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Florida Creates Long Term Care Task Force
Wed, 07/26/2000 - 12:00am — Karen Stevenson
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The Florida Legislature has create a Task Force on the Availability and Affordability of Long-term Care, to study issues related to the provision of long-term care to the elderly in nursing homes and alternatives to nursing homes, and to make recommendations to the Governor and the Legislature. The Task Force has until the end of the year to come up with its proposals. The group will hold hearings in Tampa, Miami, Pensacola and Tallahassee this summer and fall to listen to the public.
The legislation states that the task force shall, at a minimum, study and make recommendations concerning the following:
The availability of alternative housing and care settings for the elderly, including the use of rent-subsidized facilities, assisted living facilities, and adult family care homes.
The availability of community-based care arrangements that support elderly individuals to age in place in their own homes and in alternative housing and care settings.
The role of family members in caring for elderly relatives and ways in which quality family care can be encouraged.
The adequacy of reimbursements for the cost of providing care to the elderly in nursing homes and in alternative housing and care settings.
The availability and affordability of long-term-care insurance coverage and the potential for funding long-term care through such coverage.
The role of the certificate-of-need process in the development of systems of long-term care for the elderly.
The extent to which the quality of care in long-term-care facilities in this state is compromised because of market changes that affect the financial stability of the long-term-care industry.
The effect of lawsuits against nursing homes and long-term care facilities on the cost of nursing home care and on the financial stability of the nursing home industry in the state.
The cost and availability of liability insurance coverage for long-term-care providers and the extent to which such costs affect the affordability of care.
The primary causes for recent bankruptcies facing the nursing home industry.
The ways in which other states have promoted the development of alternative and homebased care and what they have learned from these innovations.
The difference between the quality of care provided by for-profit skilled nursing facilities and by not-for-profit skilled nursing facilities.
The Florida Legislature has create a Task Force on the Availability and Affordability of Long-term Care, to study issues related to the provision of long-term care to the elderly in nursing homes and alternatives to nursing homes, and to make recommendations to the Governor and the Legislature. The Task Force has until the end of the year to come up with its proposals. The group will hold hearings in Tampa, Miami, Pensacola and Tallahassee this summer and fall to listen to the public.
The legislation states that the task force shall, at a minimum, study and make recommendations concerning the following:
The availability of alternative housing and care settings for the elderly, including the use of rent-subsidized facilities, assisted living facilities, and adult family care homes.
The availability of community-based care arrangements that support elderly individuals to age in place in their own homes and in alternative housing and care settings.
The role of family members in caring for elderly relatives and ways in which quality family care can be encouraged.
The adequacy of reimbursements for the cost of providing care to the elderly in nursing homes and in alternative housing and care settings.
The availability and affordability of long-term-care insurance coverage and the potential for funding long-term care through such coverage.
The role of the certificate-of-need process in the development of systems of long-term care for the elderly.
The extent to which the quality of care in long-term-care facilities in this state is compromised because of market changes that affect the financial stability of the long-term-care industry.
The effect of lawsuits against nursing homes and long-term care facilities on the cost of nursing home care and on the financial stability of the nursing home industry in the state.
The cost and availability of liability insurance coverage for long-term-care providers and the extent to which such costs affect the affordability of care.
The primary causes for recent bankruptcies facing the nursing home industry.
The ways in which other states have promoted the development of alternative and homebased care and what they have learned from these innovations.
The difference between the quality of care provided by for-profit skilled nursing facilities and by not-for-profit skilled nursing facilities.
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