Between Dec 19, 2024 and Jan 2, 2025, datasets can be submitted to DRUM but will not be processed until after the break. Staff will not be available to answer email during this period, and will not be able to provide DOIs until after Jan 2. If you are in need of a DOI during this period, consider Dryad or OpenICPSR. Submission responses to the UDC may also be delayed during this time.
 

Financing Long Term Care: Dilemmas and Decisions Facing the Elderly, Family Members, and Society.

Stum, Marlene
Brouwer, Estelle
1996
Thumbnail Image

View/Download File

P1041-una.pdf (3.28 MB)

Persistent link to this item

https://hdl.handle.net/11299/208155
Statistics
View Statistics

Journal Title

Journal ISSN

Volume Title

Title

Financing Long Term Care: Dilemmas and Decisions Facing the Elderly, Family Members, and Society.

Authors

Published Date

1996

Publisher

Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, University of Minnesota

Type

Report

Abstract

Keywords

Description

When families are faced with a chronic disease in one of their elders how do they respond? What do the professionals they work with suggest? This 1996 study, the first to examine family decision making about how to finance nursing home care, conducted in-depth interviews with forty-five families faced with Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's. It also interviewed sixty-five professionals--attorneys, financial planners, nursing home social workers, and Medicaid eligibility workers. In addition, both families and professionals were asked their opinions about a number of controversial issues relating to long term care including the roles of individuals and the government in paying for it. Medicaid estate planning was not a prevalent practice among those interviewed. Study findings include the goals of families in caring for their elders, how care needs are met, and how nursing home expenses are paid. Public policy implications are explicitly laid out.

Related to

Replaces

License

Collections

Policy and Government Reform Reports

Series/Report Number

CURA 96-5

Funding information

Supported by an Interactive Research Grant from CURA and a College of Human Ecology Outreach Grant.

Isbn identifier

Doi identifier

Previously Published Citation

Other identifiers

P1041

Suggested citation

Stum, Marlene; Brouwer, Estelle. (1996). Financing Long Term Care: Dilemmas and Decisions Facing the Elderly, Family Members, and Society.. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/208155.

Content distributed via the University Digital Conservancy may be subject to additional license and use restrictions applied by the depositor. By using these files, users agree to the Terms of Use. Materials in the UDC may contain content that is disturbing and/or harmful. For more information, please see our statement on harmful content in digital repositories.