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What is intermediate care?
— Looking at needs | | Author(s) | Pam Enderby, Jan Stevenson |
| Journal title | Managing Community Care, vol 8, issue 6, December 2000 |
| Pages | pp 35-40 |
| Keywords | Rehabilitation ; Aftercare ; Needs [elderly] ; Sheffield. |
| Annotation | Although the term "intermediate care" has become widely used, it tends to mean different things to different people. Intermediate care as defined by the King's Fund emphasises that it should incorporate a range of services designed to facilitate the transition for hospital to home, and from medical dependence to functional independence - and where the objectives of care are not primarily medical. This article outlines an approach used in Sheffield, based on eight categories of need ranging from prevention or maintenance to rehabilitation for complex difficulties. The authors conclude that managing operational change using a whole-systems approach will be the key to re-engineering rehabilitation services, including intermediate care for older people. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-010131218 A |
| Classmark | LM: LN: IK: 85C |
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