Home health care can be defined as a broad spectrum of social and health services offered in the home environment to people in recovery, with disabilities or with chronic illnesses. Home care is a wide range of health care services that you can receive at home in the event of an illness or injury. Home health care is often less expensive, more convenient, and as effective as the care you receive in a hospital or skilled nursing facility (SNF). This chapter describes three presentations that explore the general trends we are currently seeing and how they may affect planning for the future function of home health care.
People who live in retirement communities, assisted living facilities and other environments may not have family members nearby for the conversations at the kitchen table that McCann described.
