Part 1. Workshop summary -- Introduction -- The people who receive and provide home health care -- Home health care tasks and tools -- The environments of home health care -- Concluding discussion -- pt. II. Workshop papers. The health care challenge : matching care to people in their home environments / Neil Charness -- Informal caregivers in the United States : prevalence, caregiver characteristics, and ability to provide care / Richard Schulz and Connie A. Tompkins -- Medical devices in home health care / Molly Follette Story -- Information technology and systems in home health care / Jonathan Sanford -- Impact of cultural, social, and community environments on home care / Steven M. Albert -- Effects of policy, reimbursement, and regulation on home health care / Peter A. Boling -- Appendix A. Workshop agenda and participants.