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Long-Term Care: Policy and Reimbursement

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This chapter is designed to acquaint geriatric practitioners with that amorphous field referred to as long-term care. The term confuses as much as it clarifies. As with many such labels, it is defined by exclusion; in this case, it implies a distinction from the acute services that are available in a hospital and in physicians’ offices. However, the division is not clear. For instance, when a patient who is receiving long-term care (e. g., in a nursing home) has an acute illness, is the care considered acute or long-term? Such questions become relevant only when they affect the care that is available or the resources to pay for it. As will be discussed in this chapter, these are both major issues for long-term care.

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  1. Department of Geriatrics, Mt. Sinai Medical Center, 1 Gustave Levy Place, New York, New York, 10029, USA

    Christine K. Cassel M.D.

  2. Section of Geriatric Medicine, Veterans Administration Medical Center, Portland, Oregon, 97201, USA

    John Richard Walsh M.D.

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Kane, R.L. (1984). Long-Term Care: Policy and Reimbursement. In: Cassel, C.K., Walsh, J.R. (eds) Geriatric Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5232-0_27

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