Caring for the Disabled Elderly: Who Will Pay?

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION v
• Foreword vii
• The Brookings Advisory Panel on Long-Term Care ix
• Contents xi
• PART I Overview 1
• Chapter One: Introduction and Summary 3
• Chapter Two: The Model and the Base Case 30
• PART 2 Private Sector Strategies for Reform 51
• Chapter Three: Introduction to Private Sector Strategies 53
• Chapter Four: Private Long-Term Care Insurance 59
• Chapter Five: Continuing Care Retirement Communities 83
• Chapter Six: Social/Health Maintenance Organizations 96
• Chapter Seven: Individual Medical Accounts 109
• Chapter Eight: Home Equity Conversions 123
• Chapter Nine: Private Sector Approaches and Delivery System Reform 146
• Chapter Ten Introduction to Public Sector Strategies 155
• Chapter Eleven Block Grants 161
• Chapter Twelve: Family Responsibility 170
• Chapter Thirteen: Support for Unpaid Caregivers 179
• Chapter Fourteen: Expanded Home Care 190
• Chapter Fifteen: Liberalized Medicaid 203
• Chapter Sixteen: Public Long-Term Care Insurance 210
• PART 4 What Should Be Done? 235
• Chapter Seventeen Recommendations for Financing Long-Term Care 237
• Technical Appendix 249
• Notes 271
• Index 311

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