McKnight’s Senior Living April 20, 2021
It’s intuitive; when we get sick, we bundle ourselves into our cars and go to the doctor.
The American healthcare system concentrates its care providers in hospitals, clinics and practices for the sake of efficiency, service quality, and equipment availability. It’s far more convenient to provide care in a centralized facility than it is to schlep doctors, nurses and devices to a patient’s home. In this context, home healthcare appears to be a rarity intended for patients for whom travel is difficult — the last vestige of a care delivery system that fell out of vogue in the early 20th century.
But now, homecare is on the rise.
Understanding the drive toward home healthcare
Since the 1930s, we’ve...
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