Nursing Home: the Round Trip Ticket

For some people, nursing homes remain a great bug-a-boo. That's because for many years, for many people, there were few choices. Now there are.

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Dec 6, 2011

Posted by: Douwe Rienstra, MD

You are very unlikely to live your last days in a nursing home

Decades ago, Medicare paid very little for home care, but covered nursing home care well. That's why so many people spent their last years in such a home.

Today Medicare policy reverses that trend.

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