Long Term Care WisdomCard™
Our Guides and Physician Review team have organized the Top 10 Health Resources on Long Term Care and compiled helpful research notes below.
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- 2009 Cost of Care: Long Term Care Survey - Genworth Financial - USA (2 nominations)www.genworth.com
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Research Notes on Long Term Care
Long term care is the medical or non-medical care to people who have a chronic illness or disability that helps them to meet their personal and health needs. At least 70 percent of people over age 65 will require some long-term care services at some point in their lives.
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Fast Facts:
- Medicare and private health insurance programs do not pay for the majority of long-term care services.
- About 9 million Americans over the age of 65 need long-term care services.
- The average costs of long term care in the U.S. varies from $61 to $181 per day.
Top 5 Headlines on Long Term Care
Types of Long Term Care
- Medicare.gov: Long Term Care Choices
- Ohio Health Care Association: Types of Long Term Care Services
- Mayo Clinic: Long term health care
- WebMD: Types of Long-term Care
- AARP: Housing Choices
What Does Long Term Care Cost?
- National Clearninghouse for Long Term Care Information: Cost of Long-Term Care
- Medicare.org: Paying For Long-Term Care
- Wikipedia: Long term care insurance
- American Health Care Association: Paying for Long Term Care
- CNN Money: Long Term Care Calculator
Blogs, Message Boards and Personal Experiences With Long Term Care
- Blog Long Term Care: Long Term Care for Elders
- Caringly Yours: Journal About Long Term Care
- Seniors Site: Long-Term Care Insurance Forum
- Free Advice.com: Disability & Long Term Care Insurance
- Moore's Lore: The Tao of Long-Term Care
About this WisdomCard
- Contributor: Jacky Gamble
- Reviewer: Tara Salamone
- Supervised by: The OrganizedWisdom Physician Review Team
- Last update: Oct. 15, 2009
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Meet our contributors and reviewers
- Contributor: Jacky Gamble
- Reviewer: Tara Salamone
- Supervised by: The OrganizedWisdom Physician Review Team
- Redirects: Longterm Care, Longtermcare, Long-term Care, Long-termcare
- Last update: Oct. 7, 2008
Each WisdomCard is handcrafted by our team of physician-guided health advocates. Our goal is to make it easy for you to find the most useful health resources for any health topic by filtering out spam and bad links.
