Home Health Providers Witness 20 Percent Increase In Demand For Services During Summer

With most people opting to stay in the country during summer, home health service is preferred

Demand for home health services increased by over 20 percent this summer as compared to 2017, according Americare Home Health Services, managed by NMC ProVita International Medical Center.

Summer in the UAE is considered a holiday season, and with most people in the UAE choosing to stay in the country, due to summer surprises on board, Americare witnessed an overall rise in demand for its services for their loved ones who are homebound.

Equipped to offer elite, compassionate healthcare services, Americare offers internationally accredited medical, nursing and therapeutic care that encompasses curative intervention, wellness promotion, rehabilitation, and support, for patients, family members and caregivers with a focus on enhancing quality of life.

With most people opting to stay in the country, home health services offer peace of mind that caretakers need, knowing that their family member is being well cared in the comfort of their own home for when they can’t always be there.

The holiday season involves travel, and also includes several other chores like shopping, cleaning and visiting friends and family. As a sole caretaker for a loved one, it might become difficult to provide round-the-clock qualified care while managing other tasks. As such, many opt for accredited home health services to help with activities of daily living, medication management, and even wound care, which also allows patients and caregivers to spend quality time with one another while their loved ones’ medical needs are taken care of.

Home health service is often viewed as an extension of nursing care, whereby, a patient has an attendant to care for them. However, home health services at Americare makes use of highly sophisticated medical equipment, digital documentation, along with comprehensive care planning and exceptionally well-trained nursing and medical staff under the centralized educational competency programs at NMC ProVita and NMC Healthcare network providing the highest quality, step-down care for loved ones.

Bringing the JCI accreditation processes and quality protocols to all its operations, Americare extends post-acute continuum of care for patients under NMC ProVita umbrella, allowing patients to recover with their families with centralised and uninterrupted care along their health journey.

Home health services offers patients the care in the comfort of their own home, a great option for stable patients able to reconnect with their communities. Daughter of Americare patient Ms. Mariam states, “I simply cannot fault the level of palliative care my mother received in her final days. It was very important to us as a family that she should remain in her own home until the very end, and the compassion and love which the Americare nurses showed to her really made the whole experience much less distressing for both her and us, her children.” In addition, these services are cost-effective to the local healthcare system, and also offers great patient satisfaction, enhanced patient compliance and proactive care, leading to an increase in demand for the service.

A report on Global Home Healthcare Market published by Zion Market Research states that the global demand for home healthcare market was valued at USD 228.90 billion in 2015 and is expected to generate revenue of USD 391.41 billion by 2021, growing at a CAGR of 9.40 percent between 2016 and 2021.  Experts suggest that by 2020, $3.5-4.8 billion could potentially be spent on home health care services across the GCC, with significant growth expected in the area of mobile health apps and home-based diagnostic and physiotherapy services.

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