Improving Access to Noninstitutional Long-Term Care for American Indian Veterans

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Describes program models to expand Native American veterans' access to home-based primary care (HBPC), which provides non-institutional long-term care to homebound veterans. Overviews emerging models of HBPC and co-management developed by Veterans Affairs Medical Centers in collaboration with tribes and Indian Health Service facilities. Also includes several models that expanded HBPC access for non-native as well as Native American rural veterans.

Betty J. Kramer, Beth Creekmur, Sarah Cote, Debra Saliba

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 63(4), 789-796

04/2015

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Access · American Indian or Alaska Native · Long-term care · Veterans