by University of Tsukuba Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain As the global population ages, preventing functional decline and the need for long-term care for older adults becomes urgent. One simple way of evaluating a person’s physical condition is to use a body composition analyzer for muscle mass assessment. However, recent studies have raised questions about the relationship...
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‘Financial ruin is baked into the system’: Readers on the costs of long-term care
by Jordan Rau and Reed Abelson, KFF Health News Credit: RDNE Stock project from PexelsThousands of readers reacted to the articles in the “Dying Broke” series about the financial burden of long-term care in the United States. They offered their assessments for the government and market failures that have drained the lifetime savings of so...