FrontMatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Part I: Workshop Summary -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The People Who Receive and Provide Home Health Care -- 3 Home Health Care Tasks and Tools -- 4 The Environments of Home Health Care -- 5 Concluding Discussion -- Part II: Workshop Papers -- 6 The Health Care Challenge: Matching Care to People inTheir Home Environments--Neil Charness -- 7 Informal Caregivers in the United States: Prevalence, Caregiver Characteristics, and Ability to Provide Care--Richard Schulz and Connie A. Tompkins -- 8 Medical Devices in Home Health Care--Molly Follette Story -- 9 Information Technology and Systems in Home Health Care--George Demiris -- 10 The Physical Environment and Home Health Care--Jonathan Sanford -- 11 Impact of Cultural, Social, and Community Environments on Home Care--Steven M. Albert -- 12 Effects of Policy, Reimbursement, and Regulation on Home Health Care--Peter A. Boling -- Appendix: Workshop Agenda and Participants.