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Home and community-based care
 — the US example
Author(s)Joan F Van Nostrand
Journal titleCanadian Journal on Aging, vol 15, supplement 1, Autumn 1996
Pagespp 91-102
KeywordsHome nursing ; Community care ; Family care ; United States of America.
AnnotationAlthough long-term care (LTC) has been treated in the literature largely as an institutional issue, this paper focuses on home and community based care. It deals with an overview of LTC in the US, followed by the evolution of and trends in home- and community-based care and their sources. A summary of home-care arrangements is followed by a description of the type of data available on disabled older people and their use of such care.
Accession NumberCPA-970212031 A
ClassmarkN4: PA: P6:SJ: 7T

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