The relationship between social and health services in care for older people
The relationship between social and health services in care for older people
Dependent older people with complex needs often require integrated provision of health and social care services. This chapter shows that the huge number of studies, experimentations and polices carried out, so far, internationally, to pursue this goal have proved that there is no single best recipe to meet integrated care needs. Integrated care needs to become a priority at system level because recognizing its importance on the political agenda is an essential pre-condition to pursuing this goal. Policy-makers, however, should not prescribe how to obtain integrated care: they should, instead, respect the idea that integration is local and there will be differences in how it is pursued across different areas. How to arrange the services and how to involve the different professions in order to obtain integration are choices to make locally, the chapter argues, letting local conditions and opportunities to guide the process
Keywords: integrated provision, social care services, health care services, system level, local level
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