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Anderson IN - Indiana home health agency -- Daybreak & Visiting Nurse Care Llc, Madison County      Click to request assistance
Anderson IN - Indiana Medicare home care -- Saint John's Home Health Care & Hospice, Madison County      Click to request assistance
Anderson IN - Indiana nonmedical home care -- Cj's Abundant Care, Madison County      Click to request assistance
Anderson IN - Indiana home health care services -- Indiana Homecare Network Llc, Madison County      Click to request assistance
Angola IN - Indiana personal home care -- Cameron Home Health Care N Hospice, Steuben County      Click to request assistance
Auburn IN - Indiana home health agency -- Dekalb Memorial Hospital Home Health Services, Dekalb County      Click to request assistance
Batesville IN - Indiana Medicare home care -- Margaret Mary Community Hospital Home Care, Ripley County      Click to request assistance
Bedford IN - Indiana nonmedical home care -- Dunn Memorial Hospital Home Health Care, Lawrence County      Click to request assistance
Bedford IN - Indiana home health care services -- Bedford Regional Medical Center Home Health Care S, Lawrence County      Click to request assistance
Bicknell IN - Indiana personal home care -- Guardian Angel Home Health Care Inc, Knox County      Click to request assistance
Bloomington IN - Indiana home health agency -- Amedisys Home Health Of Bloomington, Monroe County      Click to request assistance
Bloomington IN - Indiana Medicare home care -- Bloomington Hospital Home Health Services, Monroe County      Click to request assistance
Bloomington IN - Indiana nonmedical home care -- Indiana Home Health Care Corporation, Monroe County      Click to request assistance
Bloomington IN - Indiana home health care services -- Lifespan, Inc, Monroe County      Click to request assistance
Brazil IN - Indiana personal home care -- Intrepid Usa Healthcare Services, Clay County      Click to request assistance
Carmel IN - Indiana home health agency -- Nightingale Home Healthcare Inc, Hamilton County      Click to request assistance
Carmel IN - Indiana Medicare home care -- Abc Homecare Llc, Hamilton County      Click to request assistance
Columbus IN - Indiana nonmedical home care -- American Nursing Care Inc, Bartholomew County      Click to request assistance
Connersville IN - Indiana home health care services -- Fayette Regional Health System Home Health, Fayette County      Click to request assistance
Corydon IN - Indiana personal home care -- At-Home Care Of Hospital, Harrison County      Click to request assistance
Crawfordsville IN - Indiana home health agency -- Indiana Home Care Plus, Montgomery County      Click to request assistance
Crown Point IN - Indiana Medicare home care -- Franciscan Home Care Services Inc, Lake County      Click to request assistance
Crown Point IN - Indiana nonmedical home care -- Aaa Hoosier Home Health Care Specialists Inc, Lake County      Click to request assistance
Crown Point IN - Indiana home health care services -- Anchor Home Health Care, Lake County      Click to request assistance
Cumberland IN - Indiana personal home care -- Independent Residential Living Of Indiana, Indianapolis & Marion County      Click to request assistance
Decatur IN - Indiana home health agency -- Home Health Care Agency, Adams County      Click to request assistance
Demotte IN - Indiana Medicare home care -- Clinical Management Services Inc, Jasper County      Click to request assistance
Dyer IN - Indiana nonmedical home care -- American Home Health Services Inc, Lake County      Click to request assistance
Dyer IN - Indiana home health care services -- National Home Health Care Inc, Lake County      Click to request assistance
East Chicago IN - Indiana personal home care -- Home Health Of St Catherine Hospital, Lake County      Click to request assistance
East Chicago IN - Indiana home health agency -- Moore Home Health Care Inc, Lake County      Click to request assistance
Elkhart IN - Indiana Medicare home care -- Elkhart General Home Care, Elkhart County      Click to request assistance
Elkhart IN - Indiana nonmedical home care -- Regional Home Health Care Inc, Elkhart County      Click to request assistance
Evansville IN - Indiana home health care services -- Vibrant Inc, Vanderburgh County      Click to request assistance
Evansville IN - Indiana personal home care -- Amedisys Of Evansville, Vanderburgh County      Click to request assistance
Evansville IN - Indiana home health agency -- American Nursing Care Inc, Vanderburgh County      Click to request assistance
