What Does LTC Mean To You ?

Long term care is services provided to millions of people in the United States that suffer from a chronic illness or disability. To me, long term care is an opportunity that is provided by the government for the citizens of this great country. What this means to me is that if a chronic illness or a disability presented itself in my life, I would have services to help my life be better. No matter if it's to help with my medical condition or for my personal needs.

Lets play this example. While serving my country in Iraq, I lose two of my libs. I am now transferred back home to do intensive physical therapy with my new prosthetics at an assisted living facility. While living in this facility, the qualified staff is teaching me how to do daily functions that I thought I would never do again, especially not by myself. Just knowing that these services are provided to people that need them, even if I do not use them in my life, makes me feel very grateful.

So with all that being said, long term care means a great deal to me. It means that if something happens to me while I'm in the military, my country has these services to help me regain my daily ways of living. That I will have a safe and sterile place to recuperate because thousands of people in third war countries do not have this luxury.