Question

demonstrate understanding of the current state of the LTC system

Answer 1

Ans) Long-term services and supports" (LTSS) is the modernized term for community services, which may obtain health care financing (e.g., home and community-based Medicaid waiver services), and may or may not be operated by the traditional hospital-medical system (e.g., physicians, nurses, nurse's aides).

- The Consortium of Citizens with Disabilities (CCD) which works with the U. S. Congress, has indicated that while hospitals offer acute care, many non-acute, long-term services are provided to assist individuals to live and participate in the community.

- An example is the group home international emblem of community living and deinstitutionalization, and the variety of supportive services (e.g., supported housing, supported employment, supported living, supported parenting, family support), supported education.

- The projected growth in the number of persons with disabilities, coupled with the changing composition of the population, presents significant challenges.

- While this growth will test the capacity of our LTC system, the heterogeneity of disabled individuals and their LTC needs call forth our creativity to develop service delivery and financing systems that reflect preferences of individuals with disabilities and their families, respond to both common and diverse service needs, and effectively link informal caregivers to formal care providers.

& - To do so in a manner that assures access to and quality of services in the current fiscally constrained environment will require considerable effort, creativity, and patience. Yet efforts currently under development by providers in collaboration with foundations and public sponsors offer the prospect of new approaches to meeting these challenges effectively.