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Performance-based home care for the elderly — the quality of circumstance protocol
Author(s)	Francis G Caro, Alison S Gottlieb, Clare Safran-Norton
Journal title	Home Health Care Services Quarterly, vol 18, no 4, 2000
Pages	pp 1-48
Source	http://www.tandfonline.com
Keywords	Domiciliary services ; Performance ; Quality of life ; Evaluation ; Pilot ; United States of America.
Annotation	The paper introduces a performance-based protocol for use by case managers in home care programmes. Drawing upon the goal attainment approach to service planning and evaluation, the protocol specifies a set of five observable conditions ranging from the highly desirable to the highly undesirable that correspond to each activity of daily living (ADL) and instrumental activity of daily living (IADL), dimension plus five other dimensions of importance to frail older people living in the community. The conditions documented through the protocol provide a basis for setting explicit expectations of what can be achieved through home care interventions. The paper describes a pilot effort to test the protocol in the Massachusetts state-funded home care programme. Both the protocol's client assessment form and data collection guide are included as appendices. (KJ/RH).
Accession Number	CPA-010314206 A
Classmark	N: 5H: F:59: 4C: 4UC: 7T
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