Health industry experts predict that such declines will continue as more doctors move into managed care.
Deciding to move your loved one into long-term care does not mean that you have failed as a caregiver.
Nursing homes are not the only institutions moving into subacute care.
It requires that half the state's 2.6 million Medicaid recipients be moved into managed care within five years.
While there, he developed a severe pneumonia, and was moved into intensive care on March 16, 2007.
Scotland has also led the way in moving psychiatrists into primary care.
Should I move my relative with dementia into long-term care?
And the problem is growing, since many companies are moving all their employees into managed care as a cost-saving measure.
Industry shake-outs will probably continue as more of the Medicare population moves into managed care.
I do not know anybody who wants to move out of their own home into residential care, but many people have to and are forced to.