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The non-profit sector and community-based care for the elderly in the U.S.: A disappearing resource?

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  • Estes, Carroll L.
  • Wood, Juanita B.

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Non-profit health and social service agencies have traditionally been an extremely important element of non-institutional community-based care for the elderly in the U.S. Policy shifts, commencing in 1981, increasingly concerned with medical cost containment are challenging private non-profit sector agencies delivering care to the elderly. At issue is the ability of communities to maintain a viable service sector predicted on service needs and service accessibility, as opposed to a highly discrete, medicalized, and fragmented service delivery system that is available primarily (or only) to those who can pay.

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  • Estes, Carroll L. & Wood, Juanita B., 1986. "The non-profit sector and community-based care for the elderly in the U.S.: A disappearing resource?," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 23(12), pages 1261-1266, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:socmed:v:23:y:1986:i:12:p:1261-1266
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