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The Health-Care Needs of AIDS Patients: Parallels with the Elderly

AIDS & Public Policy Journal 6, no. 2 (Summer 1991): 83-7
Ernestine S. Pantel

This article examines three questions that must be answered in order to develop and make available a responsive home- and community-based component in a comprehensive, long-term care system for persons with HIV-related illnesses: 1) What service model will form the framework for system design? 2) How will access to the system be controlled? and 3) How will services be funded?
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