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Long-term care
Long-term care (LTC) is a variety of services which help meet both the medical and non-medical needs of people with a chronic illness or disability who cannot care for themselves for long periods. Long-term care is focused on individualized and coordinated services that promote independence, maximize patients' quality of life, and meet patients' needs over a period of time.[1]
It is common for long-term care to provide custodial and non-skilled care, such as assisting with activities of daily living like dressing, feeding, using the bathroom, meal preparation, functional transfers and safe restroom use.[2] Increasingly, long-term care involves providing a level of medical care that requires the expertise of skilled practitioners to address the multiple long-term conditions associated with older populations. Long-term care can be provided at home, in the community, in assisted living facilities or in nursing homes. Long-term care may be needed by people of any age, although it is a more common need for senior citizens.[3]
- ^ Shi L, Singh D (December 8, 2015). Essentials of the U.S. Health Care System (4th ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning. p. 232. ISBN 978-1284100556.
- ^ Kernisan L. "Activities of Daily Living: What Are ADLs and IADLs?". Caring. Retrieved 16 October 2015.
- ^ Herbermann JD, Miranda D (January 2012). "Defusing the demographic "time-bomb" in Germany". Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 90 (1): 6–7. doi:10.2471/BLT.12.020112. PMC 3260585. PMID 22271957.
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