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handle is hein.amenin/aeiaclw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: EDITED BY SEAN SULLIVAN AND MARION EIN LEWIN This book is a powerful and important contribution to the growing debate on long term care. The authors examine in depth the central issues that confront the elderly and the disabled.. . . Given the urgency and centrality of this issue in U.S. health policy and its fresh and well grounded perspective, this book will be a valuable resource to policy makers, scholars, and practitioners seeking to design and implement a responsible and responsive long term care policy. -CARROLL L. ESTES Director, Institute for Health and Aging University of California, San Francisco How well does our medical system provide for the aged and disabled who require chronic care? Can we reshape public policies to finance services not within the traditional medical model? As chronic illness and disability become the most important health care problem, how should this model be altered? The chapters in this volume include: * Chronic Illness, Disability, and Increasing Longevity, by Dorothy P. Rice and Mitchell P. LaPlante * Financing Long-Term Care: A Major Obstacle to Reform, by Judith W. Meltzer * Is Medical Care the Right Prescription for Chronic Illness? by Arthur L. Caplan * Policies and Programs Concerning Aging and Disability: Toward a Unifying Agenda, by Irving Kenneth Zola * The Treatment of Women under Medicare, by Shelah Leader Sean Sullivan is vice president of New Directions for Policy, a consulting firm in Washington, D.C. He is coauthor of Buying Smart: Business Strategies for Managing Health Care Costs (AEI, 1986). Marion Ein Lewin has cowritten and edited several health policy volumes for the American Enterprise Institute. She is currently a senior staff officer and director of health policy fellowship programs at the In- stitute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences in Wash- ington, D.C. Both were scholars at the Center for Health Policy Research at AEI during the research and preparation of this book. 0-8447-3646-5