In 2020, the devastating effects of COVID-19 in senior care facilities highlighted what many in the home health industry have known for a long time: home healthcare is an essential option for many of our country’s retirees who may not need or desire long-term residential care.
As we look towards what the future may hold, it’s clear that many home health organizations will be growing as more people opt to age in place.
But, with a global pandemic still affecting the world, vaccine distribution slowed, and the market fluctuating, the industry also faces many challenges.
To manage that growth and meet the challenges ahead, home health organizations will need to focus both on relationship building and on the urgent need for new technology to ease delivery of care. The future “will be all about people and technology,” predicts Andrea Cohen, co-founder and CEO of HouseWorkers.
Josh Klein, CEO of Royal Care and Emerest, agrees. “As we transition out of the COVID-19 pandemic into a normal way of life, we will begin to see the marriage between the ‘old way’ of how traditional home care was done with the ‘new way,’ including technology-process integration.”
Here are the challenges you’ll be facing in the future — and how technology can help you turn them into opportunities.
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Content Team, 14th January 2021