Long-Term Care Assistance Act of 1988

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Long-Term Care Assistance Act of 1988 - Title I: Establishment of Long-Term Care Benefits Under Medicare Program - Amends part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to cover chronic home care services, including homemaker and chore aide services, furnished to an individual who has dementia and cannot perform at least two activities from a specified list of daily living activities. Imposes an annual $500 deductible and 20 percent copayment requirement on recipients of such benefits. Caps Medicare payments for such services at 65 percent of the average cost of Medicare skilled nursing facility services. Covers home or community-based respite care furnished to an individual who has dementia and is dependent on the uncompensated assistance of a primary caregiver with whom he or she resides in the performance of at least two daily living activities. Limits annual Medicare payments for such services to the lesser of $1,000 or 50 percent of the costs of such care. Covers 70 percent of the costs of chronic nursing home services incurred two years after an individual becomes eligible for such services. Requires that such an individual be su…