Home Health Care News April 13, 2021
Andrew Donlan

Home-based care insiders have been saying for a long time what a wider group of people are now: Care needs to be brought into the home more frequently — and quickly.

But accomplishing that won’t be so simple. In fact, turning the nation’s long-term care system into one that allows more seniors to age in place will be an incredibly difficult feat.

A total transformation of senior care in the U.S. will take more financial assistance for states, a modernization of the current eligibility policies that make it difficult for seniors to receive at-home care and significant investment in the direct care workforce itself.

That’s according to a new Health Affairs article published Tuesday by Washington, D.C.-based research and advisory...

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