Long Term Care of the Elderly: Public Policy Issues

by Carroll L. Estes, Robert J. Newcomer, Charlene Harrington

Book Overview

This book is both an introduction to the existing literature on long term care issues, and an empirical assessment of policies (in the USA) to date. Its focus is primarily on state policies and the broad discretion of states in the implementation of health, income, and social service programmes that represent the essential basis of long term care for the elderly. It will help to provide a greater understanding of current public policies and their...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803922140
• ISBN13: 9780803922143
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.