Evansville IN - Indiana Medicare home care -- Specialty Home Health Care Inc, Vanderburgh County      Click to request assistance
Evansville IN - Indiana nonmedical home care -- St Mary's At Home, Vanderburgh County      Click to request assistance
Evansville IN - Indiana home health care services -- Healthset, Vanderburgh County      Click to request assistance
Evansville IN - Indiana personal home care -- Omni Home Care, Vanderburgh County      Click to request assistance
Evansville IN - Indiana home health agency -- Visiting Nurse Association Of Southwestern Indian, Vanderburgh County      Click to request assistance
Evansville IN - Indiana Medicare home care -- Deaconess Home Care, Vanderburgh County      Click to request assistance
Fishers IN - Indiana nonmedical home care -- Community Home Health Services, Hamilton County      Click to request assistance
Flint IN - Indiana home health care services -- Tender Loving Care, Steuben County      Click to request assistance
Flint IN - Indiana personal home care -- Heartland Home Care Flint, Steuben County      Click to request assistance
Fort Wayne IN - Indiana home health agency -- Heartland Home Care, Allen County      Click to request assistance
Fort Wayne IN - Indiana Medicare home care -- Parkview Home Health N Hospice, Allen County      Click to request assistance
Fort Wayne IN - Indiana nonmedical home care -- Amedisys Home Health Of Fort Wayne, Allen County      Click to request assistance
Fort Wayne IN - Indiana home health care services -- Community Home Health Care Inc, Allen County      Click to request assistance
Fort Wayne IN - Indiana personal home care -- Maxim Healthcare Services Inc, Allen County      Click to request assistance
Fort Wayne IN - Indiana home health agency -- Home Nursing Services, Allen County      Click to request assistance
Fort Wayne IN - Indiana Medicare home care -- Visiting Nurse And Hospice Home Inc, Allen County      Click to request assistance
Fort Wayne IN - Indiana nonmedical home care -- Home Care Services Inc, Allen County      Click to request assistance
Fort Wayne IN - Indiana home health care services -- Pediatric Nursing Specialists Of Indiana, Allen County      Click to request assistance
Fort Wayne IN - Indiana personal home care -- St Joseph Hospital Home Care, Allen County      Click to request assistance
Franklin IN - Indiana home health agency -- Johnson Memorial Home Care Services, Johnson County      Click to request assistance
Franklin IN - Indiana Medicare home care -- Americare Home Health Services, Johnson County      Click to request assistance
Gary IN - Indiana nonmedical home care -- Home Health Services Of Gary, Lake County      Click to request assistance
Gary IN - Indiana home health care services -- Bmo Home Health Care Inc, Lake County      Click to request assistance
Gary IN - Indiana personal home care -- Awakened Alternatives Inc, Lake County      Click to request assistance
Gary IN - Indiana home health agency -- Prime Care Home Health Services Inc, Lake County      Click to request assistance
Gary IN - Indiana Medicare home care -- Procare Home Health Services, Lake County      Click to request assistance
Gary IN - Indiana nonmedical home care -- C & A Home Health Care Inc, Lake County      Click to request assistance
Gary IN - Indiana home health care services -- Methodist Home Care Services, Lake County      Click to request assistance
Goshen IN - Indiana personal home care -- Care At Home Services, Elkhart County      Click to request assistance
Greenfield IN - Indiana home health agency -- Hancock Regional Home Health Care & Hospice, Hancock County      Click to request assistance
Greensburg IN - Indiana Medicare home care -- Memorial Hospital Home Health Care, Decatur County      Click to request assistance
Greenwood IN - Indiana nonmedical home care -- St Francis Home Health And Hospice, Johnson County      Click to request assistance
Griffith IN - Indiana home health care services -- Family Home Health Care Inc, Lake County      Click to request assistance
Hammond IN - Indiana personal home care -- St Margaret Mercy Home Care, Lake County      Click to request assistance
Hammond IN - Indiana home health agency -- Caress Health Care Services Inc, Lake County      Click to request assistance
Hammond IN - Indiana Medicare home care -- Ace Pediatric Home Nursing Agency, Lake County      Click to request assistance
Highland IN - Indiana nonmedical home care -- A Plus Home Health Care Inc, Lake County      Click to request assistance
