Long-Term Care

Essay by kellyhitch1University, Bachelor'sA, September 2008

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Long-Term Care is something that is important and it is a subject that is not going to go away. You hear and read about it all the time. It has a high demand today rather than many years ago. Years ago families are the ones that took care of their mother, father or grandparents but in today's society we have to work and that is no ones fought but our own.

Long-term facilities are in demand more today than before and it is only going to increase from here. Some of us think of it sooner than others. The reality is that we all we get old and we all will need help. It is the same as caring for an infant. Just as an infant needs help, so does an elderly person. It is not something that is exciting to think of but it happens to all of us.

All we can do is try to be prepared for when it happens.

Long-term care is something we all have to face in time and it also something we want to put on hold. It is hard for a person to face and deal with the reality of being hard. It is a hard adjustment for a person not being able to do things like they once did. Needing help with their daily lives is something that would be hard for everyone. It is the same as a person being able to see everything as the next person and waking up the next day and being totally blind. That feeling of being helpless would be the worst feeling that a person can have. But, we have to find a way to deal with it like any other problem. It is just harder for some people than other people.

Things are...