Shared Homes as an Alternative to Nursing Home Care: Impact of VA’s Medical Foster Home Program on Hospitalization

[Medical care in the nursing home].

The introduction of the German mandatory long-term care insurance in 1995 has led to major changes in the delivery of medical services in nursing homes. This is a result of the assessment process, the demographic changes, modified access to facilities and the changing socioeconomic resources of informal caregivers. The fusion of the health care and long-term care insurance system is now being p...

Nursing home care: an introduction.

Practicing nursing home medicine can be both rewarding and challenging. Nursing homes provide a low overhead, flexible, self-designed practice setting with varied, complex patients. With recent changes in the health care system, nursing homes have become places of increasing medical acuity, and are no longer only places of long term residential care. Increasing efforts by Centers for Medicare a...

Augmented home nursing as an alternative to hospital care for chronic elderly invalids.

A scheme of augmented home care for disabled elderly invalids is compared with long-stay hospital care. Initial results suggest that selected patients may be suitable for home care if they can be left unsupervised at night or if a relative is available to provide supervision. The cost of such care is in most cases cheaper than keeping the patient in hospital, and schemes such as this might redu...

The Impact of Medical and Nursing Home Expenses on Savings

We consider a life-cycle model with idiosyncratic risk in earnings, out-of-pocket medical and nursing home expenses, and survival. Partial insurance is available through welfare, Medicaid, and social security. Calibrating the model to the United States we show that savings for old-age, out-of-pocket expenses account for 13.5 percent of aggregate wealth, half of which is due to nursing home expe...

Types of Care When a Nursing Home Is Home : How Do Canadian Nursing Homes Measure Up on Quality ?