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| Goals of home care: therapeutic, compensatory, either or both? | | Author(s) | Rosalie A Kane |
| Journal title | Journal of Aging and Health, vol 11, no 3, August 1999 |
| Pages | pp 299-321 |
| Keywords | Domiciliary services ; Home nursing ; Policy ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | In this article, home care goals are classified into two broad categories: therapeutic goals, in which home care providers strive for measurable improvement on parameters of physical, psychological, or social functioning and compensatory (or empowering) goals, in which home care providers seek to provide services to compensate for functional impairment in order to enable consumers to pursue their own goals. Therapeutic goals are loosely associated with "medical models" of care and compensatory goals with "social models". The author argues that therapeutic and compensatory goals are important from a consumer perspective, and artificial distinctions between the two should be eliminated. However, this merger should be effected in such a way that therapeutic approaches can be incorporated into programmes with relatively low unit costs. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990826238 A |
| Classmark | N: N4: QAD: 7T |
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