Introduction:Health Care for the Aged❑An increase in the aged population❑Reasons: Longer life expectancy because of advances intechnology and medicines and improved living conditions❑Challenges related to the aged population:❑Health care financing❑Pharmacy benefits❑Health care worker shortage
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Population Growth(Illinois Medicaid, n.d., Exhibit 15)
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Health Care Financing for the AgedProblem #1Poor access to health careCurrent economic crisis and under-funding➢Caused by unemployment, under-employment, andincreased aged populationLowered Medicare and Medicaid funding
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