Since the mid-1960s, home health care has evolved from being
1. A function of public health departments and visiting nurse associations to being provided by hospital-based agencies and proprietary institutions.
2. Largely dependent on nonnurse health care practitioners to being composed of skilled nursing care.
3. Provided mostly by proprietary agencies to being provided by nonprofit agencies.
4. The responsibility of family members to being the responsibility of insurers.
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