Highland IN - Indiana home health care services -- Quality Home Health Care Inc, Lake County      Click to request assistance
Highland IN - Indiana personal home care -- Comfort Home Health Care Inc, Lake County      Click to request assistance
Highland IN - Indiana home health agency -- Professional Care Home Health Services, Lake County      Click to request assistance
Hobart IN - Indiana Medicare home care -- Home Health Of St Mary Medical Center, Lake County      Click to request assistance
Hobart IN - Indiana nonmedical home care -- Healthmasters Inc, Lake County      Click to request assistance
Huntingburg IN - Indiana home health care services -- Transition Home Health Services Llc, Dubois County      Click to request assistance
Indianapolis IN - Indiana personal home care -- Interim Healthcare Of East Central Indiana, Indianapolis & Marion County      Click to request assistance
Indianapolis IN - Indiana home health agency -- Home Health Care Services Llc, Indianapolis & Marion County      Click to request assistance
Indianapolis IN - Indiana Medicare home care -- American Home Health And Hospice Care Inc, Indianapolis & Marion County      Click to request assistance
Indianapolis IN - Indiana nonmedical home care -- Best Choice Home Care, Indianapolis & Marion County      Click to request assistance
Indianapolis IN - Indiana home health care services -- Visiting Nurse Service Inc, Indianapolis & Marion County      Click to request assistance
Indianapolis IN - Indiana personal home care -- Caregivers Inc, Indianapolis & Marion County      Click to request assistance
Indianapolis IN - Indiana home health agency -- Prime Care Home Health Services, Indianapolis & Marion County      Click to request assistance
Indianapolis IN - Indiana Medicare home care -- Central Home Health Services Inc, Indianapolis & Marion County      Click to request assistance
Indianapolis IN - Indiana nonmedical home care -- Tender Loving Care, Indianapolis & Marion County      Click to request assistance
Indianapolis IN - Indiana home health care services -- At Home - Home Care Services Llc, Indianapolis & Marion County      Click to request assistance
Indianapolis IN - Indiana personal home care -- Joy Health Services Llc, Indianapolis & Marion County      Click to request assistance
Indianapolis IN - Indiana home health agency -- Acme Health Service Inc, Indianapolis & Marion County      Click to request assistance
Indianapolis IN - Indiana Medicare home care -- Tendercare Home Health Services Inc, Indianapolis & Marion County      Click to request assistance
Indianapolis IN - Indiana nonmedical home care -- Advanced Home Care Plus Inc, Indianapolis & Marion County      Click to request assistance
Indianapolis IN - Indiana home health care services -- Allied Home Care, Indianapolis & Marion County      Click to request assistance
Indianapolis IN - Indiana personal home care -- American Nursing Care In, Indianapolis & Marion County      Click to request assistance
Indianapolis IN - Indiana home health agency -- Home Services Unlimited Inc, Indianapolis & Marion County      Click to request assistance
Indianapolis IN - Indiana Medicare home care -- Alpha Home Physical Therapy Inc, Indianapolis & Marion County      Click to request assistance
Indianapolis IN - Indiana nonmedical home care -- Amedisys Of Indianapolis, Indianapolis & Marion County      Click to request assistance
Indianapolis IN - Indiana home health care services -- St Vincent Hospital And Health Services Home Healt, Indianapolis & Marion County      Click to request assistance
Indianapolis IN - Indiana personal home care -- Gentiva Health Services, Indianapolis & Marion County      Click to request assistance
Indianapolis IN - Indiana home health agency -- Intrepid Usa Healthcare Services, Indianapolis & Marion County      Click to request assistance
Indianapolis IN - Indiana Medicare home care -- Nursefinders Of Indianapolis Inc, Indianapolis & Marion County      Click to request assistance
Indianapolis IN - Indiana nonmedical home care -- Clarian Home Care, Indianapolis & Marion County      Click to request assistance
Indianapolis IN - Indiana home health care services -- Alliance Home Health Services Inc, Hamilton County      Click to request assistance
Jasper IN - Indiana personal home care -- Memorial Home Care, Dubois County      Click to request assistance
Jeffersonville IN - Indiana home health agency -- Vna Nazareth Home Care, Clark County      Click to request assistance
Jeffersonville IN - Indiana Medicare home care -- Amedisys Home Health Of Jeffersonville, Clark County      Click to request assistance
