Information and Resources from the U-M Comprehensive Cancer Center

There's No Place Like Home:
A Guide to Home Care Services

Considerations for selecting a home care provider:

  • Availability of 24-hour clinical on-call service
  • Expertise in home nutrition support
  • Availability of a multidisciplinary team, including a dietitian, nurse and pharmacist, to monitor home nutrition support
  • Regular patient contact through telephone calls and correspondence
  • Psychosocial support: contact with local and national organizations for patients on home nutrition support
  • Assistance with reimbursement
  • Reliable, courteous delivery; timely response to questions, changes in supplies or HPN (high-performance nutrition) formula
  • Adherence to 1998 Nutrition Advisory Group guidelines

How to find home care agencies:

  • Your doctor, nurse or social worker can provide information about home care services.
  • Your state or local health department should have a registry of licensed home care agencies.
  • The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has a list of Medicare-approved agencies on its website.

How to finance home care services:

  • Health insurance - coverage varies from plan to plan
  • Medicare
  • Medicaid
  • Payment plan through your hospital or home care agency
  • Your local Area Agency on Aging if you are the right age or have a disability
  • Veterans Affairs (if the disability was caused while on active duty); the home care service will be a VA service
  • Local American Cancer Society chapters, which may have information about equipment for loan

Resources:

For information about U-M Home Care Services, visit www.med.umich.edu/homecare/.

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