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2. Elderly care - Wikipedia

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   It encompasses assisted living, adult daycare, long-term care, nursing homes (often called residential care), hospice care, and home care. Elderly care emphasizes the social and personal requirements of senior citizens who wish to age with dignity while needing assistance with daily activities and with healthcare. Much elderly care is unpaid. [1]

3. Long-term care - Wikipedia

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   A recent analysis indicates that Americans spent $219.9 billion on long-term care services for the elderly in 2012. [52] Nursing home spending accounts for the majority of long-term care expenditures, but the proportion of home and community based care expenditures has increased over the past 25 years. [53]

4. Nursing home - Wikipedia

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   Nursing homes may also be referred to as care homes, skilled nursing facilities (SNF) or long-term care facilities. Often, these terms have slightly different meanings to indicate whether the institutions are public or private, and whether they provide mostly assisted living , or nursing care and emergency medical care .

5. What's the Difference Between Types of Long-Term Care ... - AOL

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   If you hear long-term care facility and automatically think nursing home, it's not surprising. Early on, the "facility" where an older adult receives treatments, help with medications or personal ...

6. How Do I Know If a Long-Term Care Facility or Nursing ... - AOL

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   As we get older, many of us need help on a day-to-day basis. There are several different options for how to seek this kind of care, and two of the most common are long-term care facilities and ...

7. The most expensive states for nursing home care - AOL

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   In-home care, demand for which has boomed over the past decade, and assisted living facilities provide long-term care options for older adults at a lower cost on average compared to nursing home care.