Long-Term Care: Managing Across the Continuum, Fifth Edition

Exercise Option 2

The ideal long-term care system discussed in this chapter would base eligibility for services on functional needs rather than financial needs. Find the criteria for eligibility for Medicaid coverage for a nursing facility in your state (you can get the eligibility standards directly from the state or from a nursing facility).

B. How close do they come to the ideal criteria?
C. How would you change them if you could?