Community-based services covered by LTCI
include some former social services such as home help for caregiving
or housekeeping, bath service, loan of devices such as wheelchairs,
and home reconstruction; some former health insurance benefits
such as visiting nurses, rehabilitation, and “medical management”
(supervision of care plans by physicians); and some services that had
been available from both sectors, such as adult day care and temporary
“respite” stays in an institution. To give an idea of the scale of
community-based service provision in the first year, it is estimated
that 200,000 persons will receive visiting nurse services with an
average of 5.6 visits per month, and that there will be eighty million
home-help visits, thirty hours per month per recipient.