Elderly man at a nursing home in Norway. Long-term care (LTC) is a variety of services which help meet both the medical and non-medical needs of people with a chronic illness or disability who cannot care for themselves for long periods.
FDR's policies prolonged Depression by 7 years, UCLA economists calculate. Two UCLA economists say they have figured out why the Great Depression dragged on for almost 15 years, and they blame a suspect previously thought to be beyond reproach: President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Whether the New Deal resolved the Depression or actually lengthened it, is a point of contention. Acccording to Wikipedia, the majority of historians and economists believe that the New Deal helped resolve the Great Depression, but a significant minority of economists believes that it worsened the depression.