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Coordinating health, extended care, and community support services
— reforming aged care in Australia | | Author(s) | Michael D Fine |
| Journal title | Journal of Aging & Social Policy, vol 11, no 1, 1999 |
| Pages | pp 67-90 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Health services ; Community care ; Services ; Coordination ; Social policy ; Australia. |
| Annotation | Under pressure to maximise the cost-effectiveness of programmes, efforts to improve co-ordination have become increasingly central to the development of the broader health and welfare service delivery system in Australia. This article reviews recent experience in two related fields. First, the co-ordination of different community care services for older people and people with disabilities, funded by the Home and Community Care programme. Second, the attempt to enhance links between community and residential care services, hospitals and other health care providers. Measures that have been introduced or are proposed to improve co-ordination of services are briefly reviewed: individualistic approaches based on information and referral; gatekeeping, case management, or brokerage; and reconfiguring structures, linkages and finances. These models are not mutually exclusive, and are likely to be applied in more complex mixed models of service co-ordination. It is argued that co-ordination at the level of direct service provision is difficult if government policies that direct services lack co-ordination. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-000608223 A |
| Classmark | L: PA: I: QAJ: TM2: 7YA |
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