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.
Answers.comÂ® is making the world better one answer at a time. How the Depression affected Germany The Great Depression, which began in the United States when the stock market crashed in 1929, profoundly affected the German economy. This is because the US government was providing loans to Germany before the Depression through the Dawes Plan as a way of helping Germany back on its feet.