The Challenges to Long-Term Care: A Personal Account

The challenges to long-term care come from many directions. In this article, the focus is on the changing nature of expectations and experiences of aging in three generations of a middle class family. This personal account details the way in which these generational expectations have changed, and what the long-term care system provides. Continuing care communities provide a setting for the older generation, but changing economic circumstances raise questions about how society will provide adequate long-term care for the next cohort of elders.