All States Offer Medicaid Home Care Through Optional Waiver and State Plan Programs Number of states offering Medicaid home care through various federal programs in 2025 (n = 51) Home care is also ...

KFF estimates that 5.1 million Medicaid enrollees use home care, which provides medical and supportive services to help people with the activities of daily living (such as eating and bathing) and the ...

During the past several decades, state Medicaid programs have expanded the use of home and community-based services, particularly through Section 1915(c) waivers and Section 1115 demonstration waivers ...

Without a clear and explicit definition of HCBS and aging in place, any reforms risk becoming impossible to administer and unacceptably expensive.

SARCOA and Community Care Solutions (CCS) have earned rare double recognition in the federal Health at Home Challenge, a national ...

A consensus definition will not, by itself, solve the challenges facing HCBS. However, common language can support measuring what works; it can facilitate holding programs accountable for helping ...

Finding an aide to help an older person stay at home safely takes work. Here’s a guide. By Reed Abelson Most older Americans want to live at home as long as they can, but finding and affording the ...