CHAP Bringing ‘Age-Friendly Health Systems’ Initiative Into The Home

Community Health Accreditation Partner (CHAP) has received part of a $2.3 million grant from The John A. Hartford Foundation (JAHF) to bring the Age-Friendly Health Systems movement to home-based care.  Broadly, the age-friendly framework is a patient-centered care focus. It concentrates on the “4Ms” – what matters, medication, mentation and mobility. The first “M” pertains […]

The Fastest Growing Companies In Home-Based Care

A number of home-based care providers – and businesses in the aging services sector at large – are among some of the nation’s fastest-growing companies. In fact, these companies recently grabbed a spot on Inc. 5000’s annual ranking. Companies such as connectRN, Entrusted Pediatric Home Care, BarbaraKares In-Home Care Services, Connect Pediatrics and Electronic Caregiver […]

Study Shows Home-Based Caregivers Can Help Stave Off Dementia

Seniors aged 60 and older who partake in long hours of sedentary behaviors have a higher risk of developing dementia. That’s according to a new study from University of Southern California and University of Arizona researchers. About 6.5 million people in the U.S., age 65 and older, are living with Alzheimer’s disease in 2022. This […]

How Home-Based Care Providers Take On Risk To Avoid Risk

Taking risk has been a hot topic on the home health and home care conference circuits for some time now. That will heat up more moving forward. Two realities are driving providers to take on risk themselves. Home health providers, in particular, could be in sink-or-swim territory in five months. All the while, payers have […]

How One Home Care Provider Is Altering Its Client Payment Structure

The home care provider Pop-in Care has introduced a new pricing structure that will give discounts to families for its in-home care services. The company already operates with a model based on short visits without minimum hourly or weekly time or visitation requirements. With that model in place, the new pricing structure will incentivize families […]

Integrated Home Care Services Names New CEO; Honor Appoints CFO

Integrated Home Care Services hires new CEO Integrated Home Care Services Inc. has named Christopher Bradbury as the company’s new CEO. Bradbury succeeds Jorge Pereda, who has served as CEO since the company’s inception. Pereda will now serve as chairman of the board. “After building successful companies throughout the last 30 years, I am excited […]

MA-Home Care Referrals Skyrocketing, healthAlign Data Reveals

The convener platform healthAlign has a front-row seat to see how home care is being utilized in Medicare Advantage (MA). Andy Friedell, the company’s founder and CEO, has always been bullish on home care’s growing prevalence in MA, even when providers began to shy away from it a bit after initial excitement over supplemental-benefit updates […]