{"id":325,"date":"2016-10-07T20:05:27","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T20:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carebuilderspgh.com\/?p=325"},"modified":"2016-10-07T20:05:27","modified_gmt":"2016-10-07T20:05:27","slug":"difference-between-home-care-and-home-healthcare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carebuildersathome.com\/pittsburgh\/blog\/difference-between-home-care-and-home-healthcare\/","title":{"rendered":"Difference Between Home Care and Home Healthcare?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a difference between home care and home healthcare.\u00a0Home health care can be described as being medically necessary care that is performed by a combination of medical professionals, such as a physical therapist, occupational therapist, social worker, registered nurse, or home health aide. The care includes\u00a0health services such as administering medications, changing wound dressings or helping with prescribed exercises. Home health care is ordered for a patient who is being discharged or who needs medical attention at home. On the other hand, home care can be described as the assistance a person receives with activities of daily living (ADLs) because they are unable to do those things themselves. ADLs include dressing, grooming, bathing, toileting, walking, and eating. Doctors and hospitals do not typically have involvement with coordinating home care services- it is up to the family or individual who needs it.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>The Difference Between Home Care and Home Healthcare<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h4><strong>HOME HEALTH: PRIMARILY GOVERNMENT-FUNDED CARE<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Sources of financing for the two services also differ. The majority of funding for home health \u2014 73 percent or $44.3 billion \u2014 comes from government programs, primarily Medicaid and Medicare. To administer home health care, a provider \u2013 a nurse, a therapist, a home health aide or a social worker \u2013 makes intermittent visits to the home to perform a specific task. \u00a0This makes home healthcare \u00a0<strong><em>task- oriented<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>HOME CARE: PRIMARILY FAMILY-FUNDED CARE<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>The majority of home care services are privately paid for by the families or seniors benefiting from the care. Much of home care or private duty services revolves around a caregiver being present in the home during a specific span of time. Families and consumers rely on caregivers for their presence in the home. In this case, home care services are primarily\u00a0<em><strong><ins>time-oriented<\/ins><\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a difference between home care and home healthcare.\u00a0Home [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":163,"featured_media":315,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Difference Between Home Care and Home Healthcare? - Pittsburgh<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.carebuildersathome.com\/pittsburgh\/blog\/difference-between-home-care-and-home-healthcare\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Difference Between Home Care and Home Healthcare? 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