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The Home Healthcare Boom: Opportunities and Obstacles in India’s Changing Healthcare Landscape

India is currently experiencing a demographic and epidemiological transition characterized by an aging population and an increase in chronic diseases, resulting in a greater demand for home healthcare services. Despite the critical nature and expansion of this area, home healthcare delivery in India...

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Published in:Home Health Care Management & Practice 2024-05, Vol.36 (2), p.134-140
Main Authors: Gupta, Pallavi, Randhawa, Sonali, Nandraj, Sunil
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:India is currently experiencing a demographic and epidemiological transition characterized by an aging population and an increase in chronic diseases, resulting in a greater demand for home healthcare services. Despite the critical nature and expansion of this area, home healthcare delivery in India remains under-researched. There is a dearth of information about the services, providers and organizations that offer services at home. There are various concerns in the provision of home healthcare services. These relate to accessibility and availability, information on providers, regulatory issues, standards of care, costs, safety concerns, and grievance redressal mechanisms for providers and users, which are among the topics discussed in this article. The article concludes that there is a need to recognize the “home” as a place for providing healthcare and as a “workplace” of care providers, develop standardized processes and guidelines for delivering care for different conditions at home, adopt standard human resource practices in deployment of care providers, bring transparency in the calculation of the cost of services and regulation of costs, and establish grievance redressal mechanisms for users, providers, and organizations. Further research is recommended on aspects such as user and provider perspective, training and supervision of providers, and financing, accreditation, and quality of services.
ISSN:1084-8223
1552-6739
DOI:10.1177/10848223231196301