But slashing home care services for vulnerable seniors is an especially bad way to do it.
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It provides high-quality home care services to the elderly and disabled.
For instance, a package of home care services and help with diet and transportation could greatly improve the quality of life for a senior with congestive heart failure and help her avoid the kind of health crisis that would result in a hospitalization.
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More than 1 million seniors would lose homemaker services and 1.5 million would lose in-home personal care services.
Two thumbs down on cutting home health care services.
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Services for seniors currently provided include home care, adult protective services, transportation and nutrition.
After 65, they will receive various home and nursing-care services at reduced rates.
As MPs debated Lords amendments to the Personal Care at Home Bill on 30 March 2010, Care Services Minister Phil Hope revealed that the government would not seek to overturn an amendment made in the Lords which would delay enactment of the bill until the next Parliament.
Those services, which can take many forms from help with care at home to early intervention services, are already being squeezed.
Social services, home care, education, environmental health, housing, planning, transport, refuse collection, catering, cleaning.
Medicare did not pay for long-stay nursing home care, home health aides, or other long-term care services before this lawsuit, and it will not do so now.
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It means only 1.2 million are getting formal care either at home or in a care home - although some of these are being forced to pay for the services themselves anyway, as they exceed the income cap.
First there is the cost to families and, through social care services, at home.
Hospitals run for profit are also less likely than nonprofit and government-run institutions to offer services like home health care and psychiatric emergency care, which are not as profitable as open-heart surgery.
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It adds funding to programs that provide transportation help, adult day care, and in-home services including aides to help bathe and cook.
WhiteGlove brings primary and chronic care services to its members at home or the office 365 days a year, 8am to 8pm.
By pooling resources, creating an administrative post and purchasing services such as handyman or home care as a group, these villages help people stay in their own homes longer.
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It also say that "underlying all of the events that took place is the consequence that the child of A was not able to continue to benefit from the services offered by the care home".
They are also concerned that community services to care for people at home may not be adequate.
The spokesperson said that planned changes to community services, such as "home enhanced care" will provide alternatives to hospital admission in the future.
The Independent Foster Care Services said it provided a warm home for the girl and said it was not their choice for her to leave.
Slowly but surely, more people who receive Medicaid benefits for long-term supports and services are getting their care at home rather than in nursing facilities.
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"They're people with health insurance, but it's not covering the co-pays, the deductibles, some of the drug costs, the dental care that may be needed, the home services, " says Robert Blendon, who runs polling programs for the Harvard School of Public Health.
Most people who need supports and services want to get that care at home.
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There are more than 1.5 million nursing-home beds nationwide that provide intensive health- and personal-care services to the elderly.
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If the home services are cut, many will not get the care they need, resulting in far more expensive illnesses that will cost taxpayers more money than what the proposed cuts would save.
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That includes her co-pays and services provided by her doctors, nurses and home health care aides.
Cut home-health services and the sick or disabled will lose health care and caregivers will lose their jobs.
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