LTC South of the Border
I recently read this
article from
USA Today about the growing number of Americans going to Mexico for long-term care because the services cost so much less. While the quality of care sounds questionable in many of these facilities, it got me thinking about how other countries deal with long-term care and what we can learn from them.
AAHSA's international arm, IAHSA, works to connect and support care and service providers worldwide.
If you are going to AAHSA's Annual Meeting & Exposition next week in Orlando, check out these sessions sponsored by IAHSA:
- Multiculturalism and Cultural Competence: Session 20-A, Sunday, October 21
Realize that as the world's population ages, aging services providers are experiencing a dramatic change in the ethnic diversification of their workers and older consumers alike.
- Quality Assurance in Long-Term Care: Session 24-B, Monday, October 22
Review findings from an AARP Public Policy Institute study on the long-term care quality assurance systems in England, Australia, Germany, Japan and the United States. Appreciate the range of financing and delivery systems represented by these countries and the variety of strategies used to assure the quality of institutional and home and community services.
Or, if you have the opportunity and the means, you might be interested in attending IAHSA's European Conference, May 22 - 23, 2008 in Vienna, Austria. I know I'd love to. Now, if only I can get that travel request approved...