Health care services for homebound aged maintain independence, limit costs.
Aged, homebound people suffer from a complex of problems too diverse for one health worker to handle successfully. Comprehensive programs using hospital-based health care teams to provide services for these people in their own homes can forestall enforced transfer to a long-term care facility or unattended death.
D000368:Aged; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D006299:Health Services for the Aged / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006699:Home Care Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006746:Hospital Bed Capacity, 500 and over; D006761:Hospitals; D006801:Humans; D009519:New York City; D010348:Patient Care Team