Today we live in an era where development and innovation are the norms. With an improvement in technology, reaching out to the remote areas of the world is becoming increasingly easier. The rise in the availability and innovations of medical and healthcare facilities has resulted in more and more lives that can be saved.

2. Today we live in an era where development and
innovation are the norms. With an improvement in
technology, reaching out to the remote areas of the
world is becoming increasingly easier. The rise in the
availability and innovations of medical and
healthcare facilities has resulted in more and more
lives that can be saved.

3. However, like every coin, this aspect has a flip side
to it too. The advanced technology comes at
alarmingly skyrocketed costs of everything
including the medical facilities. It is an extremely
steep order for most, especially the elder citizen of
our society.

4. With the onset of old age; humans become
increasingly prone to weakness and ailment. This
calls for necessary medical treatment on a regular
basis. But with limited financial resources such as
pension or personal savings, bearing the costs of
medical treatment, in addition to normal living
expenses, becomes more of a burden than ever
before.

5. Especially in critical cases, the patients and their
families are swamped under a plethora of medical
bills that range from medicines, equipment costs,
room and bed charges to doctor’s fees and other
miscellaneous expenses, not to mention the service
taxes.

6. In such a situation bringing healthcare facilities to their
homes might just be the most cost effective solution,
since the patients and their families can forego the
additional medical costs. Additional charges such as
those of the added expenditure of travelling to and from
any established medical facility are an added nuance to
the medical treatment. Thus, health care at home not
only helps tackle these costs, but also ensures a better
and all round treatment with the patient being the pivot
of all care and attention.

7. The benefits of the practice are not only limited to
cost-effectiveness. They extend way beyond into
dealing with other problems a patient has to face in
a hospital setting. From running the risk of
contracting diseases from fellow patients, to the lack
of intensive individualized emotional, psychological
and physical support and care from doctors, the
possibilities are many.

8. Something that healthcare at home ensures is
individualized care and attention. This is crucial for the
elderly, who are easily susceptible to ailments and
diseases. The health care regime is carried out by trained
health-care professionals, such as the likes of
occupational therapists and physiotherapists. This leads
to a positive effect on the health of the elderly under
care. Also, the chances of contracting infections from
people around them were they in a hospital, is
minimized.

9. Agencies providing health care at home are also
sending a team of doctors, nurses, physiotherapists,
pharmacists and physician assistants to monitor the
growth and recovery of the patient. They also
connect with the family members personally to
administer treatments and medication. They
conduct necessary tests and discuss the reports as
needed, taking into consideration the patient as the
sole recipient of attention and care.

10. The set–up at home is none less than the one in
hospital rooms that monitors the progress of the
patient at every level. Any improvement or
deterioration is closely monitored by the team of
doctors and nurses dedicated solely to the patient.
Therefore, these primary health care professionals
including nurses, therapists, physicians and others,
work as a team in tandem with the patient party to
deliver an efficient health care service, utilizing all
the tools, as necessary.

11. To top it off, the best part of healthcare at home is
precisely that it is from the comfort of home. One
should not underestimate the far reaching
emotional, psychological and physical consequences
of being in a familiar setting and in the midst of
people who love and care for us. At such a critical
stage in life, a bit of moral support might just do the
trick.

12. In this healthcare scheme, instead of the patient party
rallying to get an appointment with a doctor and
rushing to the hospital on fixed dates with the patient,
which may be an almost impossible endeavour for the
elderly people to undertake, the patient party need only
call for a doctor or other personnel of the same field of
work, such as a nurse, for a home visit and receive first
class treatment from the comfort of their homes. Not to
forget, the high class facilities that were only to be seen
in a hospital are extended to the four walls of the home,
with extensive professional care and attention at the
doorstep.

13. Despite the aforementioned benefits, the practice of
health care at home remains a forlorn tale. It is little
recognized in its sheer efforts and the services it
delivers. Its advantages have been overlooked more
often than not and therefore it yet remains a resource
waiting to be tapped. Medical professionals in tandem
with other health care professionals and the patient
party must reach out to provide the best possible
impetus to the practice of health care at home.

14. With the world progressing with leaps and bounds,
the health care industry has not remained behind.
Till yesterday it could have only been a dream to
wish that one received such personalized medical
care at home. With a skewed ratio of doctor to
patient, it was nothing but imaginary. However,
such facility is not only existent, but also responsive
and yields results.

15. Health care at home is an idea that represents how
an ideal health system must function. It must
therefore succeed to meet the six characteristics of
Medicine – safe, timely, patient-centric, efficient,
effective and equitable. With an interdisciplinary
team of professionals devoted to health care, the
revolution is not far away.

16. HCAH India provides following services-
Home Nutrition Services
ICU at Home
Home Physiotherapy Services
Home Pulmonology Services
Home Cardiac Care
Home Oncology Services
Post Surgical Care
Everyday Care
Specialist Services