Long Term Care Options
What is Long-Term Care?
Long-term care is a variety of services that includes medical and non-medical care to people who have a chronic illness or disability. Long-term care helps meet health or personal needs. Most long-term care is to assist people with support services such as activities of daily living like dressing, bathing, and using the bathroom. Long-term care can be provided at home, in the community, in assisted living or in nursing homes. It is important to remember that you may need long-tern care at any age.
You may never need long-term care. This year, about nine million men and women over the age of 65 will need long-term care. By 2020, 12 million older Americans will need long-term care. Most will be cared for at home, family and friends are the sole caregivers for 70 percent of the elderly. A study by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services says that people who reach age 65 will likely have a 40 percent chance of entering a nursing home. About 10 percent of the people who enter a nursing home will stay there five 5 years or more.
- Continuing Care Retirement Community
- Provide a Continuum of Care
- Independent Living
- Assisted Living
- Nursing Home
- Free Standing Living Unit
- Independent Living Senior Apartments
- Assisted Living Centers
- Memory Support Facilities
- Nursing Homes
- Community & Home Based Services
- Nursing Homes – Around the clock care
- Long Term Care
- Memory Support Unit
- Short Term Rehabilitative Care
- Respite Care
- Hospice Care
www.medicare.gov/LongTermCare/Static/Counseling.asp
Resources: Counseling and Assistance / Publications / Tools
The following counseling and assistance resources will provide you with general long-term care information and details on specific long-term care topics such as housing services, insurance and loans.
www.cms.hhs.gov
CMS- Centers for Medicare & Medicare
This link will help you with
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Guide to Choosing a Nursing Home
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Medicare & You 2008
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Nursing Home Compare
Link to the Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs
www.dhfs.wisconsin.gov/managedltc/generalinfo/index.htm
Link to the Wisconsin.gov site for general information on Long Term Care Reform and Expansion articles. Great resource for Maps, Presentations, press releases, Aging and Disability Resource Center Development and Planning link, county by county information and more!
Waukesha County Department of Senior Services
1320 Pewaukee Rd. Suite 130
Waukesha, WI 53188
262-548-7828
Milwaukee County Department of Aging
414-289-6874
