Ans) Long-term care (LTC) refers to a broad range of services provided by paid or unpaid providers that can support people who have limitations in their ability to care for themselves due to a physical, cognitive, or chronic health condition that is expected to continue for an extended period of time.
- People often need long-term care when they have a serious, ongoing health condition or disability. The need for long-term care can arise suddenly, such as after a heart attack or stroke. Most often, however, it develops gradually, as people get older and frailer or as an illness or disability gets worse.
- The elderly 75 years of age or over are 20 times as likely to require assistance with activities of daily living than persons under 65 years of age. The projected rapid growth of this group 75 years of age or over foreshadows major increases in the demand for long-term care.
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