Your response should beat least 2 pages, 12 point font, 1.5 line spacing and 1 inch margins.
The evolution of the Long Term Care industry has been influenced by reimbursement and cost rather than a coherent plan. Do you agree with this statement or disagree. Present your opinion and support it from what you learned this semester. Limit your sources to the text and other materials that you used from this course.
The text book that you can use for this essay is:
Long Term Care Managing Across the Continuum, Fourth Edition, by John R. Pratt, or one of these articles which I will list below:
1. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/28/science/nursing-homes-are-starting-to-supplant-hospitals-as-focus-of-basic-health-care.html?ribbon-ad-idx=8&rref=science&module=ArrowsNav&contentCollection=undefined&action=click®ion=FixedRight&pgtype=Blogs
2. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/15/business/as-nursing-homes-chase-lucrative-patients-quality-of-care-is-said-to-lag.html?_r=http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/nyregion/a-group-portrait-of-new-yorks-oldest-old.html?ref=nyregion
3. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/nyregion/a-group-portrait-of-new-yorks-oldest-old.html?ref=nyregion
4. http://newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/10/assisted-living-or-a-nursing-home/
5. http://newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/19/managing-the-assisted-living-vs-hospice-dilemma/?_r=0
6. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/21/business/nursing-home-ratings-fall-as-tougher-standards-take-effect.html
7. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/07/nyregion/pitfalls-seen-in-tennessees-turn-to-privately-run-long-term-care.html
8. https://www.medicare.gov/nursinghomecompare/?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1
9. http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/other/2006/apr/transforming-long-term-care–giving-residents-a-place-to-call–home
10. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/23/national/23nurse.html
11. http://www.providermagazine.com/archives/archives-2010/Pages/1010/Matching-Patient-Needs-To-Provider-Services.aspx#magazine-article
12. http://www.leadingage.org/3_Trends_That_Will_Drive_the_Future_of_Aging_Services.aspx
Other sources CAN”T be use to do this essay. Please read the instruction carefully. These is the professor last email about the essay:
Critical think about the quest. Use and outline to organize your paragraphs. Make sure that you have a good topic sentence that clearly states the main idea of the paragraph. The support sentences should explain the topic sentence and answer potential questions that the topic sentence might inspire (i.e.; the what, why and how questions). Make sure each paragraph has at least four sentences. Edit your work – use the software to you advantage. Also read the essay outline and listen to you voice. If it does not sound right, fix it.