Patients & Families

The National Alliance for Care at Home (the Alliance) is a membership association representing providers of a wide variety of home-based care services, including personal, home health, hospice, and palliative care. Learn about each type of care the Alliance represents below.

Home Care

Home care provides supportive services for individuals young and old, helping them live full, independent, and connected lives in the comfort of wherever they call home. Home care can include medical and non-medical support.

Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services

Medicaid home and community-based services (HCBS) are a wide range of services and supports provided in a home or community setting. In Medicaid, HCBS are available to many individuals with significant health conditions and/or functional limitations and cover a wide range of supports such as home health, rehabilitation, transportation, nutrition, employment supports, and more.

Home Health Care

Home health care is medical and supportive services provided in a patient’s home to help them manage their health conditions, recover from illness or injury, or prevent hospitalization. It is usually less expensive, more convenient, and at least as effective as care you get in a hospital or skilled nursing facility.

Hospice Care

Considered to be the model for quality, compassionate care for serious or life-limiting illness or injury, hospice care involves a team-oriented approach to end-of-life care, pain management, and emotional and spiritual support expressly tailored to patient and family needs and wishes.

Palliative Care

Palliative care is patient and family-centered care that optimizes quality of life by anticipating, preventing, and treating pain and suffering. Palliative care can be provided throughout the care continuum and addresses physical, intellectual, emotional, social, and spiritual needs and facilitates patient autonomy and access to information and choice.