Home Health Care News October 21, 2021
Andrew Donlan

Close to 90% of older adults want to receive care in their homes as they age, according to a study conducted earlier this year by the AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

But outside of just aging in place in general, during the COVID-19 crisis, individuals of all ages have also become more aware of the option to receive care in their homes.

Giving patients that option to choose where – and also how – they want to be cared for is likely to become one of the major transformations in the U.S. health care system in the coming years, Alan Wheatley, the retail segment president at Humana (NYSE: HUM), said at Better Medicare Alliance’s Medicare Advantage 2021 Conference on...

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