Significant factors contributing to the growth of community-based care include: (Select all that apply.)
a. a decrease in the number of available nursing home beds.
b. rapidly escalating health care costs.
c. older adults' preferences to "age in place."
d. inadequate numbers of nurses with geron-tological specialty education.
e. decreasing numbers of family caregivers.
ANS: B, C
Care will continue to move out of hospitals and long-term care facilities because of rapidly esca-lating health care costs and individual preferences to "age in place." There has not been a de-crease in nursing home beds. Although there are inadequate numbers of nurses with gerontologi-cal specialty training, this is not a factor that has impacted the growth of community-based care. There is projected to be a decrease in the number of family caregivers as the caregivers them-selves are aging; however, this does not contribute to the growth of community-based care.
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