Winter Home Health Check-Up: Three Areas to Examine Now
A step-by-step home check-up guide to find warning signs and advice on how to repair them.
How Home Health Can Improve Fall Rates and Readmissions
Home health can play a significant role in reducing the number of emergency room readmissions among seniors after a fall, according to a new study focused on why older adults end up back at the hos…
What Are the Duties of a Home Health Aide?
Home health aides are caring, compassionate individuals who are looking for ways to make an impact on the lives of others. This blog offers a glimpse into a day in the life of home health aides.
What is Home Health Care?
Why choose home health care?
Home health care is available to provide support to older adults and their families.
Tips on hiring in-home health providers
Q: My husband and I are in no way wealthy but it appears we are over-income for all subsidized in-home services. I can’t continue caring for him all by myself
How to Choose a Home Health Aide
Information on how to choose a home health aide before making a hiring decision.
Tips for a More Engaged Home Health Workforce
Recruitment and retention are top of mind for the home health industry, with staffing needs emerging as an increasingly dire concern. Given the constant stream of studies and statistics released ab…
How to Pick the Right Home Health Agency
This is what I would tell a family member if they asked me how to pick the right home health agency
How Universal Design is Helping Home Health Providers Improve Care
Home health providers small and large are more commonly thinking about home design as an important tool for keeping patients safe, comfortable and away from hospitals. To hone that design know-how,…
How the ‘Re-Engineered Hospital’ Presents a Home Health Opportunity
Some big thinkers believe that the heart of the U.S. health care system is shifting away from hospitals and other institutional settings, into people’s homes. Those who need proof that this occurri…
Why should I consider a career in home health care?
Whether you’re looking to start a new career or you’ve had experience in other industries and are looking for a change, a career in healthcare is worthwhile the time. Consider these to…
How to Manage Caregiver Guilt When Hiring a Home Health Aide
Family caregivers often feel guilty about hiring in-home care for their aging loved ones, but there are steps you can take to feel at peace with this care decision.
How Do You Get Dependable Home Health Care?
Learn how to find dependable home health care to help your loved one get the care they need and give you peace of mind. Read more.
3 Common Areas of Risk in Home Health & How to Address Them
What makes health care in the home or community setting risky business? Unsafe home environments, daily travel and frequent patient handling are just a snapshot of the struggles that caregivers may face.
Could You Afford Home Health Care? Maybe Not
Only two out of five older adults with significant disabilities have the assets on hand to pay for at least a couple of years of extensive in-home care, researchers found.
Medicare's home health care rules to focus more on prevention
Home health care will focus less on acute care and more on health maintenance.
Home health care and hospice: how they differ, who is eligible
To accomodate the aging population in the U.S., demand for home health care services is on the rise.
Home Health Care and In Home Care: What Do They Do?
Home health care and in home care sound the same, but are two different services. Get a quick comparison chart and find out how they can be used together.
Why Home Health Care Is Suddenly Harder To Come By For Medicare Patients
Medicare has changed how it pays for services. In response, agencies across the country are firing therapists, limiting physical, occupational and speech therapy, and terminating services for some …
