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| National Expenditures on Health and Nursing Home Care | |
| Introduction | |
| Overview of Spending Patterns | |
| Overview of Financing Patterns | |
| Projections of Health Care Expenditures | |
| Implications for the Nursing Home Industry | |
| Legislative and Economic History of the Nursing Home Industry | |
| Introduction | |
| Prior to the Social Security Act of 1935 | |
| From Social Security to Medicare | |
| The Medicare/Medicaid Era | |
| Cost Containment: The Issue of the Eighties and Beyond Trends in the 1990s | |
| Elements of Nursing Home Demand | |
| Demographic Trends | |
| Risk Factors for Institutionalization | |
| Theories of Demand | |
| Structure of the Nursing Home Industry | |
| Nursing Homes and Their Characteristics | |
| Nursing Facilities | |
| ursing Facility Beds | |
| Nursing Facility Residents | |
| Industry Employment and Staffing | |
| Financial Characteristics and Measures | |
| Theories of Supply | |
| Financing Arrangements and Cost Relationships | |
| Payment Patterns for Nursing Home Care | |
| Public Payment Options | |
| Private Payment Options | |
| Cost Relationships | |
| Cost-Containment Regulation, and Quality Issues | |
| Cost-Containment Approaches | |
| Managed Care | |
| The BBA of 1997] | |
| PPS and the Nursing Home Industry | |
| Balanced Budget Refinement Act of 1999 | |
| Regulation and Quality | |
| Quality Concepts | |
| Quality by Profit Status | |
| 7Competitive Challenges and Opportunities: The LTC Continuum | |
| LTC Specialization, Diversification, and Integration | |
| Subacute Care | |
| Data on the Subacute Care Industry | |
| Issues in Subacute Care | |
| Home Health Care | |
| Adult Day Care | |
| Competitive Challenges and Opportunities: The LTC Continuum | |
| Assisted Living | |
| The Market for AL | |
| Continuing Care Retirement Communities | |
| Hospice Care | |
| Integrated Provider Networks | |
| Global Comparisons | |
| Data Considerations | |
| Demographic Considerations | |
| Institutionalization Rates | |
| Comparative Delivery and Financing of LTC Services | |
| The LTC Continuum of Outside the United States | |
| Common Aspects of Global Long-Term Care Approaches | |
| Public Policy Perspectives | |
| Overview | |
| Reforming LTC Financing | |
| Alternative Delivery Systems | |
| The Likely Reform Scenario: Continuing Incrementalism | |
| Managerial Issues and Challenges | |
| Managerial Challenges | |
| Financial and Human Resource Concerns | |
| Quality and Regulatory Matters | |
| Legal Issues | |
| The Ultimate Issue: A Revenue Crisis | |
| Concluding Thoughts | |
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