Home & Community Care

Fact Sheets

• Steps to Getting Quality Home Care from an Agency or from a Home Care Worker You Hired
• How to Address Concerns with a Home Health or Home Care Agency or with the Home Care Worker You Hired
• What is Quality Home Care?
• Communication Tips

Other Resources

Piecing Together Quality Long-Term Care: A Consumer’s Guide to Choices and Advocacy - This consumer guide, developed in March 2011, educates people with disabilities and older adults about their options for long-term services and supports and empowers consumers to be self-advocates for quality long-term care. The guide includes tips from consumers as well as information and resources to assist people currently living in nursing homes to move back into the community. The guide is available in several formats, including a a PDF version and audio portions of the guide; a hardcopy is also available for $20.

• Audio Files:
  • Title and Introduction
  • Steps 1 and 2
  • Steps 3, 4 and 5
  • Step 6
  • Step 7

Your Discharge Planning Checklist: For patients and their caregivers preparing to leave a hospital, nursing home, or other health care setting

Tips for People Moving from a Nursing Home Back Into the Community

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