Continuing care

The implications impinge on the acute care system, creating backlogs and inappropriate care good or excellent health, based on their perceptions of settings, thereby compromising the quality of care for their general and mental health, functional abilities and 5 patients and the efficiency of the system as a whole. [...] Frail elderly and those with Continuing Care multiple chronic conditions are those most in need of a continuing care system and constitute a growing Continuing care is an integrated mix of health, social portion of the population. [...] Home care involves a wide range of caregivers providing a wide range of services to recipients in their The lack of access to quality continuing care is an homes. [...] This is true, despite the It is not meant to be a replacement or change in the fact that hospital care is six times more expensive than direction of care but rather a necessary support to long-term care ($126.00 per day) and twenty times informal caregivers and recipients who need a break to more expensive than home care ($42.00 daily cost).1 8 be able to continue the existing care arrangement. [...] Under-investment in home care jeopardizes the sustainability of the health care system Research in Canada and abroad indicates that for- as a whole.