Long-Term Care Decentralization

Over the last several decades, having the ability to place an aging loved one into an institutional has become the norm. Long-term care based their operations on the concept that all other institutions have, which is to create an autocratic style of management. Schools, prisons, corporations, and other large-scale entities use this model to enable a small number of individuals to control the masses. It might have worked up until now, but the aging population is skyrocketing at such a rate that the current model is on the verge of obsolescence. Smaller clusters of senior care could go on to be the best way in preventing an institutional implosion. Breaking the issue down into individualized services would improve the quality of care an elder received rather than them taking whatever they could get from an industrialized long-term care facility, if they were to receive any help at all.