Investigator
- Tor Wainwright, Foxley Fellow
Supported by the Health Research Council
Abstract
This is a literature review on:
- The effectiveness of home-based services as an alternative to acute hospital care and to long-term residential care, and
- Ways of funding and organising home-based services to achieve better co-ordination and best use of resources (with a focus on services for older people),
together with:
- A description of the development of home care services in New Zealand, in the context of services for older people, and
- Some proposals for how New Zealand could use overseas experience to better plan home care relative to acute hospital care and longterm residential care.
The report aims to be a useful resource document for health planners, focussing on:
- The practical resource allocation issues facing District Health Boards (eg is hospital-at-home worth doing? should long-term home-support be increased? etc)
- Summarising the key work being done elsewhere, with hyperlinks to enable the reader to go straight to the referenced activity.