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2. Long-term care - Wikipedia

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   Long-term care. Long-term care (LTC) is a variety of services which help meet both the medical and non-medical needs of people with a chronic illness or disability who cannot care for themselves for long periods. Long-term care is focused on individualized and coordinated services that promote independence, maximize patients' quality of life ...

3. Home care in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Home care aims to make it possible for people to remain at home rather than use residential, long-term, or institutional-based nursing care. Non-medical in-home care is also called companion care or unskilled care. It is a valuable service for seniors in need of household help, social interaction, or transportation to appointments.

4. Assisted living - Wikipedia

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   An assisted living residence or assisted living facility (ALF) is a housing facility for people with disabilities or for adults who cannot or who choose not to live independently. The term is popular in the United States. Still, the setting is similar to a retirement home, in the sense that facilities provide a group living environment and ...

5. Group home - Wikipedia

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   A group home, congregate living facility, care home (the latter especially in British English and Australian English), adult family home, etc., is a structured and supervised residence model that provides assisted living and medical care for those with complex health needs. Traditionally, the model has been used for children or young people who ...

6. This Single Cost Is Sending American Families Into ‘Financial ...

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   “Individuals 65 or older have an almost 70% chance of needing some type of long-term care service or support, and while the average cost of long-term care for one person is $180,000, that doesn ...

7. Managed care - Wikipedia

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   t. e. The term managed care or managed healthcare is used in the United States to describe a group of activities intended to reduce the cost of providing health care and providing American health insurance while improving the quality of that care ("managed care techniques"). It has become the predominant system of delivering and receiving ...