Long Term Care Systems Toward Quality Community Living and Healthy Aging

August 2004 Long Term Care Systems Toward Quality Community Living and Healthy Aging  Home and community-based services, such as personal care, home health, adult day care, adult foster homes and assisted living facilities, are a growing component of long term care services. Nationally, in 2002, Medicaid home and community-based services for persons of all ages constituted 30 percent of total Medicaid long term care expenditures, with 70 percent of expenditures going to institutional care. In 2011, baby-boomers will begin turning 65, and by 2030, one in five people will be age 65 or older. As the population . . .