Exploring the new frontier: home care gets wired.

The driving forces toward adoption of TeleCare into the non-acute care setting are more compelling than ever before. The dramatic increase in our elderly population, which provides an endless consumer base, availability of functional and affordable technologies, and a national mandate to control costs of health care are forcing even the most skeptical health care decisionmakers to accept TeleCare as a standard model of care. Add to this the most severe nursing shortage to date and the formula is complete.