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This site contains excerpts from
The Michigan Long Term Care Companion
How to make the system work for you and what to do when
it doesn’t.
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Michael Connors, Managing Editor
Lydia Rizzo, Associate Editor
Citizens for Better Care
4750 Woodward, Suite 410
Detroit, MI 48201-1308
(800) 833-9548
Copyright © 1998 by Citizens for Better Care. All rights reserved.
No portion of this book may be reproduced in any form or stored in a retrieval
system without permission in writing from the publisher, except short
passages for review in print or electronic media.
ISBN 1-880697-05-X
Dedication and Acknowledgements
About Citizens for Better Care
About the Language
Table of Contents
Introduction 1
Section 1: Long Term Care Overview 3
1. You Are Not Alone 5
2. Care Options: An Overview 15
Section 2: Planning & Decision-Making
26
3. Planning for Care 27
4. Advance Directives 33
5. Guardianship & Conservatorship 49
6. Help from the Hospital 57
Section 3: Paying for Care 68
7. Who’s Going to Pay 69
8. Medicare’s Nursing Home Benefit 77
9. Medicaid’s Nursing Home Benefit 85
10. Long Term Care Insurance 105
11. Managed Care: The Future 121
Section 4: Care at Home 127
12. Home Care 129
13. Hospice Care 145
Section 5: When It’s Not a Nursing Home 153
14. Assisted Living Facilities 155
Section 6: Special Alzheimer’s Disease Programs 174
15. Dementia Care Facilities 175
Section 7: Nursing Homes 191
16. The ABCs of Nursing Homes 193
17. Evaluating and Selecting a Nursing Home
199
18. Nursing Home Admission: Rights, Requirements & Contracts 221
19. Nursing Home Staff – The Key to Quality 241
20. Your Rights as a Nursing Home Resident 249
21. Good Care is Possible – And Required! 273
22. Dignified Care is Restraint Free 293
23. Quality of Life – The Quest for Meaning & Dignity 301
24. Sexuality and Intimacy 309
25. Speak Up for Quality – You Can Make a Difference! 317
26. Inspections and Enforcement 329
Section 8: Elder Abuse 340
27. Identifying and Reporting Abuse 341
Appendix 350
1. Michigan Long Term Care Ombudsman Offices 351
2. Michigan Area Agency on Aging Offices 353
3. Michigan Alzheimer Association Chapters 359
4. Toll-Free Service Numbers 361
5. Web Site Directory 362
6. Long Term Care Acronyms 370
Glossary 372
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