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A Question for you . . .
Let’s pretend for a second that you have two things:
1. Nothing holding you back from your visions (no rules, all the money in the world, no one to say no, absolutely nothing but wide open opportunity).
2. A magic wand.
What change or changes would you make to long-term care or aging services?
Please answer by clicking below on “comment” (you get to be an inventor and adventurer here, be whoever you want to be, yourself, Thomas Edison, Amelia Erhart, Richard Branson, anyone . . . this is pretend time).
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This entry was posted on Thursday, September 6th, 2007 at 8:24 pm and is filed under Leadership, long-term care. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
September 6th, 2007 at 8:31 pm
I would create “We Care Community Care”, where people deliver the services to you to your house, your apartment, etc. As part of We Care Community Care, I would have a huge social component. To do that I would get rid of “senior centers.” Instead I’d make the community center, YMCA or other community gathering place a place that has a variety of programming where seniors just know they’re welcome because tey’re people, not just seniors. Senior center screams to me all i get to do is hang out with other seniors, i’m not a part of the larger community.
September 7th, 2007 at 1:05 pm
All caregivers (including family member caregivers) would receive a real living wage, including overtime pay, and have health insurance. GOOD health insurance, not insurance that’s so expensive they can’t afford to use it.
Lots of people out there who’d love to be able to care for their own and could under these conditions.
And every day I hear stories from caregivers who work as paid caregivers and who are at the same time unpaid caregivers for loved ones. Some work two paid jobs in addition to the “job” at home.
They can’t afford the cars they are expected to have to drive far distances to give seniors care in their homes. Unable to afford health insurance, they put off taking care of themselves.
It’s so very wrong. . .
September 8th, 2007 at 12:25 am
i would make long term care benefits part of Medicare, so they are available to all Medicare beneficiaries. the private market would develop products (like Medicare supplemental insurance) that would wrap around what medicare covers.