It Shouldn't Be This Way: The Failure of Long-Term Care
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press | ISBN: 0826514871 | edition 2005 | PDF | 200 pages | 2.21 mb
The failure of long-term care is the country’s best-kept embarrassing secret. Almost every adult in the United States will either enter a nursing home or have to deal with a parent or other relative who does. Studies show that 40 percent of all adults who live to age sixty-five will enter a nursing home before they die, while even more will use another form of long-term care.