New York resident Rodney Nelson said that his 77-year-old mother receives medical support from her one-bedroom apartment in the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
Under her Medicare plan she is able to have a trained home aide come to visit her daily to help with tasks such as cooking and cleaning, Nelson said. The aide will also check in on Nelson’s mother and provide social support. Every three months, a registered nurse will visit to evaluate her health.
“If she feels she needs to see her nurse sooner, she can call her primary-care physician from her smartphone and that may trigger an earlier evaluation,” Nelson told CNBC.