Issue Position: Healthcare and Long Term Nursing Care
Issue Position
Issues: Senior Citizens
Connecticut has one of the fastest aging populations and we currently spend about $2.5 billion a year on long term nursing home care. This spending will inevitably increase as our population lives longer, ages and requires health care services. Many patients are in nursing homes because their level of care demands that they be cared for in that setting. For many others the state should provide them the option of community-based care, which allows patients to stay in the homes that they raised their families in while also preserving their assets and saving taxpayer dollars.
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