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Show Home health care booklet available for senior citizens health care; what services home health care agencies provide; where the family fits in; how the home should be equipped; how to choose these services; and what services are covered by medical insurance, Medicare and Medicaid. Booklet author Dr. Alan Nourse frequently writes on medical topics and publishes regularly in national magazines. A free copy of the booklet can be obtained by calling or writing: A Guide to Home Health Care, Upjohn HealthCare Services, 155 E. 300 South, Suite 206, Provo, Utah 84R01 (801) 373-1245. The helpful booklet, "A Guide to Home Health Care," by Alan E. Nourse, M.D., is available free to seniors who want to learn more about the comfortable and less costly alternatives to hospital and institutional care. It is one of a series of free pamphlets being offered of-fered by the Upjohn HealthCare Services "Seniors Wellness Program" to assist seniors who want to lead a healthy, safe and independent life. "This authoritative, 16-page booklet is being distributed as a public service," according to Becky Anderson, who manages the Upjohn HealthCare Services (UHCS) office in Provo. UHCS is the nation's oldest and largest private provider of home health care services. The Provo office has been in operation since 1980. Home health care providers have become increasingly important in recent years as the nation searches for new ways to provide better health care at a reduced cost. Home health care can. enable people to avoid or shorten hospital or nusing home stays and be cared for in the comfort of their own homes. The American Medical Association (AMA) reports that, "recent studies have cited home health care as being an identifiable cost-containment strategy and an essential component of the health care delivery system." The AMA goes on to say home health care can provide "more rapid patient recovery and improved im-proved patient emotional well-being, well-being, earlier discharge from the hospital, reduction in hospital readmissions, and savings over the costs of institutional care." Among other things, the booklet explains who can benefit from home |
