Talk:Home care in the United States

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Home care is very often non-medical. Frail elderly requiring help with the daily activities such as bathing, cooking, medication supervision etc.

Spam link

The external link I added to this page was recently deleted by another user named Leuko and labeled spam. I respectfully request a review of this link by another editor, in the hopes that the link can be re-added to the page. While the page is on a commercial website, I don't believe that discredits the content of the page as spam.

I believe the content of this article is relevant and adds value to the topic of Home Care. Instead of an external link, would it make more sense to include this information in the body of the article, with a link to the original source as a reference? I also considered creating a Home Care Bed topic in Wikipedia to explain what a home care bed is and how they work, and put the external link there, but that idea seemed a little ambitious for me at the time. If the consensus is that the proposed external link is inappropriate here, would either of these two ideas be acceptable?

Fauxpaw 20:14, 23 February 2007 (UTC)


 * We always encourage new content. However, a commercial link usually does not meet reliable sources guidelines, and would not be suitable for a reference. OhNo itsJamie Talk 22:26, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

A home care agency - also known as a home care aide agency, non-medical senior care, or personal care - provides services that do not require a licensed professional or a physician's prescription. A home care worker can help a person with activities like remembering to take medications; preparing meals; transferring from chair, toilet or bed; bathing; getting dressed; light housekeeping or transportation to and from doctors' appointments. A home care worker can also provide companionship to an older adult or an adult with a disability - engaging in a favorite hobby, watching movies or simply conversing. see the home care guide

For more information about home care visit www.homecare.com. The content presented on Homecare.com has been developed and approved by eldercare expert Dr. Linda Rhodes, former Pennsylvania Secretary of Aging and author of Finding Your Way: A Guide for Family Caregivers

Re, potential article merge:
I concur - this article should not be merged with Personal Care Assistant, as more than just personal care assistants are involved in home care. However, I do think this article should be split into two - one for home care and another for home health care. Home care is domestic, non-skilled assistance that anyone can buy. Home health care is skilled medical care provided by licenses health care professionals - RNs, LPNs, PTs, OTs, etc - and is generally prescribed by a doctor. A new home health care article should be created as it's its own branch of health care that's distinct from domestic home care. Achrisbroussard (talk) 19:20, 8 November 2011 (UTC)achrisbroussard

I do not believe this article should be merged with the Personal Care Assistant article. Home health (home care) is a type of healthcare system available in the United States and elsewhere. To merge it with Personal Care Assistant is to ignore the fact that this is a care system itself. mheart ( talk ) 04:27, 11 October 2010 (UTC) I also do not believe this article should be merged with the Personal Care Assistant. Home Care encompases a care delivery system including home health and home care (skilled), non-medical home care, as well as personal care assistants who may work within the non-medical home care system or provide private independent care. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bobcatcard78 (talk • contribs) 22:25, 30 June 2011 (UTC)


 * I also don't think this article should be merged with Personal Care Assistant - one is an industry, the other is a role. Given that there has been no opposing viewpoint or discussion on this for two years I will remove the tag from the article header. SeventhHell (talk) 03:47, 4 June 2013 (UTC)

Home Care / Homecare
There is inconsistent use of the phrases "home care" and "homecare". See in particular the section on the UK where it appears as Home Care in the title and then homecare in the first sentence. KMMelvin (talk) 07:44, 23 August 2012 (UTC)KMMelvinKMMelvin
 * See also Talk:Home care in the United Kingdom. Bever (talk) 12:54, 19 June 2020 (UTC)

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Split
Originally, this article was called just Home care. In 2014, the UK part was split off, resulting in Home care in the United Kingdom. In this article, a link to that 'main article' was left. There should have been a summary here, but the call for expansion was removed in 2018.

There was also an India section, but this was removed in 2018. In 2019, the article got the present name, because it focused on the United States, and finally the tiny UK section was removed.

The awkward result was that there is no general article about this subject, as though there was nothing in common at all, the United Kingdom and States were two completely separated worlds and homecare didn't exist anywhere outside these countries. Adding awkwardness, only this US-only article was linked to and from the articles in other Wikipedias. Tonight, I created a small new home care article. It probably can be expanded from the two existing articles. Bever (talk) 00:26, 19 June 2020 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: UCSF SOM Inquiry In Action-- Wikipedia Editing 2022
— Assignment last updated by Nikki98765 (talk) 18:21, 12 September 2022 (UTC)

Peer review: Great additions and edits to the article. It became easier to read (less complexity and wordiness). I also appreciate the additions of state-specific information on California's In-Home Supportive Services. Also, your expansion on the primary patient population that utilizes in-home care is valuable. Great job on the edits made! The information on licensing is important, however, it would be helpful to give statistics or an estimate on what percentage of providers are not licensed or certified. Angelah24 (talk) 01:13, 19 September 2022 (UTC)