Knox IN - Indiana nonmedical home care -- Home Healthcare Services, Starke County      Click to request assistance
Kokomo IN - Indiana home health care services -- Community Home Health Network Of Indiana Llc, Howard County      Click to request assistance
Lafayette IN - Indiana personal home care -- Home Hospital Home Health Care, Tippecanoe County      Click to request assistance
Lafayette IN - Indiana home health agency -- Physicians Homecare Inc, Tippecanoe County      Click to request assistance
Lawrenceburg IN - Indiana Medicare home care -- Personal Touch Home Care Of Indiana Inc, Dearborn County      Click to request assistance
Lawrenceburg IN - Indiana nonmedical home care -- Envision Home Care Alternatives Inc, Dearborn County      Click to request assistance
Lawrenceburg IN - Indiana home health care services -- Dearborn Co Hospital Home Health And Hospice, Dearborn County      Click to request assistance
Linton IN - Indiana personal home care -- Home Health Care, Greene County      Click to request assistance
Madison IN - Indiana home health agency -- King's Daughters' Hospital Home Care Services, The, Jefferson County      Click to request assistance
Madison IN - Indiana Medicare home care -- Home Health Division Of Health De, Jefferson County      Click to request assistance
Marion IN - Indiana nonmedical home care -- Angels Of Mercy Home Health Care Llc, Grant County      Click to request assistance
Marion IN - Indiana home health care services -- Premier Home Health Care Llc, Grant County      Click to request assistance
Martinsville IN - Indiana personal home care -- Heritage Home Health Services Llc, Morgan County      Click to request assistance
Merrillville IN - Indiana home health agency -- Residential Clinical Services Inc, Lake County      Click to request assistance
Merrillville IN - Indiana Medicare home care -- B & B Interim Healthcare Services Inc, Lake County      Click to request assistance
Merrillville IN - Indiana nonmedical home care -- Christian Home Health Services, Lake County      Click to request assistance
Merrillville IN - Indiana home health care services -- Adarna Home Health Care Services Inc, Lake County      Click to request assistance
Merrillville IN - Indiana personal home care -- Home Care Services Of Northwest Indiana, Lake County      Click to request assistance
Merrillville IN - Indiana home health agency -- Option Healthcare Inc, Lake County      Click to request assistance
Michigan City IN - Indiana Medicare home care -- Vna Homecare, Private Duty N Hospice, La Porte County      Click to request assistance
Mishawaka IN - Indiana nonmedical home care -- American Nursing Care Sb, St. Joseph County      Click to request assistance
Mishawaka IN - Indiana home health care services -- Interim Healthcare Of South Bend, St. Joseph County      Click to request assistance
Mishawaka IN - Indiana personal home care -- Saint Joseph Vna Home Care, St. Joseph County      Click to request assistance
Mitchell IN - Indiana home health agency -- Hoosier Uplands Home Health Care, Lawrence County      Click to request assistance
Monticello IN - Indiana Medicare home care -- Home Care Of Memorial Hospital, White County      Click to request assistance
Muncie IN - Indiana nonmedical home care -- Gentiva Health Services, Delaware County      Click to request assistance
Muncie IN - Indiana home health care services -- Care A Lot Homecare Services Inc, Delaware County      Click to request assistance
Muncie IN - Indiana personal home care -- Care One Homecare Services Llc, Delaware County      Click to request assistance
Muncie IN - Indiana home health agency -- Advantage Home Health Care Inc, Delaware County      Click to request assistance
Munster IN - Indiana Medicare home care -- Total Home Health Services Inc, Lake County      Click to request assistance
Munster IN - Indiana nonmedical home care -- Dyna Care Home Health Northwest Indiana Inc, Lake County      Click to request assistance
Munster IN - Indiana home health care services -- Community Home Health Services, Lake County      Click to request assistance
Munster IN - Indiana personal home care -- Anrex Home Care Inc, Lake County      Click to request assistance
Munster IN - Indiana home health agency -- Allpoints Home Health Care Inc, Lake County      Click to request assistance
New Albany IN - Indiana Medicare home care -- Caretenders, Floyd County      Click to request assistance
New Albany IN - Indiana nonmedical home care -- Floyd Memorial Home Health Care, Floyd County      Click to request assistance
New Castle IN - Indiana home health care services -- Hcmh Home Care, Henry County      Click to request assistance
