A previous study used aggregate (region-level) data to investigate whether home health care serves as a substitute for inpatient hospital care and concluded that "there is no evidence that services provided at home replace hospital services." However, that study was based on a cross-section of regions observed at a single point of time and did not control for unobserved regional heterogeneity. ...

BACKGROUND Several studies have shown that people living in areas underserved in physicians have reduced odds of consulting. However, beyond the magnitude of this effect averaged for the whole population, policymakers need to know whether specific subgroups faced with transportation difficulties, such as the elderly and especially the disabled elderly, have a particularly restricted access to p...

Home health care is a rapidly growing and diversified in­ dustly At the 1988 annual conference of the National Associa­ tion of Home Care, however, the most frequent comment heard by American Occupational Therapy Asso­ ciation (AOTA) representatives was that occupational therapy is the most underutilized service in home health care. The primary reasons given for the underutilization of occupati...

OBJECTIVE This article explores whether the formal home health care (HHC) market is equitable or manifests unexplained racial disparities in use. METHODS The database is the 1994 National Long Term Care Survey. We estimate logit regression models with a race dummy variable, race interaction terms, and stratification by race. We apply the Oaxaca decomposition technique to quantify whether the ...

We propose a new home health care network for the acquisition and transmission of data from ordinary home health care appliances based on IEEE11073. In this study, we develop a standard protocol for data collection and a simple interface to accommodate different monitoring systems that make use of different data protocols. The system provides for one-way data transmission, thus saving power and...

A role of Visiting Nursing Station (VNS) is getting crucial due to recent medical system reformation policy in Japan, to encourage home medical care in place of hospitals. In the future, home health care will be substantial in the aging society and the VNS will play a much more important role. Typical VNS’s are operated by so-called “social entrepreneurs” who are highly motivated in pursuing so...

In this age of modern era, the use of internet must be maximized. Yeah, internet will help us very much not only for important thing but also for daily activities. Many people now, from any level can use internet. The sources of internet connection can also be enjoyed in many places. As one of the benefits is to get the on-line ethical issues in home health care book, as the world window, as ma...

The authors describe a proposed project in which they are developing a methodology for designing ubicomp as a privacy-enhancing technology for family caregiving in home health care. The paper discusses privacy in ubicomp as a design, social, technical, and policy issue; outlines research challenges presented by the technical and social dimensions of using sensor networks as a monitoring technol...

The restructuring of long-term care for older people has been marked both by the role of the market and by the role of migrant labor. This article develops the analysis of these processes at the microlevel of the provision of care. It draws on data collected as part of a cross-national comparative study on the employment of migrant care workers in residential care homes and home care services f...

A choice-theoretic model of household decision-making with respect to care-giving time allocations and the use of publicly and privately financed home care services are proposed. Predictions concerning the effect of increased availability of publicly financed home care services on home care utilization, informal care giving, and health status are derived. These predictions are assessed through ...