security—typically financial security—for American families (See Note 1). Programs for long-term care, however, have had mixed…