Question

Explain what elements are essential in the delivery of long-term care and the effectiveness of the current U.S. health care systems in addressing the needs of an aging U.S. population.

Answer 1

Ans) The main elements of a future model of care delivery that must be present for it to be successful are its ability to deliver better access, improved health outcomes, care coordination, and continuity of care, all at reduced cost.

- Medicare, the social insurance program for older people and some persons with disabilities, and Medicaid, the federal-state health care program for the low-income population, are the main sources of financing for end-of-life care in the United States.

- The health care system may be viewed as a complex made up of three interrelated components: people in need of health care services, called health care consumers; people who deliver health care services—the professionals and practitioners called health care providers; and the systematic arrangements for delivering .