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Care to the Elderly

This study included the conduct an extensive literature survey (1) to identify and examine the demographic and structural factors that may be associated with the development of barriers to the delivery of care to elderly patients in long-term care facilities that are integrated into hospital and IDS organizations, and (2) to the extent possible at this time, to identify the differences that may exist between for-profit and not-for-profit hospitals and IDS organizations with such barriers to the delivery of care to elderly patients,

The research performed for this study was limited to a literature survey. Changes in relation to the issue investigated are both new and dynamic; thereby compromising at this time the use of case study research or quantitative analysis. Literature was surveyed that was relevant to both those factors that may be expected to create substantial impacts on the issue, as well as, where possible, that was relevant to the actual experiences of hospital and IDS organizations with integrated long-term care facilities.

One of the most important findings of the literature review involved the population demographics in the United States. The population demographics of the American population emphasize the importance of the issue of LTC for the elderly segment of the population in the United States. Any issue or factor that impinges on the capacity of the health care delivery system in the United States to provide effective LTC for the elderly segment of the country's population is a significant issue that must be addressed. The for-profit/not-for-profit dichotomy in relation to the delivery of health care in the United States is both long-standing and acrimonious. A scholarly investigation of the effects of this issue on the capacity of the American health care system to deliver effective LTC to the elderly segment of the population is justified.

Structurally, the emerging managed care system, together

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