Position paper
Home health care, and who is expected to pay for it
Home health care delivers medical professionals to the client’s home on an arranged schedule. Who qualifies, what Medicare covers and where the gaps fall is a question of policy long before it is a question of care.
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Guidance and Resources
5 documents
Choosing a Preferred Home Care Provider
A preferred provider should be sought out deliberately, so that a family is not choosing under time pressure.
Provider selection
2012
Benefits of Community Home Health Care
Inpatient hospitalisation is required for some conditions. Community health care is appropriate for a surprisingly large number of the rest.
Community care
2012
What Is Hospice Care at Home?
Dictionaries define hospice as a care facility. In practice it is a service, and it comes to the house.
Hospice
2012
Comprehensive Rehabilitation Services
What a full rehabilitation programme includes, and which parts of it can be delivered at home.
Rehabilitation
2012
Home Health Care Facility
The difference between a facility and a service, and why the distinction decides who pays.
Definitions
2012
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Medicare and Reform
2 documents
Why the Middle Class Are Affected by Health Care Reform
Reform changes the arithmetic for households that earn too much for assistance and too little to absorb the cost of care.
How Non-rehabilitative Occupational Therapy Will Reduce Medicare Expenditure
Therapy that keeps someone functioning at home is cheaper than the admission it prevents, and it is reimbursed as though it were not.
What community care means
Care delivered where the person lives, by people who come to them. The association exists to keep that definition intact in policy as well as in practice.