The family care home model : High impact practice : the family care home model

Building on the momentum of the Home Care Summits and recognizing the potential “ripple effect” of expanding the dissemination beyond the Summit participants, the CHCA has undertaken to document and publicize a selection of these innovative practices from across the country as High Impact Practices. [...] EACH OF THE HIGH IMPACT PRACTICES: • Promotes home care that provides evidence- informed service delivery directed toward the Thank-you to our achievement of health outcomes in the settings that best support the individual, and High Impact Practices Partner… family Comcare Health Services has been a Gold Sustaining Patron • Enhances the effectiveness of home care of the CHCA for over 15 years. [...] Different approaches nity.1 include designing the Family Care Home as an independent suite with regular monitoring and support by the caregiver; The Family Care Home Model is a key component of the or in situations where, for example, the risk of self-harm is community’s capacity to care for and support individuals greater, the level of cognition or the requirement for assis- with ABI. [...] Family Care Homes The support and attention provided by a caring and committed caregiver in VIHA Brain Injury Program a Family Care Home results in im- Although services vary amongst the Health Authorities, the mandate of the provements in a client’s abilities and Brain Injury Programs in BC is to provide access to appropriate needs-based overall health status beyond that which can be achieved in [...] The VIHA tremely high care needs will need other service options of- Brain Injury Program staff (total of seven serving the Island) fered by the Brain Injury Program; others may decline the has focused on the development of the Family Care Home 24 hour supervision and opt for the ‘tenant support pro- Model in order to integrate ABI clients into the community.