Question

Please compose a research paper of 3-5 pages (not including cover and references) about the future trends of Long Term Care in the next 10 years.

Hypothesize, how YOU think Long Term Care will be like in 2025 and support your theory with facts.

What trends do you think would develop to face the future challenges? What regulations will be established?

What laws will possibly be eliminated or reinforce if any?

In your paper, include all aspects of long term care such as SNF, Assisted Living, Home Care, Adult Day Care and Insurance Long term care reimbursement both private and public.

Answer 1

Providers are changing their culture to resident-centered care models..build an environment designed to meet their wellness,emotional,intellectual,physical,environmental,social,occupational and spiritual..
Cohousing is a tupe of house promotes social contact and individual space,although it is not technically one,but neighbourhood design practice to bring the resident directed care..It will promote individual sence of community by adding outdoor common spaces..
Small house design(only 10bed)will bring more home like settings..it will be more in future with lot of competing .Partnership with organization in community improve quality of care in long-term facilites places f.Allowing or this support relationshipin home nursing resources for insurance and medical assistance and transportation services..providing green practices in lon-term care facility can increase the energy and meaningful to the lives of their residents..residents directed program like plantation will promote their activities..implement cost-effective energy efficiency with state wide programs..stakeholders and gerontology experts must review long-term care design..Life safety code is widely used source for safety strategies throughout the life cycle work closely with authority having jurisdiction for attractive incentives plan for better care..
   one of the goal for the state to prevent inappropriate institutional care by providing for community based,home based care or other forms of less incentive care..The social securing Amendment of title 20 covered services for all ages not just the elderly..It is providing relatively small amount for LTC services.coverage for having home care from LTC insurance increased now..In future elderly population get benefit from private LTC coverage has a lower average income than the general population..If the infrastructure for delivery is inadequate many people have to do without services if they need..With agingthe uses for all types health care services increases not only LTC..LTc service medicare and medicaid programs cover all health care services in future..There are positive trends in the health of older Americans..policy makers will be continue to provide cost effective LTC services..policies promote community-based care and LTC system..meidcaid and medicare administrators have been concerned for future to rising expenditures while the public is not enough to pay more taxes..
   Protect older adults from crime, and promote leisure activity can improve health and activity among them..prevention measures for smoking,obesity,diabetes and promote balanced diet,vaccinations for communicable disease can be provided..Fall prevention programs is to prevent high medical cost,disability,physical impact to reduce quality of life..Health information technology must interoperate the care for hospitals,nursing homes,adult day care,home health agencies..in fure long term care will be interoperable elcetronic health records..HIT must remove the elder isolation in seniors and care given by electronically social networks and omline training for care givers..