ELDirect In-Home Elderly Care history

First studied in 1928, this remained an unresolved policy dilemma in the United States.

During the Great Depression, the United States created an old age pension plan and by 1935, Social Security was passed by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

In 1965, Medicare and Medicaid were created to ensure that seniors would have accessible medical care regardless of their financial situation.

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And from that question, Home Instead was founded in 1994.

The Balanced Budget Act of 1997 drastically slashed Medicare home benefits, and as a result, the number of patient visits were reduced and 3000 home care agencies shut down.

Karen Buhler-Wilkerson, No Place Like Home: A History of Nursing and Home Care in the United States (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001).

A 2004 study found that one in five (22.9 million) United States households were involved in caring for a person older than eighteen.

Karen Buhler-Wilkerson, “Care of the Chronically Ill at Home: An Unresolved Dilemma in Health Policy for the Unites States,” Milbank Quarterly, 85(4) (December 2007): 611-39.

Since 2014, Honor has scaled a home care agency, built a national network of agencies, and developed a technology platform to strengthen the relationship between caregiver and client.

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