September 3, 2024

At HCCI, we believe that access to quality care is essential for healthy aging, and it's a key part of our mission to ensure that older adults can age with dignity and independence. Each September, the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion celebrates Healthy Aging Month.

Healthy Aging Month is a time to focus on the positive aspects of growing older and encourage individuals to embrace a proactive approach to their health and well-being. This month highlights the importance of maintaining a healthy lifestyle as we age, emphasizing the value of regular physical activity, balanced nutrition, mental health care, and staying socially connected. It serves as a reminder to take steps towards preventive healthcare, engage in enriching activities, and prioritize self-care to ensure vitality and independence (which includes aging in place) well into later years. Healthy Aging Month inspires people of all ages to take charge of their health, set new wellness goals, and embrace aging as an opportunity for growth and fulfillment.

HCCI supports Healthy Aging Month by promoting home-based primary care that empowers seniors to age in place with dignity, ensuring access to quality healthcare and personalized support for maintaining their health and independence. How can you join this mission?

• Increase access to home-based primary care by donating to HCCI

• Refer healthcare providers and practices to HCCI

Our new platform, HCCI Connect™, is live! HCCI Connect™ is an online platform designed to bridge the gap between home-centered care practices and providers and the products, services, and associations they need to succeed.

HCCI Connect™ is here to revolutionize how organizations reach and engage with home-centered care providers across the nation and advances HCCI’s mission to make house calls more accessible to those in need.

Looking to find innovative new resources or boost your brand’s visibility? HCCI Connect™ is great for both providers and practice directors as well as organizations who want to showcase their offerings in the home healthcare space.

For Providers & Practice Directors:

• Find Solutions: Discover essential products and services to help you improve your patient care, grow your practice, and more.

• Expand Your Network: Connect with relevant professional associations to broaden your reach, enhance your professional network, and gain new opportunities.

For Sponsors:

• Prime Exposure: Gain powerful visibility for your brand with an audience of home-centered care providers, practices, health systems, and others across the field.

• Engaged Audience: Showcase your product, service, or association for a targeted, knowledgeable audience that is actively seeking solutions like yours.

Interested in showcasing your offerings on HCCI Connect™? HCCI is offering exclusive introductory rates on corporate sponsorship for a limited time. Learn more about sponsorship opportunities or schedule a call to see how you can get involved in this groundbreaking community committed to better care.

The issue of unpaid family caregivers was noted in Part IV of The Transformative Impact of House Calls series. According to Psychology Today, the work of unpaid family caregivers in the U.S. is valued at $600 billion annually. A survey from S&P Global and AARP shared the stressors and sacrifices that caregivers experience:

• 67% of family caregivers have difficulty balancing their jobs with caregiving duties.

• 27% of working caregivers have shifted from full-time to part-time work and 16% have turned down a promotion.



• 16% have stopped working entirely for a period — and 13% have changed employers — to meet caregiving responsibilities.

At HCCI, we believe that the future of healthcare is in the home. This vision includes support for caregivers, too. And these caregivers and their sacrifices are finally being seen. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released their GUIDE model this year, including support for caregivers. The National Academy for State Health Policy also just released a new State Policy Resource Guide.

How can you help ensure that this momentum continues?

• Share HCCI’s resources for Patients, Families, & Caregivers.

• Support HCCI by becoming an HCCInsider™, our monthly donor program.