Looking at the aggressive role by big Pharma in promoting drug use for more and more ailments would be of utmost importance.  
When looking to home care for more situations it's necessary to see who 
will the care givers be and who will give support to them.  It often means
that a wife takes care of elderly parents and an aging husband since women live longer.  So more downloading of stressful work on women when they
often can least afford it after a long life of motherhood and huge response-
bilities on the domestic and work front. 
Promoting home care is easy, but often there is a high price.  We have seen the devastation in the Mental Health field when most psychiatric hospitals were closed down and patients got relegated to substandard living conditions, like boarding houses and many right to  streets and shelters.