HSA 3222 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Baby Boomers, Chronic Care, Long-Term Care
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Nursing home, community-based home care agencies, government-run mental health institutions, assisted living, subacute care, etc. Advertising used to be considered a bad form for health care systems. Now, providers engage in advertising by utilizing all available tools. Increasingly experience the need to operate in high efficient and cost effective manner. Rapid changes resulted in lack of preparation for providers. Cannot remain aloof from rest of the system. Must be prepared to deal with unpredictable changes. Chronic care and long term care generally used interchangeably. Extended care was commonly used to describe long term care. Defined as people requiring health care, personal care, social, and supportive services over a period of time. Resources took the form of almshouses or poor farms. People qualified more due to poverty than illness. Government had very little involvement in health care. Only appeared when private resources were not found. Long term care was in the form of asylums.
