Home-based care

Examples of Home-based care in the following topics:

• Child Care

  • If a parent or extended family is unable to care for the children, orphanages and foster homes are a way of providing for children's care, housing, and schooling.
  • The two main types of child care options are center-based care and home-based care.
  • In-home care typically is provided by nannies, au-pairs, or friends and family.
  • Depending on the number of children in the home, the children utilizing in-home care enjoy the greatest amount of interaction with their caregiver, forming a close bond.
  • Analyze the different types of child care in the United States, from parental care to center-based care

• The "Sandwich Generation" and Elder Care

  • This broad term encompasses such services as assisted living, adult day care, long-term care, nursing homes, hospice care, and in-home care.
  • Given the choice, most elders would prefer to continue to live in their own homes.
  • Unfortunately, the majority of elderly people gradually lose functioning ability and require either additional assistance in the home or a move to an eldercare facility.
  • One relatively new service in the United States that can help keep the elderly in their homes longer is respite care.
  • This type of care allows caregivers the opportunity to go on vacation or a business trip and know that their elder has good quality temporary care.

• Aging

  • For example, most societies have a generally accepted age of retirement (based on both societal norms as well as a country's tax laws and pension rules) after which point an individual ceases to engage in employment.
  • The rest of society typically assumes some level of responsibility in ensuring that the elderly are cared for.
  • Some of the main reasons why elders are less likely to be taken care of exclusively by their families include the decreasing size of families, the increased longevity of the elderly, the geographic dispersion of families, and the fact that women have become more educated and commonly work outside the home.
  • The various forms that elderly care services can take include assisted living, adult day care, long-term care, nursing homes, hospice care, and in-home care.
  • The different institutions can further be classified as medical (skilled) care and non-medical (social) care.

• Day Care

  • Day care, in which children are cared for by a person other than their legal guardians, contributes to their socialization.
  • Child care is provided in nurseries or crèches, or by a nanny or family child care provider caring for children in their own homes.
  • The day care industry is a continuum from personal parental care to large, regulated institutions.
  • Some advocate that day care is inherently inferior to parental care.
  • Early childhood education is the formal teaching and care of young children by people other than their family in settings outside of the home.

• Health Disparities

  • Industrial pollutants and lead-paint, common in older homes, can both lead to increased incidents of disease.
  • Similarly, gender and sexual minorities are more likely to be displaced from their homes at earlier ages (e.g., with less symbolic and economic capital) than other members of society.
  • There are a number of ways in which health disparities play out based on different systems of stratification.
  • As noted above, researchers also find health disparities based on gender and sexual stratification.
  • Health disparities based on race also exist.

• Civil Rights of the Elderly

  • Roosevelt's Social Security Act funded medical care for aging Americans.
  • This legislation specifically sought to provide equal opportunity for the enjoyment of adequate income in retirement, adequate health care, housing, long-term care, recreation, community services, freedom and self-determination, and protection against abuse, neglect, and exploitation.
  • This law forbids employment discrimination against anyone who is at least 40 years old in the United States; the denial of benefits based on age; mandatory retirement; and prohibits statements of age preferences in job notices or advertisements.

• Health Care Policy

  • Health care in the United States is provided by many distinct organizations.
  • Health care facilities are largely owned and operated by private sector businesses.
  • Of each dollar spent on health care in the United States, 31% goes to hospital care, 21% goes to physician/clinical services, 10% to pharmaceuticals, 4% to dental, 6% to nursing homes and 3% to home health care, 3% for other retail products, 3% for government public health activities, 7% to administrative costs, 7% to investment, and 6% to other professional services (physical therapists, optometrists, etc.).
  • Preventive care is typically provided to many people who would never become ill, and for those who would have become ill, it is partially offset by the health care costs during additional years of life.
  • Public spending accounts for 45% to 56.1% of U.S. health care spending.

• Defining Health, Health Care, and Medical Care

  • Health care economics is a segment of economic study pertaining to the value, effectiveness, and efficiency in health care services.
  • Health care economics is a segment of economic study pertaining to the value, effectiveness, and efficiency in medical care and health care services and issues.
  • Health care is a significant concern for patients, insurance companies, governments, businesses, health care providers, researchers, and non-profits.
  • Health (Box B): Health metrics for health attributes from a value of life and overall utility-based perspective.
  • Demand for Health Care (Box C): The overall health care demand, which is a complex array of inputs that can be summarized as health care seeking behaviors, and what factors influence them (i.e. externalities, price, time, perspectives, etc.).

• Channels for Consumer Goods

  • In the case of medical care, the channel mechanism may consist of a local physician, specialists, hospitals, ambulances, laboratories, insurance companies, physical therapists, home care professionals, and so forth.
  • Based on this relationship, a marketing channel can be defined as "sets of interdependent organizations involved in the process of making a product or service available for use or consumption, as well as providing a payment mechanism for the provider. " This definition implies several important characteristics of the channel.

• Working from Home or Online

  • Thus, even among home based franchises, start up costs can vary greatly.
  • One important factor leading to the record number of franchises in recent years is the proliferation of home based franchise opportunities.
  • With home based opportunities, you clear away the need to invest in a real business space by using your present home as a base of operations instead.
  • In fact, even experienced businesspeople can fail with a successful franchise when they do not choose the right home based opportunity.
  • For example, if you have been an avid angler all your life, you should consider home based fishing franchise prospects.