Home care services are also the individual-centered care services, and they have a lot of advantages compared with institutional care services in terms of health expenditures and costs, and this proves why those care services are preferred by both individuals and governments.
Although need for care in societies, which happens due to aging, or some other reasons, is under the responsibility of the family many countries seeing recently that the family is being insufficient in meeting the basic care needs of the sick, disabled and elderly, and the family undergoes an increased burden, have been making efforts about developing low costing home care services systems and bringing forth a policy in order to provide overall balance of the role between the government and the family.
Keywords : Long-term of home care services, Long-term care insurance, Elderly, Social security