New Haven IN - Indiana personal home care -- New Horizons Home Health Services, Allen County      Click to request assistance
Plainfield IN - Indiana home health agency -- Affinity Home Care Inc, Hendricks County      Click to request assistance
Portage IN - Indiana Medicare home care -- Advanced Home Health Care Incorporated, Porter County      Click to request assistance
Portage IN - Indiana nonmedical home care -- Home Health Crusaders Inc, Porter County      Click to request assistance
Portland IN - Indiana home health care services -- State Of The Heart Home Health And Hospice, Jay County      Click to request assistance
Princeton IN - Indiana personal home care -- Gibson Home Health Services, Gibson County      Click to request assistance
Rensselaer IN - Indiana nonmedical home care -- Hospital Home Health Care N Hospice, Jasper County      Click to request assistance
Richmond IN - Indiana home health care services -- Reid-Anc Home Care Services Llc, Wayne County      Click to request assistance
Richmond IN - Indiana personal home care -- Omni Home Care, Wayne County      Click to request assistance
Rochester IN - Indiana home health agency -- Woodlawn Home Health Care, Fulton County      Click to request assistance
Rushville IN - Indiana Medicare home care -- Rush Memorial Hospital Home Health, Rush County      Click to request assistance
Saint John IN - Indiana nonmedical home care -- Providence Home Health Care, Lake County      Click to request assistance
Schererville IN - Indiana home health care services -- Assured Home Healthcare Inc, Lake County      Click to request assistance
Seymour IN - Indiana personal home care -- Schneck Medical Center Home Health Care, Jackson County      Click to request assistance
Shelbyville IN - Indiana home health agency -- Major Home Care, Shelby County      Click to request assistance
South Bend IN - Indiana Medicare home care -- Center For Hospice And Palliative Care Inc, The, St. Joseph County      Click to request assistance
South Bend IN - Indiana nonmedical home care -- Memorial Home Care Inc, St. Joseph County      Click to request assistance
Sullivan IN - Indiana home health care services -- Community Hospital Home Health, Sullivan County      Click to request assistance
Tell City IN - Indiana personal home care -- Memorial Hospital Home Health & Hospi, Perry County      Click to request assistance
Terre Haute IN - Indiana home health agency -- Wabash Valley Homecare, Vigo County      Click to request assistance
Terre Haute IN - Indiana Medicare home care -- Visiting Nurse Association Of The Wabash Valley In, Vigo County      Click to request assistance
Valparaiso IN - Indiana nonmedical home care -- Associated Homecare Inc, Porter County      Click to request assistance
Valparaiso IN - Indiana home health care services -- Back Home Again Inc, Porter County      Click to request assistance
Valparaiso IN - Indiana personal home care -- Pediatric Nursing Specialists Of Indiana, Porter County      Click to request assistance
Valparaiso IN - Indiana home health agency -- Visiting Nurse Association Of , Porter County      Click to request assistance
Valparaiso IN - Indiana Medicare home care -- Adair Home Health Professionals, Porter County      Click to request assistance
Vincennes IN - Indiana nonmedical home care -- Friends Home Health Care Inc, Knox County      Click to request assistance
Vincennes IN - Indiana home health care services -- Tricare, Knox County      Click to request assistance
Vincennes IN - Indiana personal home care -- Good Samaritan Home Care Services Of Vincennes In, Knox County      Click to request assistance
Wabash IN - Indiana home health agency -- Wabash-Miami Home Health Care N Hospice, Wabash County      Click to request assistance
Warsaw IN - Indiana Medicare home care -- Kosciusko Home Care & Hospice Inc, Kosciusko County      Click to request assistance
Washington IN - Indiana nonmedical home care -- Preferred Home Health Care-Vincennes Inc, Daviess County      Click to request assistance
Washington IN - Indiana home health care services -- Daviess Community Hospital Home Health, Daviess County      Click to request assistance
Winamac IN - Indiana personal home care -- Pulaski Memorial Home Health N Hospice, Pulaski County      Click to request assistance
Winona Lake IN - Indiana nonmedical home care -- Health Force Of Indiana, Kosciusko County      Click to request assistance
Wolcott IN - Indiana home health care services -- Mdm Home Health Care Inc, White County      Click to request assistance

