Home care is the most widespread alternative to nursing-home care, a spectrum of services involving everything from round-the-clock skilled nursing to a few hours’ help each week with housekeeping, laundry, and meals. Because of advances in technology, today even people who genuinely need twenty-four-hour skilled nursing can get this type of intensive care in their [...]

When people begin to have trouble with cooking or getting around and their families cannot care for them, the knee-jerk reaction is to consider just a nursing home. But a nursing home may not be needed. Surveys show that some nursing-home residents do not need to be institutionalized; they could live in the community if [...]