... disabilities—not to undervalue health care for those getting long-term care, but to incorporate health care into the context of the functions of daily life (Kane et al., 1998).One reason for the blurred ... institutions.•Due to the blurring of the lines between acute care and long-term care, such as home health care and subacute care, and efforts by states to substitute federal dollars for their own, Medicare ... program for the poor, is the major public program coveringlong-term care for the elderly and for disabled people of all ages. Despite the public’s tremendousinterest in, and demand for, care in the...