Abstract In homecare, networks are formed by professional, semiprofessional, and informal actors, who collaborate to care for people in need. Modern information communication technology (ICT) might play an important role enhance cooperation homecare networks. Through infrastructuring work, the authors seek build a comprehensive understanding of types collaboration complexity determine if, when ...

RATIONALE The primary setting of palliative care has shifted from inpatient care to patients' residences. Family caregiving is essential for patients with life-limiting illnesses to receive palliative care at home, however little information is available regarding potential interventions to achieve palliative homecare for those without sufficient support from family members in various settings,...

Abstract UK policy discourse presents technology as a solution to challenges facing care services, including issues of quality and the mismatch between workforce supply demand. This characterises ‘transformative’, homogenous wholly positive for delivery, eliding diversity digital devices systems their varied uses. Our paper draws on data gathered through 34 interviews with sector stakeholders f...

Nation-state restructuring has resulted in significant political, economic and social change in rural communities. One manifestation of this transformation has been the changing nature of local governance, characterised by the re-working of central-local relations and public-private responsibilities, such that local informal and voluntary sectors now play an active and direct role in the organi...

PURPOSE OF THE STUDY Little is known about adults' future planning for long-term supports and services (LTSS), and no studies have examined how LTSS planning compares between Baby Boomers and their parents' generation. The primary aim of this study is to examine the potential influences of birth cohort and gender on LTSS planning. Drawing on Andersen's Behavioral Model of Health Services Use, b...

The May 2004 Journal of the American Geriatrics Society reports a study conducted at six Philadelphia academic and community hospitals to determine whether a three-month regime of homecare directed by Advanced Practice Nurses (APNs) would have a significant impact on rehospitalizations and costs over a year with respect to hospitalized patients suffering from heart failure and other comorbid co...

In Italy, the COVID-19 pandemic and its associated lockdowns have provoked potentially serious short long-term consequences for older people with health conditions as well their family caregivers. With closure of adult day-care centres suspension private homecare services, families needed to rearrange care activities many are concerned about situation relatives in residential homes. This articl...