Glossary Of Terms - H
Home and Community-Based Care
Long Term Care that is provided in your home by a Home Health Care Provider; in Your Home by an Independent
Caregiver; or in an Adult Day Care center.
Home Care Services
Household services done by someone other than yourself because you’re unable to do them. Services
include, but are not limited to, nursing services, personal care, homemaker or chore services, shopping,
planning menus, preparing meals, home delivered meals, laundry, and light house cleaning and maintenance.
Home Delivered Meals
Also known as meals-on-wheels, provides meals to those not able to prepare their own food.
Home Health Care Provider
An entity which provides home health care or Hospice Services and:
1. Has an agreement as a provider of home health care services or Hospice Services under the Medicare
program; or
2. Is licensed or accredited by state law as a home health care agency or hospice, if such licensing
or accreditation is required by the state in which the care is received; or
3. Is a licensed therapist, a registered nurse (R.N.), a licensed practical nurse (L.P.N.), or a licensed
vocational nurse (L.V.N.) operating within the scope of his or her license.
Home health care services include services provided by a medical social worker, home health aide, homemaker,
and similar services.
Homemaker services
Basic services provided in the home to help a person with a chronic illness or disability to be as
independent as possible. These services may include housekeeping, cooking, transportation, and shopping.
Hospice Services
Outpatient services provided by a licensed hospice that are designed to ease the pain of the physical,
emotional, social, and spiritual discomforts of an individual who is experiencing the last phases of life
due to the existence of a terminal disease, and to provide supportive care to the primary caregiver and
the family. Care may be provided by a skilled or unskilled person under a Plan of Care.
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