Why Are Long-Term Care Services Important?
Long-term care refers to a broad range of medical, personal, and social services needed by people who are unable to meet their basic living needs for an extended period of time. Such conditions include the inability to move about, dress, bathe, eat, use a toilet and/or safely take medications. Help may also be needed with household cleaning, preparing meals, shopping, paying bills, visiting the doctor, or answering the phone. Long-term care disabilities can be due to the cumulative effects of aging, as well as cognitive or physical impairment from accident, stroke, depression, dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, etc.
