Health Care

Challenges in Long-Term Care

LaShawnda Braxton

South University

Challenges in Long-Term Care

This editorial paper that was written by Smith and Feng is exceedingly educational. It presents the problems with long-term care that the United States is presently being challenged with. This information or study was brought about showing that for a long time the United States has had a heavy amount drifts with concerns to its delivery of long-term care. In this article the authors showed issues like social arrogances regarding the care, the alteration of medicine, riches, as well as the ongoing development of the population. Smith and Feng felt that if they came up with this study a course of action would provide policy makers with facts concerning how and what could be established to make the health care system better. Additionally, the policy makers could gain knowledge that could help guarantee that the health care system decrease the un-positive attention they have received from the directions they have chosen. The article shows that the policy makers, the health care professionals, as well as the patients who need long-term care are the concerned stakeholders.

There are a lot of issues surrounding the long-term care continuum and what needs to be known about them is that the system now has damaging components from its previous years which is harming a huge amount of it. In addition, families who provide care for their love ones in the past have now become a burden in the future. Another issue would be repayment to hospitals and home health care provides which is a huge effect and disturbs the long-term care environment. Also if one thinks about how the beds that were available then are not used today because of how Medicare is a pricy benefit. The housing down fall in the past as well as the slow financial development is also an issue that is part of the long-term continuum and most feel that they are accountable for the negativity of the private assisted...