home health care
Medical visits home
Home health care is medical or supportive care provided in a patient's residence rather than in a hospital or facility.
It typically includes nursing services, physical therapy, and assistance with daily activities for people recovering from illness, managing chronic conditions, or aging in place: Medicare covers home health care for eligible patients.
Also styled as home healthcare.
- physical therapyRehabilitative movement-based medical care
- visiting nurseCaregiver who travels to patients
- bedside mannerPhysician's interpersonal approach
- meal preparationReadying food for eating
- medication managementCoordinating drug therapy safely
cognitive therapy · wheelchairs · speech therapy · mobility training · rehabilitation exercises · medical equipment · balance training · fall prevention · hospital beds · glucometers · assisted · respiratory therapy · bedside · caregiver · family caregiver · round the clock · elderly · aging in place
- healthwellness, vitality, fitness, well-being, checkups
- healthcaredoctors, nurses, hospitals, hospital, clinic
- elder caregerontologist, geriatrician, geriatric nurse, geriatric medicine, assisted living
- VA HealthcareVA benefits, VA hospitals, veteran healthcare, veteran benefits, benefits enrollment
- agingaging process, aging body, biological age, aging workforce, aging parents
- social servicessocial workers, social work, social services, welfare office, case workers
home health careinpatient care
Treatment during hospital stay
hospital care · inpatient treatment · institutional care · hospitalization · residential care
home health careacute care
Urgent medical intervention
intensive care · emergency care · critical care · trauma care · inpatient rehabilitation