What are long-term care services?

What are long-term care services?

Karl Steinberg (Associate Medical Director, Sharp Mission Park Medical Group) gives expert video advice on: What is long-term care?; Why should I worry about long-term care?; Who needs long-term care? and more...

Long-term care services comprise a huge variety of both skilled services and non-skilled services. It could be just some assistance with some of the activities of daily living. For example, you can't cook for yourself, or you can't get to the store, things like that. Also, it could mean that you need assistance with actual medical conditions. For example, you've had a stroke, or maybe you're incontinent. It goes from very mild degrees of assistance to very extensive needs.