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2. Home care in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Home health care is medical in nature and is provided by licensed, skilled healthcare professionals. Home health care providers deliver services in the client's own home. Professional home health services may include medical or psychological assessment, wound care, pain management, disease education and management, physical therapy, speech ...

3. Home care - Wikipedia

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   Homecare is also known as domiciliary care, social care or in-home care. [2] [3] It comprises a range of activities, especially paramedical aid by nurses and assistance in daily living for ill, disabled or elderly people. Clients receiving home health care may incur lower costs, receive equal to better care, and have increased satisfaction in ...

4. What Are ADLs and How They’re Measured - WebMD

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   The term ADL was first introduced by Sidney Katz in 1950. It’s a collective term for all the basic skills you need in regular daily life. These include: Ambulating. This includes the ability to ...

5. Understanding Medicare Coverage for Home Health Aides

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   Medicare covers some aspects of these home health services, including physical and occupational therapy as well as skilled nursing care. However, Medicare doesn’t cover all home health services ...

6. Home health nursing - Wikipedia

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   Home health care is a cost efficient way to deliver quality care in the convenience of the client's home. [2] Home health nurses create care plans to achieve goals based on the client's diagnosis. These plans can include preventive, therapeutic, and rehabilitative actions. [1] Home health nurses also supervise certified nursing assistants.

7. Holistic Medicine: A Comprehensive Guide - WebMD

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   Holistic medicine is a form of healing that considers the whole person – body, mind, spirit, and emotions – in the quest for optimal health and wellness. According to the holistic medicine ...

8. Critical, Stable, or Fair: Defining Patient Conditions - WebMD

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   In the media, hospital terms that describe a patient’s condition -- like critical, fair, serious, stable -- are vague by design. They give you just a general sense of how someone is doing, which ...

9. What Is Hospice Care? - Healthline

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   Hospice is medical care designed for the end of someone’s life. The purpose of hospice is to improve the quality of life that’s left. Hospice provides pain and other symptom relief, as well as ...