Health Sciences 2711A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Continuing Care Retirement Communities In The United States, Palliative Care, Chronic Care

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 2711A/B
• Professor: Stephen Lin

Document Summary

Chapter 4 the evolution of continuing care for older adults. Introduction: formal care services = continuing care, variation in service provision, policies, and terminology, because there"s not a lot of. In terms of continuing care, long-term care facilities, and group homes emerged from the early institutions for the destitute and disabled, influenced by the. Increasing alarm has been expressed about the sustainability of our health care system: even though % of gdp spending hasn"t increased by a lot. Aging chapters 4 and 5 textbook notes: spending disease , authors argue that it requires the following remedies, a sharp reduction in public services other than health care provided by governments, especially provincial governments. Increased taxes to finance the public share of health care spending. Discussion: social policy and economic policy are interrelated, decision to exclude certain services is still with us today, not making them insured, structural arrangements.