Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2015
Abstract
The Fiftieth Anniversary of Medicare and Medicaid offers an opportunity to reflect on how American social policy has conceived of the problem of long-term care. In this essay, based on a longer forthcoming article, I argue that current policies adopt too narrow a conception of long-term care risk, by focusing on the effect of serious illness and disability on people who need care and not on the friends and family who often provide it. I propose a more complete view of long-term care risk that acknowledges how illness and disability reverberates through communities, posing insecurity for people beyond those in need of care.
Keywords
long-term care, health, health care, Medicare, Medicaid
Publication Title
Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law & Ethics
Repository Citation
Hoffman, Allison K., "The Reverberating Risk of Long-Term Care" (2015). All Faculty Scholarship. 1885.
https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/faculty_scholarship/1885
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Publication Citation
15 Yale J. Health Pol'y L. & Ethics 1 (2015)