Home Health Care News April 30, 2024
A new study found that post-acute patients and caregivers greatly prefer home-based care to facility-based care, although with some caveats.
Published in JAMA, the study’s results came from an eight-question survey conducted in September 2022 of over 1,500 adults aged 45 and older. The survey dissected the participants’ willingness and preference to pay for certain services, such as skilled nursing facility (SNF) care versus home health care.
“Using a discrete choice experiment, participants acting as patients or caregivers chose between facility-based and home-based post-acute care that best met their preferences, needs and family conditions,” the study authors explained. “Survey weights were applied to generate nationally representative estimates.”
Broadly, patients were willing to pay an additional $58 per day for home...
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