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Plan for Home Bargains and allotments in Inverness

The proposal involves an area of land near Smithton and has been recommended for approval.

Australia's Black Friday 2024 sale is here: Shop the early deals and bargain buys - with up to 70 per cent off beauty, fashion, home, tech and more | Daily Mail Online

With Christmas just weeks away, Aussies can now find the perfect gifts and best bargain buys during the Black Friday sales extravaganza - no matter the budget.

US Regulators Seek to Block UnitedHealth’s $3.3 Billion Purchase of Home Care Company - The New York Times

The Justice Department and four Democratic state attorneys general argued that United’s takeover would limit competition and harm consumers needing home or hospice care. UnitedHealth Group argued that its merger would give consumers more choices. “The Amedisys combination with Optum would be pro-competitive and further innovation, leading to improved patient outcomes and greater access to quality care,” Optum said in a statement.Health|U.S. Regulators Seek to Block UnitedHealth’s $3.3 Billion Purchase of Home Care CompanyAntitrust regulators have been reviewing the proposed acquisition amid a federal inquiry into UnitedHealth’s sprawling dominance across nearly every segment of health care. As one of the biggest U.S.“Unless this $3.3 billion transaction is stopped, UnitedHealth Group will further extend its grip to home health and hospice care, threatening seniors, their families and nurses,” Jonathan Kanter, the assistant attorney general who heads the department’s antitrust division, said in a statement on Tuesday.

How Much Does Child Care Cost? Prices Drop in Chicago, Boston, Atlanta - Bloomberg

Major US cities including Boston, Atlanta and Chicago have seen child-care costs drop, a sign that state-level policies are helping to bring down the soaring price tag for a necessary service for parents. As of September, average child care payments in those places decreased the most year-over-year, according to a recent Bank of America Institute report that examined two dozen large cities.

How Harris’s Medicare Plan Could Make At-Home Care for Older Adults Easier | Scientific American

Harris recently proposed a Medicare plan that would cover at-home health aides and other long-term care services, which could provide much needed relief to older adults and caregivers Navigating long-term health care for older adults is an agonizing challenge faced by millions of people across the U.S. The emotional, physical and financial costs can be overwhelming for older adults who need care and for those who provide it—whether they are professional caregivers or family members.If it passes, at-home aides who provide support for day-to-day activities, such as bathing, cooking and using the bathroom, would be covered for the first time ever by Medicare, the federal health insurance program for adults aged 65 and older and some people with disabilities. The proposal also maps out avenues to improve wages for professional care workers, expand access to remote technologies and telehealth services and cover hearing and vision needs, including hearing aids and eyeglasses.Based on the eligibility criteria of similar proposals, Harris’s plan could potentially help more than 14.7 million of the 67 million people enrolled in Medicare, as well as countless caregivers—but it rides on the results of the upcoming U.S.Demographic studies have found that human population growth is slowing down and family sizes are getting smaller—people have fewer cousins and siblings close in age to them and more relatives who are older. This means people will need to care for aging loved ones with decreasing family support.

Advent, Apollo among potential bidders for Reckitt's homecare assets, Bloomberg News reports | Reuters

Private equity groups Advent International and Apollo Global are among firms considering a potential buyout of consumer goods company Reckitt's homecare assets, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter. Britain-based Reckitt announced plans in July to divest its home care portfolio, which includes Air Wick air fresheners and Cillit Bang cleaner, by the end of 2025.

Home care supply shortage due to mistakes by Ontario Health and Ontario Health atHome, sources say

Ontario Health atHome says it's doing everything it can and is "continuing to look for opportunities to stabilize the delivery of these critical medical items." Recent changes to procurement and delivery systems by two provincial agencies are to blame for an ongoing home-care medical supply shortage in Ontario, sources tell the Star, as patients and their caregivers continue to report they can’t get supplies when they need them.The current shortage stems from three problems introduced when Ontario Health and Ontario Health atHome changed the way supplies reach thousands of patients receiving care at home, according to industry insiders who have knowledge of the home-care medical supplies system but who are not authorized to speak publicly.The first, they say, is that the list of medical supplies and medications needed for home care wasn’t finalized until just before the new procurement and distribution system launched in September, which didn’t provide enough time to secure inventory before the launch.The sources say that both Ontario Health, which oversees health-care delivery in the province, and Ontario Health atHome, which co-ordinates in-home and community-based care, were warned by medical supply and distribution companies that expectations in the new procurement and fulfilment contracts weren’t realistic.

Kamala Harris’s “Medicare at Home” Plan Is Revolutionary. Why Aren’t We Talking About It?

She has a plan to help family caregivers in desperate need of relief. Meanwhile, the Republicans want to torch the Affordable Care Act. We need to start talking about how much pain this plan could save Americans.Advocates have been beating down doors for years trying to get someone to listen to the appeals from elderly spouses and overwhelmed adult children for some respite or relief from what Alzheimer’s activists refer to as “the thirty-six-hour day.” (My family has some, ahem, experience with this.) Estimates from the Alzheimer’s Association hold that some 11 million Americans are supplying unpaid home health care in these situations and that this labor-intensive work is worth an estimated $350 billion.Instead, the elite political press has greeted it with a self-satisfied shrug and moved on to whatever the daily fauxtrage is. Interestingly, though, House Speaker Mike Johnson had some thoughts to share about health care under a second Trump administration, and he shared them with an audience in Pennsylvania.In other words, according to Speaker Moses, the Affordable Care Act, whatever its flaws, seems to be working, and people seem to have become comfortable with it and have come to rely on its benefits, so now it’s time to blow it up in favor of whatever “concepts of a plan” his party’s standard-bearer blurts out from one cozy interview to another.

Buyout Firms Said to Circle Reckitt’s £6 Billion Homecare Assets - Bloomberg

Advent International and Apollo Global Management Inc. are among buyout firms studying a potential acquisition of Reckitt Benckiser Group Plc’s homecare assets, according to people familiar with the matter.