Integrated Care for Frail Elderly: A Qualitative Study of a Promising Approach in The Netherlands

Increasingly, frail elderly need to live at home for longer, relying on support from informal caregivers and community-based health- and social care professionals. To align care and avoid fragmentation, integrated care programmes are arising. A promising example of such a programme is the Care Chain...

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Hauptverfasser: Hoedemakers, Maaike, Leijten, Fenna Ruby Marie, Looman, Wilhelmijn, Czypionka, Thomas, Kraus, Markus, Donkers, Hanneke, van den Hende-Wijnands, Esther, van den Broek, Nicole M.A., Rutten-van Molken, Maureen
Format: Article in Academic Journal PeerReviewed info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Ubiquity Press 2019
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Zusammenfassung:Increasingly, frail elderly need to live at home for longer, relying on support from informal caregivers and community-based health- and social care professionals. To align care and avoid fragmentation, integrated care programmes are arising. A promising example of such a programme is the Care Chain Frail Elderly (CCFE) in the Netherlands, which supports elderly with case and care complexity living at home with the best possible health and quality of life. The goal of the current study was to gain a deeper understanding of this programme and how it was successfully put into practice in order to contribute to the evidence-base surrounding complex integrated care programmes for persons with multi-morbidity.