scholarly journals What Works in Integrated Care Programs for Older Adults with Complex Needs? A Realist Review

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 107
Author(s):  
Jennifer Im ◽  
Maritt Kirst ◽  
Tim Burns ◽  
Jodeme Goldhar ◽  
Patricia O'Campo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Integrated Care ◽  
Realist Review ◽  
Complex Needs ◽  
What Works

scholarly journals What works in implementation of integrated care programs for older adults with complex needs? A realist review

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (5) ◽  
pp. 612-624 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maritt Kirst ◽  
Jennifer Im ◽  
Tim Burns ◽  
G. Ross Baker ◽  
Jodeme Goldhar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Integrated Care ◽  
Realist Review ◽  
Complex Needs ◽  
What Works

Making Meaning of Integrated Care during a Pandemic: Learning from Older Adults

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Elizabeth A. Beasley ◽  
Theresa L. Scott ◽  
Nancy A. Pachana
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Integrated Care ◽  
Making Meaning

scholarly journals Homelessness and integrated care: an application of integrated care knowledge to understanding services for wicked issues

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Clark ◽  
Michelle Cornes ◽  
Martin Whiteford ◽  
Robert Aldridge ◽  
Elizabeth Biswell ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Integrated Care ◽  
Hospital Discharge ◽  
Secondary Analysis ◽  
Policy Issue ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Complex Needs ◽  
Integration Of Services ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Discharge From Hospital ◽  
High Degree

PurposePeople experiencing homelessness often have complex needs requiring a range of support. These may include health problems (physical illness, mental health and/or substance misuse) as well as social, financial and housing needs. Addressing these issues requires a high degree of coordination amongst services. It is, thus, an example of a wicked policy issue. The purpose of this paper is to examine the challenge of integrating care in this context using evidence from an evaluation of English hospital discharge services for people experiencing homelessness.Design/methodology/approachThe paper undertakes secondary analysis of qualitative data from a mixed methods evaluation of hospital discharge schemes and uses an established framework for understanding integrated care, the Rainbow Model of Integrated Care (RMIC), to help examine the complexities of integration in this area.FindingsSupporting people experiencing homelessness to have a good discharge from hospital was confirmed as a wicked policy issue. The RMIC provided a strong framework for exploring the concept of integration, demonstrating how intertwined the elements of the framework are and, hence, that solutions need to be holistically organised across the RMIC. Limitations to integration were also highlighted, such as shortages of suitable accommodation and the impacts of policies in aligned areas of the welfare state.Research limitations/implicationsThe data for this secondary analysis were not specifically focussed on integration which meant the themes in the RMIC could not be explored directly nor in as much depth. However, important issues raised in the data directly related to integration of support, and the RMIC emerged as a helpful organising framework for understanding integration in this wicked policy context.Practical implicationsIntegration is happening in services directly concerned with the discharge from hospital of people experiencing homelessness. Key challenges to this integration are reported in terms of the RMIC, which would be a helpful framework for planning better integrated care for this area of practice.Social implicationsAddressing homelessness not only requires careful planning of integration of services at specific pathway points, such as hospital discharge, but also integration across wider systems. A complex set of challenges are discussed to help with planning the better integration desired, and the RMIC was seen as a helpful framework for thinking about key issues and their interactions.Originality/valueThis paper examines an application of integrated care knowledge to a key complex, or wicked policy issue.

scholarly journals Integrated Care for Older Adults: A Struggle for Sustained Implementation in Northern Netherlands

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Sander Holterman ◽  
Maarten Lahr ◽  
Klaske Wynia ◽  
Marike Hettinga ◽  
Erik Buskens
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Integrated Care
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