Long-term care is a multi-faceted and broad area of health care. Navigating through the many confusing patient options-such as skilled nursing facilities, at home care, and assisted living facilities- can be difficult. Understanding the goals and abilities of CNAs, RNs, doctors, PAs, social workers and other direct care workers can be disorienting and confusing. This introduction to long-term care will help patients, families, and health care professionals understand the current structures and mechanisms of long-term care.
Overview
What is long-term care? Who are the people who need these services? The resources in this section provide a general description of long-term care services, their financing, and the people who use them.
Levels of Care
Who decides when an elderly person requires assisted living or nursing home care? What other options of care are available? This section will address these issues and provide information for clinicians and families on deciding how to care for an...
Long-term Care Workforce
The long-term care workforce consists of many levels of caring teams. Registered nurses (RNs), physicians' assistants (PAs), certified nursing assistants (CNAs), licensed nurse practitioners (LPNs) and many other direct care workers team up to provide...
Financing Long-term Care
Long-term care financing works at many different levels. Overarching governmental financing comes through programs such as Medicare and Medicaid, but there are also some state financing institutions and third party non-governmental financing options. ...
Trends in Aging
The composition of the United States population is aging. Discover how the trends in our aging society affect medicine, legislation, economics, and many other areas of life.
Glossary for Long-term Care
This is a glossary of terms, abbreviations, and governmental acronyms that you may encounter while working within the long-term care system.
Some of the terms and definitions are taken from CMS' Medicare Coverage of Skilled Nursing Facility Care...
Education in LTC
See Point of Care Resources for documents pertaining to curriculum design and teaching in the long-term care setting.
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