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What Are Home Care Services? Types of Home Care Explained
Elena and Brooks explain what home care services are, the main types of non-medical home care, how home care differs from home health care, and how Illinois families pay for care.
Home care is non-medical help that lets an older adult keep living at home: personal care, homemaker services, companionship and respite.
Home health care is a separate medical service, such as nursing or therapy, that a doctor orders.
Medicare does not pay for 24-hour care at home or for personal care when that is the only care you need (Medicare.gov, checked October 2026).
Illinois' Community Care Program serves…
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