The Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) is a very original healthcare program designed to keep the elderly in their communities and help them with everyday life. This kind of program combines medical practices with social and long-term care into one. All these services are provided in a coordinated manner.

Key Features of PACE

• • Comprehensive Care: This organization ensures that PACE covers all therapies and services provided under Medicare, Medicaid, and additional medically necessary facilities and services not covered by these programs. Aside from this PACE also has daignosis, treatment, recovery.

• • Interdisciplinary Team: Team members include specialists such as physician, nurse, therapist, and social worker.

• • Community-Based: Such services are either provided in PACE centers or at homes. This helps the PACE program members to stay where they live in a better environment.

• • Preventive Care: Home is not a hospital. The main healthcare field in any medical facility is medical services. Nevertheless, if a patient visits a hospital, preventive practices play a grounding role. The more emphasis is laid upon how to remain prevent it.

• • Flexibility: It is a program that can be adjusted to the different needs of its participants over time.

Services Provided

The range typically includes certain services like:

• • Primary and specialist physician care

• • Nursing care

• • Physical, occupational, and recreational therapy

• • Meals and nutritional counseling

• • Social services

• • Home care and personal care assistance

• • Prescription drugs

• • Dental, hearing, and vision care

• • Medical equipment and supplies

• • Transportation to PACE center and medical appointments

Eligibility

The PACE is available if you are:

• • More than or equal to 55 years of age.

• • Living in a PACE service area.

• • Certified by the state as needing a nursing home-level care.

• • Able to live safely in the community with PACE services.

Benefits of PACE

• • Encourages the elders to continue living at home and in the community if they wish so and are able to.

• • Provides comprehensive, coordinated care.

• • Reduces hospitalization and nursing home admissions by 20% and 24%, respectively, when compared to the traditional care settings.

• • Contributes to a better quality of life for the group of people.

• • Challenges the caregivers’ abilities to understand and assist the older adults in different situations.

PACE suggests a new vision of elder care–a model in which the elders, while maintaining maximum independence and quality of life, include health and social services as part of the services received. For elderly who are eligible, it is one of the best options available.