Home Care Knowledge Network
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Canadian Home Care Association
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Explore the Knowledge Centre to find tools, educational modules, and informative reports to address over 70 identified home care challenges. Choose the home care principle, select a specific policy or program issue and download the resource.
The Home Care Knowledge Network is a way for policy, program and frontline decision-makers to access tools and resources, and share ideas that will address home care challenges. Through the Knowledge Network, health ministries, home care policy planners, administrators and service providers can:
- Accelerate the development and implementation of policies and programs
- Share experiences and resources within a jurisdiction and across the country
- Learn about and access promising practices that address local issues
HARMONIZED PRINCIPLES FOR HOME CARE
Patient and Family- Centered Care
Patients and their carers are at the centre of the planning and delivery of care… more
Accessible Care
Patients and their carers have equitable and consistent access to appropriate care… more
Accountable Care
Patient, provider and system outcomes are managed, met and reported on… more
Evidence-Informed Care
Patients receive care that is informed by clinical expertise, patient values and best available research evidence… more
Integrated Care
Patients’ needs are met through coordinated clinical and service-level planning and delivery across multiple professionals and organizations… more
Sustainable Care
Patients whose needs can be reasonably met in the home will receive the services and support to do so… more
HOME CARE IN CANADA – Home care is an array of services for people of all ages, provided in the home and community setting, that encompasses health promotion and teaching, curative intervention, end-of-life care, rehabilitation, support and maintenance, social adaptation and integration and support for caregivers. Provincial, territorial and federally funded home care services are administered by care coordinators or case managers and delivered by regulated health care professionals as well as non-regulated health care workers (e.g. home support, personal care attendants).
LES SOINS À DOMICILE AU CANADA – Les soins à domicile consistent en un éventail de services destinés à des personnes de tous âges et administrés en milieu résidentiel et communautaire qui incluent la promotion et l’éducation en matière de santé, les interventions curatives, les soins de fin de vie, la réhabilitation, le soutien et l’entretien, l’adaptation et l’intégration sociale, ainsi que le soutien aux aidants. Les services de soins à domicile financés par les gouvernements provinciaux, territoriaux et fédéraux sont administrés par des coordonnateurs de soins ou des gestionnaires de cas et fournis par des membres d’une profession de la santé réglementée et des travailleurs de la santé non réglementés (travailleurs en soutien à domicile, préposés aux soins personnels, etc.).
