This report presents the finding of a scoping review conducted by the Canadian Research Network for Care in the Community exploring 47 modles of integrating health and social care for older persons.
It also aims to shed light on innovations and successful best practice intitiatives underway across Canada and internationally. The review indentifies fundamental design dimensions of intregrating initiatives and key transferable lessons to help inform policy and practice, and provide guidance to on-going aging at home efforts across jurisdictions.
http://www.crncc.ca/knowledge/related_reports/documents/MappingtheStateoftheArt.pdf
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Thursday, May 14, 2009
Moving Toward Health Service Integration: Provincial Progress in System Change for Seniors
From the CPRN News (Canadian Policy Research Networks News)
In the report Moving Toward Health Service Integration: Provincial Progress in System Change for Seniors, CPRN Senior Research Fellow Dr. Margaret MacAdam reviews the conceptual understandings underlying integrated care for seniors, examines models of cost-effective care, identifies their features and then ascertains to what extent Canadian provinces are implementing these features.
The study consisted of three parts: a literature review and a survey of provincial activity to implement an integrated model for elderly care, which were supported by the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care; and, a roundtable, co-sponsored by CPRN and The Change Foundation. Dr. MacAdam’s report details the research and survey findings and the proceedings of a roundtable held on February 25, 2009 that included the participation of government policy-makers, representatives of community-based service providers and academics.
To read or download Moving Toward Health Service Integration, click here. To read or download Margaret MacAdam’s literature review, Frameworks of Integrated Care for the Elderly: A Systematic Review, click here.
In the report Moving Toward Health Service Integration: Provincial Progress in System Change for Seniors, CPRN Senior Research Fellow Dr. Margaret MacAdam reviews the conceptual understandings underlying integrated care for seniors, examines models of cost-effective care, identifies their features and then ascertains to what extent Canadian provinces are implementing these features.
The study consisted of three parts: a literature review and a survey of provincial activity to implement an integrated model for elderly care, which were supported by the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care; and, a roundtable, co-sponsored by CPRN and The Change Foundation. Dr. MacAdam’s report details the research and survey findings and the proceedings of a roundtable held on February 25, 2009 that included the participation of government policy-makers, representatives of community-based service providers and academics.
To read or download Moving Toward Health Service Integration, click here. To read or download Margaret MacAdam’s literature review, Frameworks of Integrated Care for the Elderly: A Systematic Review, click here.
Monday, May 05, 2008
Frameworks of Integrated Care for the Elderly: A Systematic Review
Published in April, 2008, this report from the Canadian Policy Research Networks looks at the issue of finding efficient and effective ways to care for the elderly. As the baby boom cohort ages, this issue of of growing importance.
Our health system’s central concern has been acute care, that is, treatment of episodes of illness or injury for a short period of time. However, elderly people often have chronic health issues – problems that are long-term and continuing. They may have more than one chronic condition and may need a variety of health and social support services to help them live well. In many cases, appropriate supports can allow those with chronic health issues to live in their own homes rather than in an institution as well as to avoid unnecessary hospital services. But for care to be matched well to individual circumstances, a range of services may need to be coordinated or even, depending on the complexity of the need, “integrated” by pooling resources from multiple systems.
http://www.cprn.org/documents/49813_FR.pdf
Our health system’s central concern has been acute care, that is, treatment of episodes of illness or injury for a short period of time. However, elderly people often have chronic health issues – problems that are long-term and continuing. They may have more than one chronic condition and may need a variety of health and social support services to help them live well. In many cases, appropriate supports can allow those with chronic health issues to live in their own homes rather than in an institution as well as to avoid unnecessary hospital services. But for care to be matched well to individual circumstances, a range of services may need to be coordinated or even, depending on the complexity of the need, “integrated” by pooling resources from multiple systems.
http://www.cprn.org/documents/49813_FR.pdf
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