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What do we mean by integrated care?
— a European interpretation | | Author(s) | J R Billings |
| Journal title | Journal of Integrated Care, vol 13, issue 5, October 2005 |
| Pages | pp 13-20 |
| Source | http://www.pavpub.com |
| Keywords | Health services ; Services ; Coordination ; Interaction [welfare services] ; European Union ; Europe. |
| Annotation | It is suggested that a common understanding of integrated care between multi-professional staff is vital to prevent barriers to unification and quality of care. This paper examines qualitative data from PROCARE, a recently completed European Union (EU) project on integrated care for older people, to put forward an interpretation of what integrated care means to staff. Through thematic analysis, four main clusters were identified: broad impressions (or definitions); preconditions; practical processes; and threats to realising integrated care. The paper suggests that, while the analysis revealed a common and interrelated European interpretation that was somewhat idealistic and moralistic, this was countered by challenges to its implementation that were inseparable from the rhetoric. The paper suggests that a collective, morally strong understanding is unable to prevent barriers to integrated care, and that tensions between services remain a prominent impediment. PROCARE (Providing Integrated Health and Social Care for Older Persons - Issues, Problems and Solutions) is a project under the EU Fifth Framework Programme, Quality of Life and Management of Living Resources (Area: "The Ageing Population and Disabilities"). (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-051019002 A |
| Classmark | L: I: QAJ: QK6: WFC: 74 |
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