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| What does community care research tell us about community care in Australia? | | Author(s) | A Howe |
| Journal title | Australian Journal on Ageing, vol 16, no 3,, 1997 |
| Pages | pp 120-126 |
| Keywords | Community care ; Social policy ; Research Reviews ; Australia. |
| Annotation | A critical appraisal of 21 studies of community care conducted in Australia between 1990 and 1995 provides the basis for assessing the account of community care presented in recent research. Several aspects of the policy and programme context in which the Home and Community Care (HACC) programme operates give rise to great diversity in community care, and its design and methodology. Review of coverage of the HACC client population in research, the range of services studied, and outcomes investigated shows, however, that findings fall short of giving a representative account of community care. The focus on outcomes relating to admission to residential care in particular is seen to prescribe too narrow a view of the range of outcomes achieved by community care. The need to recognise a wider range of outcomes is identified as fundamental to strengthening the contribution that research can make to the development of community care in Australia and other countries. |
| Accession Number | CPA-971014245 A |
| Classmark | PA: TM2: 3A:6KC: 7YA |
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