Health Affairs April 24, 2019
Editor’s note: This post is being published in conjunction with the Health Affairs briefing“Health and Housing Needs for US Seniors in the “Middle Market” and the release of Health Affairs articles by Caroline Pearson and coauthors, Christopher Herbert and Jennifer Molinsky, and John Rowe and the Research Network on an Aging Society, as well as a second Health Affairs Blog post by Robert Kramer.
It’s amazing how little paid long-term care is delivered to the seven million older adults with moderate to high need for long-term supports and services. These are people who need help from someone else with at least one of the most basic life tasks, such as bathing, eating, or dressing. And yet only one-quarter are living...