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Intermediate care
— trendy name or new animal | | Author(s) | Alistair Ritch, Mohammed Ehtisham |
| Journal title | Ageing & Health: the Journal of the Institute of Ageing and Health (West Midlands), no 8, 2002 |
| Publisher | Institute of Ageing and Health, West Midlands, 2002 |
| Pages | pp 7-10 |
| Keywords | Rehabilitation ; Aftercare ; Midlands [England]. |
| Annotation | The concept of intermediate care arose in the mid 1990s as a rather loose and undefined term suggesting some form of transitional care. The first attempts at a definition are contained in reports from the King's Fund, but the lack of a clear-cut vision led the organisation to produce two different definitions in the same document. The one which time has found the most favour and has generally shaped future development is: "an approach to health care designed to facilitate transition from hospital to home and from medical dependence to functional independence, where the objectives of care are not primarily medical, the patient's discharge destination is anticipated, and a clinical outcome of recovery (or restoration of health) is desired. This article considers models of care in the light of findings of the National Beds Enquiry report, "Shaping the future NHS: long term planning for hospitals and related services", and Standard 3 of the National Service Framework for Older People (NSF). Reference is made to a Midlands model of intermediate care, the Richard Lawn Rehabilitation Service. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020725210 A |
| Classmark | LM: LN: 82X |
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