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Assuring the quality of long-term care insurance benef  
- Journal of aging & social policy
Scharlach A, Dal Santo TS, Mills-Dick K
Center for the Advanced Study of Aging Services, University of California, School of Social Welfare, 120 Haviland Hall, CA 94720, USA.
Despite recent improvements in long-term care insurance (LTCI) policies, concerns have been raised regarding just how well LTCI benefits actually meet elderly consumers' health and financial needs. In this case study, we examined the quality assurance (QA) provisions in a state-sponsored...

Long-term care insurance and integrated care for the  
- International journal of integrated care
Matsuda S, Yamamoto M
School of Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health Iseigaoka 1-1, Yhatanishi, Kitakyushu 807-8555, Japan. smatsuda@med.uoeh-u.ac.jp
By the introduction of a public, mandatory program of Long-Term Care Insurance (LTCI) on April 1, 2000, Japan has moved towards a system of social care for the frail and elderly. The program covers care that is both home-based and institutional. Fifty percent of the insurance is financed...

[Long-term care insurance system and osteoporosis]  
2004 Mar - Clinical calcium
Ishibashi H
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Tokyo Metropolitan Geniatric Medical Center.
The Long-term Care Insurance is the principal system that supports the Japanese elderly more than 24 million in number. The recipients of this system are increasing rapidly and get up to 3 million now. In Japan, hip fracture is one of the primary causes that make the elderly bedridden....

Long-term care insurance: care management practice  
Spring 2004 - Care management journals : Journal of case management ; The journal of long term home health care
Quinn J, Pannone P, Gruman C, Roja M
Evercare, United Health Group Company, USA.
There are numerous articles about the pros and cons of long-term care insurance. However, for many people it is a solution for funding long-term care when they are in need of these services. The provision of appropriate care management to individuals, providers, and insurers results in...

[Perspectives in long-term care insurance]  
2007 Mar - Gesundheitswesen (Bundesverband der Ärzte des Öffentlichen Gesundheitsdienstes (Germany))
Pick P
Essen, Germany. P.Pick@mds-ev.de
Twelve years after its introduction, long-term care insurance is back on the agenda and up for political reform. This paper shows why long-term care insurance needs to be reformed. The two central aspects on which reform projects focus are addressed: firstly, the structural improvement...

[Public health nurses' activities after the initiation of lo  
2003 Aug - [Nippon kōshū eisei zasshi] Japanese journal of public health
Nagata S, Murashima S, Haruna M, Kitagawa S, Kuramochi K, Furuya A, Horii T, Yuzawa M, Tagami Y
Department of Community Health Nursing, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo.
... conducted a nationwide questionnaire survey to elucidate the present status of public health nurses (PHNs) after initiation of the Long-Term Care Insurance (LTCI) system, in order to study the influence of the allocation of PHNs upon the performance of the system. METHODS: In March 2001, a questionnaire...

Family caregiver burden in the context of the long-ter  
2004 Sep - Journal of epidemiology / Japan Epidemiological Association
Arai Y
Research Unit for Nursing, Caring Sciences and Psychology, National Institute for Longevity Sciences, 36-3 Gengo Morioka-cho, Obu-shi, Aichi 474-8522, Japan.
... The topics are as follows: cross-sectional studies on caregiver burden; changes in caregiver burden; appropriateness of the Long-Term Care insurance assessment scheme; attitude towards caregiving among caregivers; and the development of the short version of the Japanese version of the Zarit...

[Care and nursing in remodeling long term care insura  
2007 Jul - Nippon Ronen Igakkai zasshi. Japanese journal of geriatrics
Endo H
Department of comprehensive geriatric medicine, National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontdogy, Japan.
Long term care insurance was changed in 2006. The main purpose of remodeling is to support preventive care and to develop community comprehensive care center and community based services. Community based services are composed by group homes, night care services, small multi-function complex...

Understanding long-term care insurance.  
- Issue brief (Center for Medicare Education)
Burns B
California Health Advocates, California HICAP Association (CHA), USA.
Your clients who want to purchase a long-term care insurance (LTC-I) policy will need to consider many factors in their decision making. In this brief we discuss the different types of LTC-I policies and explain the benefits available when applying for a policy.

[Evaluation of demographic factors for autonomy of th  
2004 Jul - [Nippon kōshū eisei zasshi] Japanese journal of public health
Kutsumi M, Ito M, Mikami H
Division of Health Promotion Science, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University.
... study was conducted to characterize (1) the autonomy of service users, both frail elderly and of their family caregivers, in selecting Long-term care insurance services, and to evaluate (2) influencing demographic factors. The aim was to propose new directions for the care providing system....

