Home care in Canada : Soins à domicile au Canada : de l'exclusion à l'intégration

Home care clients obtain such care • explores the home care landscape in for three reasons: acute care substitution, Canada with the purpose of broadening long-term care substitution, and prevention awareness, stimulating debate and and maintenance. [...] Health and Welfare Canada, in 1990, de fined home care in terms of its three key functions: • acute care substitution, where home care meets the needs of people who would otherwise have to remain in, or enter, acute care facilities; • long-term care substitution, where home care meets the needs of people who would otherwise require institutionalization; and • maintenance and prevention, whereby pe [...] Evelyn Shapiro, the leading force behind home care in Manitoba, notes that “home care is a front-line but not a primary health service, and it is a unique blend of health and non-medical support services.”11 Home care differs according to the needs of the individual. [...] The ability of governments to choose the 2) In British Columbia, New Brunswick number and types of services and the and Newfoundland and Labrador, all delivery models means that home care is professional services are delivered by vulnerable to cyclical funding and political public employees, but home support changes. [...] The IACS also focuses on providing training and an overview of each province and territory’s educational opportunities, such as in basic tracheostomy visions and targets for home care, and care and vascular access (ports and picc lines), to selected activities to expand access to home those who care for children and youth in the home or community.