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Getting Started
What is Home Care?
Seniors want to stay and receive needed care at home. It contributes to familiarity and comfort. To remain safe at home, it requires planning and evaluation.
Home Health Care vs. Non-Medical Home Care
The important difference to know about home health care vs non-medical home care is the level of medically skilled care administered by home health care agencies
Home Health Care Services
The purpose of home health care is to treat an acute chronic illness, terminal sickness, an injury or post-surgery hospital or rehab event
Non-Medical Home Care Services
Non-medical home care allows adults to age in place as they get older for as long as they remain in reasonably good health and they're safe.
How is Home Care Different from Other Care Options?
When choosing senior care options, weigh options and understand the advantages and disadvantages of different types of care services
When is Home Care Needed?
It's no surprise that close to 90% of seniors living in the U.S. want to age in place. Home care offers services that help seniors when needed.
Benefits of Home Care
The biggest advantage of in-home care for seniors; it allows older adults to age in place and avoid making the move to an institution
Talking to a Loved One
One of the toughest conversations a family has with an aging relative is convincing them to get help
Choosing Home Care
Selecting a Home Care Agency
Being a consumer, it's imperative that the research and due diligence is thorough before choosing and hiring help for care at home.
Medicare Quality Data
Understand the Medicare Quality Ratings for Home Care Agencies
Hospice Care
Hospice Care is available to individuals at the end-of-life stage to receive care at home, in a hospital, nursing home, or a private hospice facility.
Home Care Safety
Seniors and families choose home care over assisted living and nursing home facilities. When choosing home, be sure to make it safe.
Considering Home Care Staff
When hiring a home care agency, consider if they're accredited and certified and commited to certain performance standards
Paying for Home Care
Home Health Care Costs
The home care costs for each state are listed according the the cost of home health care in the state. The list of in home care cost allows you to see how the costs vary across the country.
Ways to Pay for Home Care
Ways to pay for home care services, include out-of-pocket, health insurance policies, long-term care policies, Medicare and Medicaid.
Medicare and Home Care
The home health care services that Medicare covers for patients at home have restrictions. Medicare does not cover in-home care.
Medicaid and Home Care
Medicaid home care coverages are not limited to medical care and the coverage doesn't run out when a an older person's medical condition stabilizes.
Does Insurance Cover Home Care
To help cover potential long-term and senior care expenses, you'll find that only few insurance policies pay for the care costs.
Using a Reverse Mortgage to Stay Home
Using a Reverse Mortgage to Cover Home Care Costs
For Caregivers
Family Caregivers
Family caregivers provide daily living and medical help to a relative or friend at home, in a residential care setting; or medical facility
The Role of Caregivers
The role of a family caregiver gives physical, emotional care and/or financial assistance to an aging relative, to an ill or disabled loved one
Caregiving Tips
Family members and primary caregivers feel alone at times. But despite caregiving challenges, it's rewarding. To make the caregiving tasks easier, these tips will help.
Consumer Medication Adherence Education
Older people take more medicines for chronic conditions, so the drug side-effects is a higher risk for them. Consumer education helps reduce the risk of adverse events.
For Staff and Owners
Finding Home Care Jobs
With a rapid increase in the aging population, the U.S. Department of Labor estimates a 20% increase in caregiver and CNA jobs
Opening a Home Care Agency
Home Care is the fastest growing segment of senior healthcare in America. Here are steps to take to open one
Experts Weigh In
Hope for Family Caregivers Who Give So Much
The RAISE act offers some help for the family caregiver.
How to Make Home Care Affordable for Every Budget
Experts discuss how to make home care more affordable
Home health care companies offer a wide range of skilled medical services such as nursing care, physical therapy and occupational therapy from qualified medical professionals in addition to various services from home health aides. Other home care companies might offer assistance with daily activities, such as bathing and eating. Home care services are conducted in the comfort of your home.
HomeHealthCareAgencies.com has compiled extensive home health care information such as licensing requirements and state contacts. We offer a directory of 11,629 Medicare-certified home health agencies and 24,200 other home care companies in the United States.