 

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About Home Care Services

Although most home care is provided by family, friends or volunteers, there is a growing trend to hire paid individuals or professionals to provide this care in the home. The hiring of care is prompted by a growing trend for traditional caregivers to be employed full-time and unable to offer much help or for family to live hundreds of miles away from the loved one and find it difficult to offer hands-on long-distance care.

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Home Health Agency Care

 

In the year 2000, about 12,800 home health agencies served approximately 8,600,000 clients across the United States . In that year Medicare paid an estimated 85% to 90% of the total cost of home health agency services amounting to $ 8,700,000,000. Although current figures are not yet available, the number of home health agencies has been going up year after year as well as the number of clients being served.

Although home health agencies are privately owned, Medicare is the principle payer for their services. Home health services through Medicare are available under parts A and B. In order to qualify for Medicare homecare a person must have a skilled need, must be homebound and there must be a plan of care ordered by a Physician.

Prior to 1997 Medicare typically paid for home care for as long as it was needed. Prior to 1997 annual Medicare costs were almost double the amount cited above. In order to save money Medicare has since gone to a prospective payment system where, according to the plan of care, a certain amount of money is allocated to resolve the skilled need for the patient.

Monies are typically provided for a period of up to 60 days. If the patient recovers sooner then money may have to be reshuffled to other patients who are not responding as well. At the point where the patient does not respond or improve, no more Medicare money is forthcoming. After Medicare cuts off, a person continuing to need long-term care services must find sources other than Medicare.

Home health agencies deliver a variety of skilled services. The plan of care usually includes custodial services to help the care-recipient remain in the home. These would include an aide for an hour or two a day to help with bathing, dressing and transferring. If there is time remaining other personal services may be offered as well.

Recently Medicare has redefined what it means by "homebound" to allow recipients to leave the home on a limited basis. Beginning in 2003 and ending three years later, Medicare is testing, with a very small test group, a program where selected home health agencies can provide adult day health care instead of home health services. If successful the program will offer a new dimension in Medicare home care.

In addition, under the new definition, Medicare will also allow and pay for home visits from doctors who specialize in homebound elderly patients. Limited office visits are also allowed under the new definition. Finally, in the past few years Medicare is paying for home telehealth visits through a home telehealth, computer work station. Telehealth is being used with some success to provide home care in rural areas where it would be difficult to arrange the personal visit from a home health care agency.

Personal Care or Non-medical Home Health Care

 

Non-Medical Care Services In The Home.

These providers represent a rapidly growing trend to allow people needing help with long term care to remain in their home or in the community instead of going to a care facility. The services offered may include:

  • companionship
  • grooming and dressing
  • recreational activities
  • incontinent care
  • handyman services
  • teeth brushing
  • medication reminders
  • bathing or showering
  • light housekeeping
  • meal preparation
  • respite for family caregivers
  • errands and shopping
  • reading email or letters
  • overseeing home deliveries
  • dealing with vendors
  • transportation services
  • changing linens
  • laundry and ironing
  • organizing closets
  • care of house plants
  • 24-hour emergency response
  • family counseling
  • phone call checks
  • and much more.

A search of your local Yellow Pages under "home health agencies (or services)" will reveal that a large number of the advertised providers are personal care or non-medical home health companies. This causes some confusion since the yellow pages choose the same classification to list non-medical and traditional home health agencies together.

Personal care agencies are different from traditional home health agencies in that they do not provide medical services or skilled services and they are not paid by Medicare.

In addition, many states do not require personal care agencies to license with the state health department. In some states a person desiring to start a business like this need only advertise, get a business license and start hiring employees. On the other hand, some states require these companies to meet the same stringent rules under which traditional home health agencies operate. This might include hiring trained employees, the use of care plans, periodic inspections by the state health department and bonding.

If you live in a state which does not require regulation of these companies, it is important for you to check the background and history of these providers before using their services. Another benefit for the public is that many of these companies are part of a national franchise system. There are a number of these home care provider franchises around the country. Being a franchise, it is more likely that you can trust the services of the company and not have to worry about theft or abuse with your loved one.

Many larger traditional home health agencies are integrating non-medical services into their care delivery. This means Medicare and Medicaid are not paying the bill for this portion of a home health agency's business. Also many large integrated facilities providers (combined nursing homes, assisted living and independent retirement arrangements) are offering more non-medical or personal home healthcare.

The number of these companies is literally mushrooming all over the country. It is evident from this growth that there is a growing need for traditional family caregivers to contract help from paid care providers. This is probably due to the fact that many of the traditional caregivers are now employed fulltime or are living a long distance away from their loved ones and find it difficult if not impossible to provide long-term care.

Home Repair And Maintenance Services

As a general rule most personal care agencies provide only aides to help with personal needs in the home. Very few offer such things as deep housecleaning, home repairs, remodeling or yard maintenance. There is now a growing trend for companies to specialize in providing these additional services for the elderly. And as with personal care agencies many of these belong to national franchises.

It is evident that there is a growing national need to provide services to allow people to remain in their homes as long as possible. The growth of companies providing these services is evidence that this is a preference for the elderly needing care in the community.