Seasons Change, Home Health Care Will Not

Seasons Change, Home Health Care Will Not

Home health care services are of extreme importance in a day and age where nearly 13% of Americans are age 65 and older. Looking at the 2010 census, the population of the United States will be older than it is now in the future, with an age median being driven up by the Baby Boom. With an aging population come increased health issues across the board, as well as a heightened need for daily care and supervision:

"This rapid growth of the older population may present challenges in the next two decades," said Victoria Velkoff, assistant chief for estimates and projections for the Census Bureau's Population Division. "It's also noteworthy that those 85 and older - who often require additional care giving and support - would increase from about 14 percent of the older population today to 21 percent in 2050."

The amount of people requiring home health care and its accompanying support continues to grow . Despite the increased demand for such services , budget cuts throughout the U.S. threaten to drastically reduce the amount of home health care services for the elderly, disabled, and poor.

One example of this situation is in Texas, where many citizens who previously would have been served by home health care services now fear budget cuts will send them to nursing homes : "The jobs barely pay more than minimum wage, but the state budget plans to cut reimbursement by $1 an hour. Some providers said it will run them out of the business," says Dallas local news source WFAA.com.

In Texas, roughly 200,000 citizens depend on state funded home health aides to perform day-to-day tasks and the current budget asks to reduce home health care services funding by $9 billion. Similar cuts are taking place in Nevada, where proposed Medicaid cuts to skilled nursing homes would require closures or layoffs. ?

In Minnesota, the proposed budget would decrease spending on home care and other services for seniors and disabled people, eliminate MinnesotaCare health care for 7,200 working adults and petition the government for permission to cut the Medicaid health plan for those below the poverty line .

Opinions on the cutbacks have created strong feelings from many constituents , rallied protestors, and encouraged those close to the cause to voice their opinions on the importance of health care aids and services.

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