Understanding Long-term Healthcare

Comprehensive care for chronic illnesses or disabilities requiring extended medical attention.

Long-term Healthcare FAQ

What is long term care?

4. Long term care Long term care is provided to clients on an ongoing basis and varies from high intensity provision such as nursing care, to lower intensity support in the community such as the provision of direct payments to arrange regular home care visits.

What is the difference between short term care and long term care?

Whereas short term care is designed for a time limited period, and in the case of ST-Max with the aim of reducing or removing the clients need for ongoing care, long term care has no fixed time period and is delivered for as long as it is required.

What is long-term care (LTC)?

Long-term care ( LTC) is a variety of services which help meet both the medical and non-medical needs of people with a chronic illness or disability who cannot care for themselves for long periods.

What is long-term care?

Increasingly, long-term care involves providing a level of medical care that requires the expertise of skilled practitioners to address the multiple long-term conditions associated with older populations. Long-term care can be provided at home, in the community, in assisted living facilities or in nursing homes.

What are long term conditions?

Definitions of long term conditions as “health problems that require ongoing management over a period of years or decades” 9 fail to reflect the personal, social, and economic burden on the individual, their families, and wider community.

How can health systems improve care for people with long term conditions?

Transforming care for people with long term conditions, including support for self management, requires comprehensive reform of health systems largely geared to provide acute care.

What is the NHS long term plan?

Drawn up by those who know the NHS best – frontline health and care staff, patients and their families and other experts – the Long Term Plan is ambitious but realistic. It will give everyone the best start in life; deliver world-class care for major health problems, such as cancer and heart disease, and help people age well.

What is a long-term condition?

A long-term condition is an illness that cannot be cured. It can usually be controlled with medicines or other treatments. Examples of long-term conditions include diabetes, arthritis, high blood pressure, epilepsy, asthma and some mental health conditions. If you have more one than long-term condition this is ‘multi-morbidity’.