America's long-term care system needs help: Can Europe provide a model for how to improve it?
For millions of Americans, long-term care presents enormous financial, logistical and emotional challenges. Private long-term care insurance is prohibitively expensive or simply unavailable, and most older Americans aren't eligible for Medicaid until they exhaust nearly all their financial resources.
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