Consumer Guide to Long-term Care - Tapa blanda

This guide to long-term care and care facilities offers families advice on key information. It explains how to choose a facility, what to expect from professional caregivers, paying for care, and other difficult issues, including the right to refuse care.

Entry into the long-term health care system often happens suddenly. A mental or physical breakdown seriously weakens a person's health, leaving her or him unable to cope with a host of complex decisions, rules, and information. Families must nevertheless make rapid, vital decisions about long-term care, often involving a nursing home. At the same time, new state laws and federal regulations make it very difficult for consumers to understand the rules of long-term care that apply in particular cases -- let alone how to use them. Such traumatic situations can result in frustration, confusion, and panic -- but this book can help.

Consumer Guide to Long-Term Care
-- guides you in making decisions about nursing homes, home care, assisted living, and other options;
-- offers essential and current information, in one convenient source;
-- shows you how to protect your rights and ensure high standards of care;
-- takes the mystery out of managed care, prospective pricing, and bundled services;
- explains how to choose a facility, pay for care, even refuse care if you wish to;
-- tells you what good caregivers should know -- and what they should and must tell you!

Equipped with this book, you can make informed choices that ensure the best possible experience for yourself or a family member when long-term care becomes a necessity.