Comprehensive Home Health Care: Recommendations for Action : Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Health and Long-Term Care of the Select Committee on Aging, House of Representatives, Ninety-fourth Congress, First Session, November 19, 1975United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Aging. Subcommittee on Health and Long-Term Care U.S. Government Printing Office, 1976 - 97 pages |
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Page 92 - Notwithstanding the preceding provisions of this paragraph, the term "elderly families'1' includes two or more elderly, disabled, or handicapped individuals living together, or one or more such individuals living with another person who is determined under regulations of the Secretary to be a person essential to their care or well being. (3) The term "development...
Page 80 - home health service" is that component of comprehensive health care whereby services are provided to individuals and families in their places of residence for the purpose of promoting, maintaining, or restoring health, or minimizing the effects of illness and disability. Services appropriate to the needs of the individual patient and family are planned, coordinated and made available by an...
Page 93 - As used in this paragraph, the term "congregate housing" means low-rent housing (A) in which some or all of the dwelling units do not have kitchen facilities, and (B) connected with which there is a central dining facility to provide wholesome and economical meals for elderly families under terms and conditions prescribed by the public housing agency to permit a generally self-supporting operation.
Page 83 - ... (7) any of the foregoing items and services which are provided on an outpatient basis, under arrangements made by the home health agency, at a hospital or...
Page 12 - Counsel for the American Association of Retired Persons and the National Retired Teachers Association.
Page 83 - ... which arose after such transfer and while he was still in the facility for treatment of the condition or conditions for which he was receiving such inpatient hospital services...
Page 27 - Title XIX (Medicaid) and Title XX (Social Services) of the Social Security "Act.
Page 18 - The old adage that you can lead a horse to water, but you cannot necessarily make him drink can be applied to our second indice of linkage incentives.
Page 83 - ... excluding, however, any item or service if it would not be included under subsection (b) if furnished to an inpatient of a hospital. "Post-Hospital Home Health Services...
Page 85 - Home health service is that component of comprehensive health care, whereby services are provided to individuals and families in their place of residence, for the purpose of promoting, maintaining, or restoring health, or of minimizing the effects of illness and disability. Services appropriate to the needs of the individual patient and family are planned, coordinated, and made available by an...