# data[].attributes.body
-An approach to care that is required over extended periods, with temporary, short-term breaks, but typically lasting for the remainder of the recipient's life.

# data[].attributes.body
-Long-term care has never been particularly prioritized in our federal social welfare policies since the 1960s. Medicare and Medicaid never intended to pay the heavy share of LTC.

-Medicare only temporarily funds LTC by covering nursing home–based rehabilitation after a hospital discharge.

-Medicaid finances more than half of all long-term care for people who need help with daily activities, but it’s available only to people who have spent down their own assets, and it has coverage gaps.

-Sadly to say, financing from both of these entities has been declining.

-At the same time, states have been shifting Medicaid-funded care into people’s homes since 2013, even as it continues to underfund in both settings. This is happening in response to a U.S. Supreme Court decision in Olmstead v. L.C. (1999) requiring that care be provided in the least restrictive setting possible.

# data[].attributes.body
-A facility that provides residents with a room, meals, personal care, nursing care, and medical services.

-Residents may be individuals with chronic conditions requiring long-term care or individuals needing a shorter-term acute recovery period after hospitalization.

-Some nursing homes are set up like a hospital where the staff provides medical care, as well as physical, speech and occupational therapy. There might be a nurses' station on each floor. Other nursing homes try to be more like home and offer a neighborhood feel. Often, they don't have a fixed day-to-day schedule, and kitchens might be open to residents. Staff members are encouraged to develop relationships with residents.

# data[].attributes.body
-Many nursing homes struggled to provide high-quality care and retain a sufficient workforce.

-Nursing homes were in an unstable state prior to the start of this pandemic due to the result of decades of neglect of long-term care policy.

-Cases of nursing home neglect which is a type of elder abuse committed against older adults in nursing homes.

-According to the U.S. Government Accountability Office, More than 4 in 5 nursing homes were cited for infection control problems between 2013 and 2017, according to an analysis by the U.S. Government Accountability Office of more than 16,000 inspections during that time.

# data[].attributes.body
-Nursing homes house a population of people particularly vulnerable to poor outcomes of the virus and the facilities lack the necessary resources to protect the staff and residents including tests and PPE.

-Once the pandemic hit, it devastated nursing homes, accounting for 35% of the country's Covid-19 deaths.

-More than 153,000 residents and employees of 7,700 nursing homes in the U.S. have contracted the virus because they have been ill equipped to stop the spread of it.

-As a result of the lack of funding and continued development of nursing homes before the pandemic, many of them had no way of properly responding to a national emergency of this magnitude.

-It is expected for nursing homes to struggle in the coming times, and many will be forced to close or file for bankruptcy which would displace hundreds of thousands of residents.

-Nursing homes will need to be saved, with advocates estimating it would require up to $15 billion in federal funds to do so.