What is Long Term Care?
Long-term care is a variety of services and supports to meet health or personal care needs over an extended period of time. Most long-term care is non-skilled personal care assistance, such as help performing everyday Activities of Daily Living (ADLs), which are:
- Bathing,
- Dressing,
- Using the toilet,
- Transferring (to or from bed or chair),
- Caring for incontinence, and
- Eating.
The goal of long-term care services is to help you maximize your independence and functioning at a time when you are unable to be fully independent.
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« What Are My Risks of Needing Long Term Care?
« How Much Care Might I Need?
« How Do Care Needs Change Over Time?
« Why Plan Ahead for Long Term Care?
« Why People Don’t Plan Ahead