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Long-term care goes beyond medical care and nursing care to include all the assistance you could need if you ever have a chronic illness or disability that leaves you unable to care for yourself for an extended period of time. You can receive long-term care in a nursing home, assisted living facility, or in your own home. Though older people use the most long-term care services, a young or middle-aged person who has been in an accident or suffered a debilitating illness might also need long-term care. Long term care services are needed most when you or a loved one cannot perform certain "activities of daily living" (ADLs), or is cognitively impaired for example, as with Alzheimer's disease. |