Long-Term Care: The Involvement of the Government and the Future of Integrated Care

Advances in medical and preventive care extended the average life expectancy of the American population. Due to this expansion, more and more people need long-term care. Long-term care is the provision of extensive support and health services to people with various chronic diseases and disorders for over 90 days. This will extend the age range from infants to the elderly, but for the purposes of this article my focus is on aging population.

How is care coordinated or integrated with emergency care services and long-term care services? In this integration, care conflicts frequently occur between "medical" models and "social" models focused on treatment of customers' medical needs, but the "social" model consists of customer social and individual We focus on responding to needs. In the future, we will achieve a more comprehensive and comprehensive view of medical services, coordinate service offering services, adopt more flexible coverage, and facilitate the management of prophylactic and emergency medical services within specific systems Establish a mechanism to. Since incentives for long-term care capital provision systems are consistent with their goals (Knickman and McCall, 1986), interest in managed care services that may play a role in facilitating service integration is rising . Sports is also considered a more aggressive consumer engagement -

Governments around the world have responded to increasing long-term care needs at varying degrees and at various levels. These responses from the government are partly due to the public policy research agenda on long-term care, including a special census, a flexible service model, and a managed care model to manage rising costs and high individual payout rates It is based. Most Western European countries have established mechanisms to fund formal medical care and in some Northern Europe and continental Europe countries at least partly to fund informal medical care There is an arrangement of. In 1967 the Netherlands passed the Special Medical Cost Act (ABWZ), and in 1988 Norway established informal care workers (in some cases it became municipal officials). Municipal payment framework