Browsing Omsorgsbiblioteket by Journals "Health & Social Care in the Community"
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A comparison of the home-care and healthcare service use and costs of older Australians randomised to receive a restorative or a conventional home-care service
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)Restorative home-care services, or re-ablement home-care services as they are now known in the UK, aim to assist older individuals who are experiencing difficulties in everyday living to optimise their functioning and ... -
A randomised controlled trial of the Home Independence Program, an Australian restorative home-care programme for older adults
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)A randomised controlled trial was conducted to test the effectiveness of the Home Independence Program (HIP), a restorative home-care programme for older adults, in reducing the need for ongoing services. Between June 2005 ... -
Driving forces for home-based reablement: a qualitative study of older adults’ experiences
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)As a result of the ageing population worldwide, there has been a growing international interest in a new intervention termed ‘reablement’. Reablement is an early and time-limited home-based intervention with emphasis on ... -
Factors associated with the amount of public home care received by elderly and intellectually disabled individuals in a large Norwegian municipality
(Journal article, 2016)This study reports an analysis of factors associated with home care use in a setting in which long‐term care services are provided within a publicly financed welfare system. We considered two groups of home care recipients: ...