The Inevitability of Reimagining Long-Term Care

Long-term care has been reimagined for as long as it’s been recognized, which in part explains the multitude of options that emerged during the mid-20th century growth of formal long-term care support in the United States and other developed nations.1 The articles in JAMDA’s special issue on Reimagining Long-Term Care propose ways to further reimagine care going forward; this editorial calls the question as to whether we’ll ever stop reimagining long-term care, and posits that we won’t, for better and for worse.