Data for long-term care planning by Health Systems Agencies.

Should health systems agencies be involved in environmental health planning?

Public Law 93-641 provides health systems agencies (HSAs) with a broad planning preview which has enabled a number of agencies to address environmental health issues in their health systems plans. Opponents of HSA involvement in environmental health planning charge that these activities overextend agency resources, duplicate efforts of other government agencies and involve HSAs in "issues of pu...

Strategic planning for long-term care providers.

"~| ong-term care providers arc often L I reluctant to get involved in strategic planning because they tear that errors faa««ffi in such plans could lead to die facility's ruin. However, strategic planning experts at the recent annual mee t ing of the American Association of Homes for the Aging urged longterm care providers to aggressively pursue such plans for their facilities. To begin establ...

Long-Term Health Care

The Evolution of Long-term Care Programs; Comment on “Financing Long-term Care: Lessons From Japan”

The need for long-term care (LTC) represents a “new social risk,” one that overlaps with and complements systems of care that pre-date such programs, complicating LTC program design. This commentary expands on Ikegami’s discussion of how these structural factors must be accommodated, as well as historical and cultural factors that influence public expectations of such a...

Financing Long-Term Care: Lessons From Japan

Long-term care (LTC) must be carefully delineated when expenditures are compared across countries because how LTC services are defined and delivered differ in each country. LTC’s objectives are to compensate for functional decline and mitigate the care burden of the family. Governments have tended to focus on the poor but Germany opted to make LTC universally available ...