Tag: activities of daily living
![Empty wheelchair in living room next to the couch](https://crr.bc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Empty-wheelchair-in-living-room-next-to-the-couch-1536x1022.jpeg)
Where are we going to get the workers to care for us? How are we going to pay them? In my view, long-term care is one of the major challenges facing an aging society. Care can take the form of a nursing home, formal care provided in the community or home, or informal care provided…
![seniors in a retirement home](https://crr.bc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/seniors.jpg)
Two previous studies on long-term care reported in this blog estimated how many of today’s 65-year-olds today will require care for minimal, moderate, or severe levels of need as they age and how many have the financial resources to cover each level of care that might be required. In the third and final study in…