The home- and community-based services industry has changed drastically over the last decade, from different payer mixes to ...

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With a slew of high-profile home-based care headlines in 2025, some stories inevitably slipped under the radar. These Home ...

Little is known about the characteristics of the workforce providing home-based medical care for traditional (fee-for-service) Medicare beneficiaries. We found that the number of participating home ...

For those without insurance, free or reduced-cost medical care may be available through Medicaid, charity care, community clinics, walk-in clinics, and urgent care centers. Strategies for saving money ...

Finding an aide to help an older person stay at home safely takes work. Here’s a guide. By Reed Abelson Most older Americans want to live at home as long as they can, but finding and affording the ...

Many aging adults would prefer to age in place and stay home longer rather than move to an assisted living facility or nursing home. Most people recognize, though, that living at home alone can be ...

What goes around, comes around. It was routine in the 1950’s for doctors to make house calls and deliver a high level of service to their patients. Well, here we are in 2021, and we might be going ...

Home health and personal care aides are one of the largest groups of health care workers in the US, with nearly three million people providing direct care for people with serious illness living in the ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) and algorithmic decision-making systems — algorithms that analyze massive amounts of data and make predictions about the future — are increasingly affecting Americans’ ...