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Community-based care: back to the future!

M L Stricklin
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Home- and community-based care are deeply rooted in the United States and worldwide. Public and private organizations have provided formal in-home and community health services for more than a century. Today they are an integral part of the care continuum, ranging from highly technical and professional services to simple forms of non-professional and voluntary support in homes. Because the roles and functions of community workers have expanded and diversified, organizations must successfully recruit, train and support workers with widely differing skills. In health care's new economic era, health has re-emerged as a community rather than individual concern. Non-traditional models of service delivery will be the cornerstone of community-based health care. Providers and policy-makers must find new ways to refocus from treating illness to achieving and maintaining health.

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M L Stricklin. 1997. Community-based care: back to the future!. https://doi.org/10.3109/09638289709166522

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