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| An evaluation of the new home-care needs assessment policy in the Netherlands | | Author(s) | Marco Algera, Anneke L Francke, Ada Kerkstra |
| Journal title | Health & Social Care in the Community, vol 11, no 3, May 2003 |
| Pages | pp 232-241 |
| Keywords | Domiciliary services ; Needs [elderly] ; Evaluation ; Social policy ; Netherlands. |
| Annotation | The new style needs assessment in the Netherlands, as regulated by the Needs Assessment Decree, implies that home care needs should be objectively assessed, independent of the availability of care supply and integrally with other types of long-term care. This study is based on data from a postal survey of all Dutch assessment agencies, home care organisations and health insurers. The study shows that all the organisational structures required to realise these goals are present. However, according to factual and evaluative data, many practical aspects of these structures appear to be deficient. The national assessment forms, an instrument for gaining objectivity, are judged impracticable by half of the assessment agencies. Mandating arrangements threaten independent as well as integral needs assessment. Whether the new style assessment is evaluated positively or negatively depends on the type of organisation under study. Whereas assessment agencies are positive about their achievements, home care organisations are generally negative about the functioning and advantage of the new style of needs assessment, with health insurers' opinions somewhere in between. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-030516229 A |
| Classmark | N: IK: 4C: TM2: 76H |
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