Senate Committee Takes Aim at Long-Term Care

[LTCCareer.com]

Friday, November 11, 2011

The numbers are scary, according to policy experts and legislators at a  Senate Subcommittee on Aging and Long-Term Care meeting yesterday:

    • The cost of care in a nursing home in  California is approximately $6,000 a month, and the cost of part-time, in-home  care is roughly $1,700 a month, according to state officials.

    • Both those numbers are expected to double in less  than 20 years to $12,000 a month for nursing home care and $3,400 a month  for in-home help, according to committee Chair Elaine Alquist (D-Santa  Clara).

    • California has more than four million seniors  right now. That figure is expected to more than double to 8.8 million by 2030,  according to Steven Wallace of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.

    • About one-third of the respondents in a UCLA survey  say they couldn't afford one month of nursing home care, Wallace said.

Read more: http://www.californiahealthline.org/capitol-desk.aspx#ixzz1dQhqbGsu

 

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