Home care may lead to cost-efficient management of frail elderly patients.
House calls make a return in new model of care for frail elderly. Care for such patients is often so fragmented and expensive that the pioneers behind a Woodland Hills, CA, company believe that they can do a better job at less expense by delivering care in the home and giving patients direct access to their physicians at any time of the day or night. Some commercial health plans have already bought into the approach, and now CMS is taking a close look at the model as part of a three-year demonstration project.
D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational / Q000191:economics*; D016330:Frail Elderly; D006699:Home Care Services / Q000191:economics* / Q000458:organization & administration; D006792:House Calls; D006801:Humans