Hey, kiddies, try googling Eldercare and see what comes up. Bet you'll get a bunch of services for the elderly in whatever corner of the country your smart phone detects. Even the oracle Wikipedia defines it as a nickname for "elderly care." That's probably because most Wikicontributors were born after 1960. On the other hand, my aging memory of Eldercare is a bit different...
In 1965, Medicare was being debated before the Congress. Terrified of what Medicare might do to their members' bloated incomes, the American Medical Association pushed Congress to pass an alternate proposal called—you guessed it—Eldercare. It was just like Medicare, except it was left to the states to voluntarily implement, and abject poverty was a prerequisite. In other words, you could wipe your derriere with it.
Thanks to Congressmen like Arizona's Mo Udall, who vigorously defended Medicare against a barrage of protest that it was "socialized medicine," today's seniors are able to stay healthy without they or their families being driven into bankruptcy. Life expectancy has increased by about six years since then, with significant improvement in the quality-of-life. And Eldercare? It is now most gratefully defined as a generic contraction for services provided to the elderly—many of which are covered by Medicare!
Those of us who were around during the '60s are ever grateful that enlightened, brave congressmen like Mo Udall walked the earth—and that today's virulent right-wing punditry didn't.