Many Americans hope to spend their old age at home, rather than moving into a care facility. When the time comes, they rely on the more than 2 million home health aides who provide day-to-day support.

You need a home health aide to help care for you while you recover. The home health agency providing your care is Medicare-approved or Medicare-certified.

For example, if you find that your home health aide may cost $70,000 per year, it could benefit you to purchase $210,000 in long-term care insurance — or three times your expected annual cost of ...

April Abel, a former home health nurse at Roper St. Francis Healthcare, in the home of a patient, Ron Keur, in Summerville, S.C., in 2022. Desiree Rios/The New York Times ...

Given that Medicaid pays for much of the funding for home health care, Becerra and the Biden administration hope that a new Centers for Medicare and Medicaid rule will rectify the worker shortage by ...