Seeing statistics like this makes you really think and get nervous about what your clients will be able to afford, and of course what you'll be able to afford to contract for care for your parents.  We at Ankota

 believe that the demographics (more elderly people and less available caregivers) will result in new models of care, such as a combination of caregivers for some hours of the day and tele-monitoring for the other hours (see a blog post about this concept here), or perhaps elderly people will move in with their friends and hire shared caregivers to deal with their needs.  Home care agencies may want to innovate and deliver new services like these or others to differentiate and stay competitive.

A quick note of thanks to Laurie Orlov, our friend and aging in place expert.  I was made aware of the MetLife study through her blog post here.

Ankota provides software to improve the delivery of care outside the hospital.  Today Ankota services home health, private duty care, DME Delivery, RT, Physical Therapy and Home Infusion organizations, and is interested in helping to efficiently manage other forms of care.  To learn more, please visit www.ankota.com or contact Ankota.