title: Home health care and the elderly in the 1980s.
abstract: Because the cost of institutional care for long-term patients has risen, home health has become a more visible and viable alternative to the growing elderly population. This article discusses problems found in the rapid expansion of home health services and presents two alternative health care delivery systems that address these problems: the Medicaid Waiver and the Social/Health Maintenance Organization.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003153:Community Health Services / Q000639:trends*; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000639:trends; D006279:Health Maintenance Organizations / Q000639:trends; D006297:Health Services Accessibility / Q000639:trends; D006299:Health Services for the Aged / Q000639:trends*; D006699:Home Care Services / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D008134:Long-Term Care; D008484:Medicaid; D014481:United States