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Health: Home and Continuing Care
Homecare and continuing care refers to a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, including: counselling; psychotherapy; individual and group therapy; partial hospitalization (day treatment programs); acute home treatment (as an alternative to acute hospitalization); specialty services in both the community and psychiatric units/facilities; forensic psychiatry; and shared care. To successfully assist clients organizations take part in what is called shared mental health care. This refers to a broad spectrum of collaborative activities between primary health care providers and psychiatrists or other community-based mental health care providers.

In the past, continuing care services for people who require support services focused on facility-based programs such as nursing homes and auxiliary hospitals. In recent years, there has been significant development in the delivery of services to support individuals to remain in their homes, or in community-based... supportive living residences.

An individual that is aging or is experiencing mental or physical illness, for example, often faces unsupportive and stressful circumstances – poverty and unemployment. If discharged from formal care without continuing or home care they are likely to experience more setbacks, crises and hospital readmissions than a person with a strong support system.

Continuing care and home care is typically delivered by voluntary organizations to vulnerable groups such as the elderly, the mentally ill, the physically disabled, and individuals that have been discharged from corrections facilities. They provide supports and services such as: transitional residence; counseling services; links to affordable apartments; home care health services; case management, psychiatric rehabilitation, family care for adults; employment programs, boarding homes and group homes.

AUTHOR: Power, Asetha (2008) Homeless Hub. [Show More][Show Less]


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A Canadian Homelessness Research Network (CHRN) initiative. The CHRN has received financial support from the Government of Canada’s Homelessness Partnering Strategy and the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada