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Community Health Centers Becoming Medical Homes

When community health centers operate as medical homes, they can provider care more effectively and efficiently.

Doctors seeing need for house calls as seniors age

GREENVILLE, S.C. — Homebound elderly patients who aren't ready for hospice care are benefiting from an old-fashioned concept that's regaining ground across the USA. Dr. Romin Shah makes house calls, and Diana

Elder Care: You won't lose the home

"Perhaps the greatest mistaken fear that we hear is that 'they' will take the home of a person who qualifies for Medicaid to pay for nursing care."

Is It Indigestion or A Heart Attack?

The holiday season can sometimes lead to unhealthy behaviors. We indulge at holiday buffets, enjoy an extra cocktail, skip our regular exercise and stress about everything that needs to be done. Perhaps that’s why there’s an increase in heart-related deaths during the holiday season. After analyzing 25 years of data and 53-million U.S. death certificates, researchers discovered the correlation, with heart-breaking numbers peaking on Christmas, the…

How to Find Free Rides for Seniors Who Live at Home

How to Find Free Rides for Seniors Who Live at Home. Help your parents stay active without busting your budget.

The 6 Signs You Should Eat More Protein

Experts say most people over 50 fall short of their protein requirements. Here's how you can tell if you need to eat more.

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…

How Home Health Providers Are Using Data in End-of-Life Conversations

For many home health patients who are chronically ill, there is a natural progression that takes place: home health is provided, eventually a palliative review is conducted after some period of dec…

Patient-Centered Strategies to Managing Geriatric Chronic Pain in Home Health

The current opioid epidemic in the United States has renewed focus on the importance of non-pharmacologic approaches to management of chronic pain. Physical therapists in home health find the treatment of elderly with chronic pain challenging because of t

How Uber Might Soon Be Delivering Home Health Workers

Soon, Uber may be a more common way for home health workers to reach their clients. The popular ride sharing company recently partnered with Circulation, a Boston-based health care transportation p…

Home Health Research Takes New Cues from Virtual Reality

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin are making home health a “virtual reality.” Through a $2.5 million grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality, a group compr…

The Teach Back Method : Home Healthcare Now

HCAF Members: Test Your Home Health Aides on Communication

As a benefit of membership, HCAF provides agencies with In-Home Aides-Partners in Quality Care, a monthly publication that addresses relevant topics for home health aides. Topics addressed in In-Ho…

How to Choose a Home Health Aide

Information on how to choose a home health aide before making a hiring decision.

Improve Patient Home Health & Overall Independence

Nurses never forget those touching or learning moments with patients. For those who work in home health specifically, you create a special bond with your patients.

Home health system helps give anticoagulated patients greater control

Home health system helps give anticoagulated patients greater controlFor most people, coagulation is one of the human body’s most unnoticed processes, although it is one of the most important. When a wound occurs and a blood vessel is damaged, a blood clot forms to stop the bleeding, which allows healing to beginAbnormal blood clotting can have life-threatening consequences for those suffering from conditions such…