Is the House Call Doctor Coming Back?
When Simon Jacobsen’s aging mother needed to see a doctor, she first had to descend the stairs – a journey that once left her with a broken neck. After that, Jacobsen and his father carried her down themselves, but their method was hardly graceful.
“We were just a couple of gorillas doing the best we could,” says Jacobsen, a 49-year-old who lives in the District of Columbia. Meanwhile, the care his mom received was fragmented, time-consuming and physically and emotionally exhausting for the entire family.