With many of us living longer the challenge of providing care for the elderly is becoming a major issue.
Last week a report by monitoring body Dr Foster gave an insight into the difficulties hospitals are facing with overcrowding which makes providing the right care for the frail and elderly more difficult.
As long as entitlement programs designed with an assumption of frailty and inability to produce are adjusted to accomodate these trends, this becomes a large mitigation factor for the smaller youthful employee base providing for a larger elderly non-working demographic.
The budget includes provision for 21 extra police officers, maintaining free personal care for the elderly and providing free breakfast clubs in 24 schools in deprived areas.
In 2008 Korea introduced an earned-income tax credit, a universal basic pension and an insurance scheme providing long-term care for the elderly.
The administration had earlier proposed providing temporary block grants to states to help cover the drug costs for elderly residents, but lawmakers rejected that plan.
Doctors, hospitals, surgeons and specialists providing critical care to the elderly such as surgery for hip and knee replacements, sophisticated diagnostics through MRIs and CT scans, and even treatment for cancer and heart disease will shut down and disappear in much of the country, and others would stop serving Medicare patients.
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Doctors, hospitals, surgeons and specialists providing critical care to the elderly such as surgery for hip and knee replacements, sophisticated diagnostics through MRIs and CT scans, and even treatment for cancer and heart disease would shut down and disappear in much of the country, and others would stop serving Medicare patients.
Going a step further, providing coaching or direct care management services would make all the difference for frail elderly patients.
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Decreasing the age of Medicare and increasing the premiums for this younger group could actually help save Medicare money while providing the government assistance that should be afforded to the elderly.
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