[The Impact of Diseases (ICD-10) and Impairments of  
2006 Jul - Gesundheitswesen (Bundesverband der Ärzte des Öffentlichen Gesundheitsdienstes (Germany))
Schmitt J
Medizinischer Dienst der Krankenkassen Berlin-Brandenburg e. V. J.Schmitt@onlinehome.de
... representative sample of expert records from the Medical Review Board of the statutory care insurance funds (MDK) it could be shown that in the year 2003 more diseases of dementia had been examined for the long-term care insurance. The diagnois of dementia is statistically significant as a determinat...

[Geriatric medicine and long-term care insurance]  
2004 Mar - Nippon Ronen Igakkai zasshi. Japanese journal of geriatrics
Sakurai T, Song X, Yokono K
Department of Internal and Geriatric Medicine, Kobe Graduate School of Medicine.
Long-term care insurance (LCI) started from April 2000 in Japan. LCI now occupies a central position in the health care of the aged. We reviewed all original papers and reports on LCI published in 1996-2002. At the end of 2002, we searched for papers on LCI in a computer database using...

Factors related to feelings of burden among caregiver  
2004 Aug - Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences
Arai Y, Kumamoto K, Washio M, Ueda T, Miura H, Kudo K
Research Unit for Nursing Caring Sciences and Psychology, National Institute for Longevity Sciences, Obu, Japan. yarai@nils.go.jp
... been the subject of rather intense study, a trend that will continue with the rapid graying of populations worldwide. Since the Long-Term Care insurance system began in 2000, few cross-sectional studies have attempted to identify factors related to the feelings of burden among caregivers...

Long-term care insurance: buy it or not!  
2005 Jul-Aug - Geriatric nursing (New York, N.Y.)
Ali NS
Ball State University School of Nursing, Muncie, Indiana, USA.
Subscribing to a long-term care (LTC) insurance plan for future health care and services is one of the most difficult decisions aging Americans need to make today. Although it may be difficult to predict who will need an LTC plan and for how long, various factors play an important role...

Why don't people buy long-term-care insurance?  
2006 Jul - The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences
Cramer AT, Jensen GA
Institute of Gerontology, Wayne State University, 87 East Ferry Street, Detroit, MI 48202, USA. atcramer@wayne.edu
OBJECTIVES: The objective of this article was to assess the determinants of an individual's decision to purchase long-term-care (LTC) insurance. This article focuses on the decision to purchase a new policy as opposed to renewing an existing policy. This study gave special consideration...

[Effects of nursing insurance on caregiving daughters-  
2003 Dec - Pflege
Dräger D, Geister C, Kuhlmey A
Institut für Medizinische Soziologie, Zentrum für Human- und Gesundheitswissenschaften, Berliner Hochschulmedizin, Freie Universität Berlin. ddraeger@zedat.fu-berlin.de
... research. The object of the investigation described in this paper was to assess the measures of the Pflegeversicherung [Long Term Care Insurance] with regard to its effects on care-giving daughters. This publication assesses one of the questions of the study--what part professional services...

Time distribution of selected care activities in home ca  
2004 Jan - Journal of clinical nursing
Bartholomeyczik S, Hunstein D
University Witten/Herdecke, Witten, Germany. sbartholo@aol.com
... OBJECTIVES: To investigate the time required by family caregivers to carry out selected care activities. The project was initiated by the responsible ministry for German Long Term Care Insurance. The Long Term Care Insurance provides recommendations for specific time ranges for care activities...

[Tendency of development and perspectives of domes  
2006 Dec - Zeitschrift für Gerontologie und Geriatrie : Organ der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Gerontologie und Geriatrie
Schneekloth U
TNS Infratest Sozialforschung, Landsberger Strasse 338, 80687, München, Germany. Ulrich.Schneekloth@tns-infratest.com
... is still provided by the family. Professional services within the framework of the Long Term Care Insurance add to domestic care, with the central objective to support the private willingness to home care. Viewed in line with the trend, domestic care arrangements - also against the background...

The nutritional status of frail elderly with care needs a  
2006 Dec - Clinical nutrition (Edinburgh, Scotland)
Izawa S, Kuzuya M, Okada K, Enoki H, Koike T, Kanda S, Iguchi A
Department of Geriatric, Nagoya University, Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan.
... community-dwelling elderly subjects from day-care centers (81.9+/-7.2yr of age mean+/-SD; 72 men and 209 women) who were eligible for Long-Term Care Insurance were enrolled in this study to evaluate their nutritional status using the mini-nutritional assessment. The levels of care needs...

The silent crisis: women and the need for long-term c  
2003 Oct - Caring : National Association for Home Care magazine
Iverson RJ
RonIverson@GuardingYourGold.com
... is a male. Finally, in all age bands, females far outnumber males among Medicare recipients. When combined with the greater costs of care and medicine in the last few years of life, this sets the stage for a tremendous economic impact on older women. In the first article of a three-part...