Integrative Care Models

Author(s):  
Erin E. Emery

Chapter 7 discusses integrative care models within geropsychology, including how mental disorders, including depression, anxiety, and substance abuse, frequently co-occur with physical illnesses, either as precipitating or exacerbating factors, and are associated with increased risk of multiple physical health problems and mortality in older adults. It also discusses the Integrated Health Care for an Aging Population (IHCAP) report of 2008, competencies related to integrated care, interprofessional healthcare teams, team development, and the role of the psychologist in integrated care.

2021 ◽  
Vol 186 (Supplement_3) ◽  
pp. 51-52
Author(s):  
Kevin K Chung

ABSTRACT In order to best optimize health care, we need the right combination of individuals working on interprofessional health care teams, each joining with the right mindset, in the right places, and at the right times. In this special issue of Military Medicine, Dr. Lara Varpio and her team share their findings investigating the unique dynamics of Military Interprofessional Healthcare Teams. Such research is fundamental to advance excellence of military health care by finding, exploring, and addressing existing gaps in what we currently employ and capitalizing on what we know works well. In doing so, we can improve the effectiveness of our care teams and, as a result, optimize care of our wounded on the battlefield.


2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 72-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet H. Van Cleave ◽  
Brian L. Egleston ◽  
Sarah Brosch ◽  
Elizabeth Wirth ◽  
Molly Lawson ◽  
...  

Providing affordable, high-quality care for the 10 million persons who are dual-eligible beneficiaries of Medicare and Medicaid is an ongoing health-care policy challenge in the United States. However, the workforce and the care provided to dual-eligible beneficiaries are understudied. The purpose of this article is to provide a narrative of the challenges and lessons learned from an exploratory study in the use of clinical and administrative data to compare the workforce of two care models that deliver home- and community-based services to dual-eligible beneficiaries. The research challenges that the study team encountered were as follows: (a) comparing different care models, (b) standardizing data across care models, and (c) comparing patterns of health-care utilization. The methods used to meet these challenges included expert opinion to classify data and summative content analysis to compare and count data. Using descriptive statistics, a summary comparison of the two care models suggested that the coordinated care model workforce provided significantly greater hours of care per recipient than the integrated care model workforce. This likely represented the coordinated care model's focus on providing in-home services for one recipient, whereas the integrated care model focused on providing services in a day center with group activities. The lesson learned from this exploratory study is the need for standardized quality measures across home- and community-based services agencies to determine the workforce that best meets the needs of dual-eligible beneficiaries.


2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (s2) ◽  
pp. 397
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Wiktorzak ◽  
Anna Kozieł ◽  
Sylwia I. Szafraniec-Buryło ◽  
Andrzej Śliwczyński

2021 ◽  
pp. 183933492110307
Author(s):  
Janet Davey ◽  
Jayne Krisjanous

This conceptual article integrates value co-creation concepts with dimensions of integrated care demonstrating how a marketing framework and a framework originated in health can achieve a beneficial fusion to enhance health outcomes. Using midwifery health care services as the context, we contend that integrated care models focus only on co-production overlooking the complex, value co-creation potential of value-in-use for improved health outcomes. We add four new dimensions of value-in-use: client–provider shared principles, client agency, empowerment, and relationship equality. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, a value co-creation perspective advances our understanding of the activities and processes of integrated care at the various levels in the patient’s lifeworld beyond the patient–carer interface. We argue that adding value-in-use dimensions to health care’s integrated care model adds conceptual clarity and will improve service delivery and patient health care outcomes.


Author(s):  
Vhumani Magezi

The role of communities in health care has gained prominence in the last few years. Churches as community structures have been identified as instrumental in health-care delivery. Whilst it is widely acknowledged that churches provide important health services, particularly in countries where there are poorly-developed health sectors, the role of churches in health care is poorly understood and often overlooked. This article discusses some causes of this lacuna and makes suggestions for repositioning churches for a meaningful contribution to health care. Firstly, the article provides a context by reviewing literature on the church and health care. Secondly, it clarifies the nature of interventions and the competencies of churches. Thirdly, it discusses the operational meaning of church and churches for assessing health-care contributions. Fourthly, it explores the health-care models that are discerned in church and health-care literature. Fifthly, it discusses the contribution of churches within a multidisciplinary health team. Sixthly, it proposes an appropriate motivation that should drive churches to be involved in health care and the ecclesiological design that underpins such health care interventions.


2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (s2) ◽  
pp. 397 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Wiktorzak ◽  
Anna Kozieł ◽  
Sylwia I. Szafraniec-Buryło ◽  
Andrzej Śliwczyński

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (9) ◽  
pp. 1086-1097 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chandler McClellan ◽  
Johanna Catherine Maclean ◽  
Brendan Saloner ◽  
Emma E. McGinty ◽  
Michael F. Pesko

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