BACKGROUND Infection prevention and control (IPC) is a critical, although often neglected, part of long-term care (LTC) management. Little is known about what IPC resources are available for LTC and how that impacts patient care and safety. METHODS One hundred eighty-eight LTC facilities were randomly selected out of all British Columbia facilities and surveyed using a validated survey tool. ...

Many countries have been working on revising their long-term care (LTC) policies to meet the increasing demand for care. Generally, little attention is paid potential (unintended) consequences of LTC inequality among users or informal caregivers. Saraceno previously explicitly argued that differences in use and provision depend type policy, with contrasting can be implemented at same time. We c...

Introduction and background: Receiving long-term care (LTC) in old age is still widely associated with a definite and dead-end situation. For this reason preventive and rehabilitative measures for older people already in need of continuous care have not yet been perceived or treated as health policy issues of great importance. The data for this presentation and case description are based on nat...

BACKGROUND Hong Kong's rapidly ageing population, characterised by one of the longest life expectancies and the lowest fertility rate in the world, is likely to drive long-term care (LTC) expenditure higher. This study aims to identify key cost drivers and derive quantitative estimates of Hong Kong's LTC expenditure to 2036. METHODS We parameterised a macro actuarial simulation with data from...

Introduction: AGE-Platform, a European Network of 148 older people’s not for profit organizations at national, regional and EU levels, includes both users and service providers (www.age-platform.org). It is concerned with all policies and practices at EU and national levels affecting older people, including those needing long-term care. Human rights and the avoidance of abuse; service adequacy ...

The four main models of long-term care (LTC) for older people in Taiwan are institutional care, community and home-based care, live-in migrant care and family care. This study aims to examine the factors associated with the four above-mentioned LTC models, using the Andersen model as its framework for analysis. Data were from the 2005 National Taiwanese Health Interview Survey (n = 30,680), and...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to obtain a profile of individuals with private long-term care (LTC) insurance as they begin using paid LTC services and track their patterns of service use, satisfaction with services and insurance, claims denial rates, and transitions over a 28-month period. DESIGN AND METHODS Ten LTC insurance companies contributed a random sample of 1,474 qualified in...

BACKGROUND Performance indicators in the long term care sector are important to evaluate the efficiency and quality of care delivery. We are, however, still far from being able to refer to a common set of indicators at the European level.We therefore demonstrate the calculation of Long Term Care Facility Quality Indicators (LTCFQIs) from data of the European Services and Health for Elderly in L...

INTRODUCTION Making change towards child and family-based and coordinated services is critical to improve quality, outcomes and value. The Let's Talk about Children (LTC) approach, which consists of brief psychoeducational discussions with parents of kindergarten-aged and school-aged children, has been launched as a municipality-specific programme in the Council of Oulu Region. The aim of this ...