Rationing home care resources: How discharged seniors cope

Home Health Care Services Quarterly

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 31-42

  Livadiotakis, Georgia ^a   Gutman, Gloria ^a   Hollander, Marcus J ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canada; Continuing care; Coping; Discharge; Home support service; Preventive health; Seniors

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AGED; ARTICLE; CANADA; CASE MANAGEMENT; COST CONTROL; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FRAIL ELDERLY; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HOME CARE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIAL WORK;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; BRITISH COLUMBIA; CASE MANAGEMENT; COST CONTROL; FRAIL ELDERLY; HEALTH CARE RATIONING; HOMEMAKER SERVICES; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; PATIENT DISCHARGE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIAL WORK;

EID: 0043205846     PISSN: 01621424     EISSN: 15450856     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J027v22n02_03     Document Type: Article

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