Home-Based Long-Term Care

Records the conclusions and recommendations of a study group commissioned to explore the use of home-based care as a strategy for coping with the growing number of individuals in need of long-term care. Addressed to policy-makers the report responds to striking demographic and epidemiological changes that have created an urgent need to expand the availability of cost-effective chronic care. These changes include the growing population of elderly persons and the devastating impact of HIV/AIDS on