Bridging The Home-Based Primary Care Gap In Rural Areas

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Discusses challenges with offering home-based primary care (HBPC) in rural communities for older adults and people with disabilities, notably workforce shortages, insufficient infrastructure, and funding. Offers HBPC redesign suggestions with these challenges in mind, discussing community health workers, technology and telehealth, leveraging community resources and partnerships, training, scope of practice laws, payment models, and infrastructure investments.

Ginny Rogers, Montgomery Smith, Jonathan Gonzalez-Smith, Robert S. Saunders

Health Affairs Forefront

02/2024

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Accountable Care Organizations · Community health workers · Funding · Health workforce education and training · Health workforce supply and demand · Home and community-based services · Infrastructure · Networking and collaboration · Reimbursement and payment models · Scope of practice · Technology for health and human services · Telehealth