Home Care vs. Home Health Care
All Home Care Matters
Enriched Life Home Care Services
5.0 • 88 Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2020
⏱️ 14 minutes
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A topic that most people are not very familiar with is what’s the difference between home care and home health care? There could be some of you right now that may not realize there is any difference. We find often that these two words are used interchangeably and even by professionals in the health care field. In this episode we are going to examine and talk about what exactly the difference is.
This will help differentiate the often times confusing use of the words home care and home health care and help you to better understand the differences and to know what they do and don’t provide and yes, they complement each other in the services they offer and can coexist but you do not need to use one in order to use the other. Many families receive help with one of these services while not needing the other.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Home Care Matters, the show where we discuss all things home care, with discussions on important age-related matters and topics. |
| 0:08.9 | Brought to you by Enriched Life Home Care Services, the number one rated home care provider in Michigan by Top Rated Local. |
| 0:17.8 | Hello, welcome to Home Care Matters. |
| 0:20.3 | Thank you so much for taking time out of your day to join us here on the show. |
| 0:24.0 | We have a very interesting topic for you today, and that is what is the difference between home care and home health care? |
| 0:31.0 | Now, I can imagine some of you right now may not have known there was any difference, and that's okay, |
| 0:36.1 | because we hear these two words |
| 0:38.5 | used interchangeably all the time, even by professionals. |
| 0:42.2 | So we thought we would take some time and explain the differences between these very different |
| 0:47.2 | yet very important fields in the health care industry. |
| 0:51.0 | In fact, right now, the life expectancy is on average 79 years old. |
| 0:58.4 | Now, compare that to 1950 when the life expectancy was only 68 years old. |
| 1:04.6 | We're going to need as much support and resources and help for our communities as our baby boomers continue to age. |
| 1:13.0 | In fact, right now, Americans, 65 years old or older, are projected to reach 98 million in our population by the year 2016. |
| 1:24.4 | That's almost double where we're at right now. |
| 1:27.3 | So you can see how these two fields |
| 1:29.3 | are going to even play a more critically important role as we continue to age. So we'll first start |
| 1:37.2 | with professional home care services. Professional home care services is defined as being |
| 1:43.0 | non-medical or non-skilled home care. |
| 1:46.8 | Now, the key phrase here is non-medical or non-skilled because that's to help differentiate |
| 1:52.6 | between home health care services or skilled care services. |
| 1:58.6 | Now, if you or anyone you know has ever used or needed professional home care |
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