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C T Hayashida

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PubMed1992

Providing health care to Hawaii's elderly.

Hawaii's rapidly aging population is a challenge for Hawaii's health care providers. What with the high cost of care, limited health care resources, and a rapidly increasing population of frail elderly patients living in the community, will our medical practices be able to adapt to the care of patients who require more time and who will have not only multiple medical illnesses but complicated psychosocial conditions as well? Will our health care facilities be prepared for the typically longer stay and more expensive older patient? Will the cost of care in Hawaii keep on rising? Who will pay? Will this challenge turn into a crisis?

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PubMed1991

The Maluhia Project: Home Health Care for the Uninsured.

This is a report of preliminary findings of the Maluhia Project: Home Health Care for the Uninsured based on its first 12 months of experience in providing services to clients from September 1989 to August 1990. This Project is now in its third year. This report will initially discuss the rationale for Hawaii's participation in this 5-state national demonstration project. It will cover the basic components of the Hawaii Project and its relative impact followed by a brief description of the clients enrolled. A major component of this program is case management. Given the variety of previous programs that have been referred to as case-management services, a comparison has been provided to note significant differences in approaches and target groups between the Maluhia Project and other existing programs. Finally, this report discusses a number of implementation and public policy issues which have emerged and require further discussion. We hope that as a result of this preliminary report from our first 12 months of operation, it will be possible to inform the medical community of the needs faced by this public health problem that has been previously not addressed.

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