Community Long-Term Care Services

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Abstract
To establish a context, long-term care (LTC) can be provided either through institutions or in the community; can include both formal (i.e., generally paid and often specialized) and informal (i.e., generally unpaid and often unspecialized) care; and that formal care can have either public or private funding. Within this context, a fundamental conceptual structure for addressing the topic of what works and what does not in formal community long-term care (CLTC) might be reduced to four components:

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